Comments on: Random Acts of Kindness, Week One

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:10:19 +0000

My RAK this year is to bring my brother home for Christmas. He has been estranged from my mother for several years and with the help of his new girlfriend, we have convinced him to come to her house on Christmas morning. She’s been missing him a long time but just couldn’t bring herself to call him, thinking he wouldn’t be ready to talk to her. So I am bringing him to her on Christmas day as a surprise. It’s the first time that all of my siblings will be together with our mother on Christmas Day since before I left home for college (17 yrs now).

By: Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Cake and Kindness

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Cake and Kindness — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:03:36 +0000

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By: Kathlene in Iowa

Kathlene in Iowa — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:32:47 +0000

Sheri ~ How much jam do you use for the mustard/jam mixture? I don’t see it in the ingredients, but it IS referenced in the instructions.

By: Sandi Seigel

Sandi Seigel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:41:29 +0000

I was just relishing how great it feels to drive on my 4 new tires. Today I walked to the end of a freezing garage today to my car. I was already very late for an important medical appointment across town. I was really feeling the pressure to get in the car to warm up and to my destination. Then I noticed that the car parked next to mine had very low tires. I pressed on one tire with my thumb. It easily gave way to the pressure. I didn’t have a pen so I used my lip pencil (I know- how does that reinforce the stereotype!) to write a note about the tires to the driver and I placed under the windshield wiper of the car. I kept thinking that that they could have a very bad accident on the icy roads with low tire pressure. I didn’t think about it again until I read of such kind and compassionate RAKS in everyone’s entries.

By: Rachel Peck

Rachel Peck — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:13 +0000

I sent packages from the Loopy Ewe to my co-moderators on ravelry to let them know how much I appreciate them. Boy were they surprised!

By: Carol Urban

Carol Urban — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:02:19 +0000

My RAK began last week and finished up this week. I took my bosses wife to the hospital for hand surgery last week and then took her back to her doctor’s appointments this week. I think I qualify for the above and beyond type of secretary.

It felt really good to be on the giving end this time. I had cancer this past year and am cured. It was great to not be the patient for once!

By: Anniebananie

Anniebananie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:45:31 +0000

We have an angel tree at my kid’s school. My son reminded me this morning that the presents are due back to school, wrapped, on Friday. I was in a meeting with other mom’s this morning and reminded them of this. I told them that I was going to Target and to give me the items they needed. I would pick them up, wrap them, and bring them to school.

So, I now have a car full of presents that me and my son will wrap and return to school so the other mom’s didn’t have to make a trip into town for one or two things (we live out in the country).

By: bookgrump

bookgrump — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:55:37 +0000

My boss gave me her credit card so that I could pay for her lunch and mine when I picked it up. I didn’t use her card. I used mine. She likely won’t figure it out for weeks!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:24:15 +0000

Probably too late for the contest, but I did give up my place in line this week for someone.

By: Monnie

Monnie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:19:57 +0000

My RAK is, perhaps, not quite so random… I knew my auntie had some Rain Checks that she’d gotten from Target for some certain wireless mouse that had sold out a few weeks ago. However, she wasn’t able to actually buy the mice, because the store near her place was always out of stock of them. In the end, she had to leave for the Philippines without them, and she was awfully sad because she’d meant to give them to her friends back home for Christmas.

Enter me, living in my auntie’s apartment this past month. Well, I found the Rain Checks on her desk after she left, and I figured, “Hey, I’ll get them for her.”

…one week, four Targets, arguments with half a dozen “new service personnel” who clearly didn’t have a clue what they were supposed to do with me, a good number of miles on my car, and the entire Audiobook of Twilight later, I finally have her mice! I haven’t gotten the chance to tell her yet, but I hope her friends really like them!