at 8am.
Last night, I was in the tub looking at my stomach thinking……i really have GOT to lay off the McDs, cokes, cheesecake binges………you get the point. I promised myself I would be very careful from falling into the McDonald’s trap when I dropped Charlotte off in the morning.
HOWEVER, I had a free Extra Value Breakfast meal that I won off a coke yesterday and it couldn’t hurt to use it…I mean, it was going to expire in November.
So I drop Charlotte off (who incidentally says her stomach hurts this morning, we put her to bed with no dinner because she refused to eat what we were eating, which was just chicken parmesan and noodles, pears, and steamed vegis-NOT poison as she claims) at school and go over there. I decide to go inside. I never, ever go inside, especially in the morning, but I didn’t want to yell through the thing that my meal was free, so I just decided to go in and give it to them.
I pick out the sausage burrito wraps, hash-brown, and soda I am addicted to and get it and am walking out back to my car. Then a homeless guy approaches me. “Ma’am, do you have any change you can give me?” Now, truly, it must be hard to be homeless in today’s day and age, because its all credit cards and debit cards. I don’t even carry a purse. Scratch that. I don’t even OWN a purse. Sometimes I see a quarter and its one I have never seen before. That’s how little cash I carry.
I just looked at him and handed him my bag and said, “I don’t have change, but you can have my breakfast. But you cant have my coke, because I’m addicted to caffeine and ill get a headache.” (I’m sure he needed to know that, right?) He was pretty grateful.
After I left I thought, I should have peeled off my McDonalds Monopoly things, what if that was the 1million dollar sticker? Oh well, I am pretty blessed to even get into a car and go home to a house (with heat on because its 39 outside), so even if it was, I suppose it wasn’t meant for me.
Talk about God telling me to put back the McDonalds today, huh.
That was very nice of you!! I’m sure he appreciated it!!
Wow! Way to go karma! So glad you won and that you’ll be able to make phone calls without having to go into the backyard! All the best to you!
you are totally generous! WTG! I gave a homeless guy 5 dollars and a bag of chips one time and he took the five and threw the chips on the ground. He only liked sour cream and onion and i had plain. :/
Good for you girl and thanks for sharing in hopes to inspire us!
That was sweet of you! We need more people like that in this world!!!! Not homeless but to help others lol
Wow – I love this story.
Good for you. And good for God.
That’s awesome. What a blessing you were to that guy!
That’s so sweet of you!
I probably would have looked away and walked quickly to my car.
Trisha, that’s a wonderful story! It brought tears to my eyes. That’s such a sweet thing for you to give up your meal so someone else less fortunate can eat a hot breakfast and help warm him.
Great story. Good for you for realizing the difference between want and need. I’m sure you feel MUCH better than you would have if you’d eaten it – you’d probably have regretted it within the hour.