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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.
I’m sure he thinks you are an angel. Maybe that was his only meal that day. I love how opportunities to help seem to fall into our laps.
Oh yes… he gotcha!
I actually won a free breakfast thing on my monopoly piece this weekend.
That was so kind of you, Trish. Most people would have just turned down his request for money and kept walking.
I have never tried one of those burritos, but I may have to since so many of you like them. Hhhhmmmm
That was very nice of you!! It would be pretty hard for me to turn loose of the burritos though…my fav!
Good for you!
One Sunday a month, we volunteer at Taste of God’s Love. A bunch of us from church set up food outside on a campus downtown (not a soup kitchen). We’ve been doing this for over five years and I can not believe how long the lines have gotten lately. It’s really sad to see.
Many blessings will come your way for your random act of kindness. I bet, if he wins the million dollar sticker, he would find you to share his new found wealth because you were so kind to him.
Stories like this give me goosebumps.
How sweet of you. I probably would’ve split in in half or something! I’m too greedy.
What a great thing to do! You are so sweet!
I could’ve parted with the soda, but I would be very sad to see that hashbrown go, they are definitely my weakness.
Isn’t it funny how stuff like that happens? God has a way of teaching us in situations where you think He couldn’t possibly…like McDonalds.
It is sad to think of all the people who are hurting/struggling right now in these tough times. I made it a point the other day when I was grocery shopping to pick up a bunch of extra canned and dry goods for the food shelf that our church donates to. I got everything someone would need for a nice Thanksgiving dinner…besides the turkey, obviously. And last night we packed up our Operation Christmas Child boxes with the kids…what a GREAT way to teach your kids to help others who don’t have even a FRACTION of what you’ve been blessed with!
Ahw,way to go Trisha! That was an awesome thing to do! I always gain so much weight when Icome home because I visit all of the fast foods that we don’t have here!
thats awesome of you. It always feels good to help someone out!
Good for you! Good case of paying it forward!
Like you I would not have been able to hand over my diet coke, but chances are good that it would have been at least half way gone before I got out to the parking lot anyways.
I know we’re supposed to do nice things for people so I totally get what you did but I am ADDICTED to McDonalds. I’m sure I would have done the same. I’m sure I would have…. Right?? It was the right thing to do. But my hands would have been trembling as I handed off the bag. He would have had to help me let go. Today, Trisha…. You are my hero.
Way to go! I’ve heard that food shelves are having a tough time this year too, with the economy & everything. Might be a good time for us to do some cupboard clean outs.
Very nice of you!! Love me some of those burrito wraps too. Now I will have to get one tomorrow!
That is awesome. You can also look at is as God wanted you to go redeem that so you could give it to the homeless man. That is really great.
Wow, that really was quite the coincidence.
Remember karma. You just racked up some good points, Earl!
Good for you for recognizing it, too! And at least you got the coke! I’m there with ya with the headache w/o caffeine!