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| Author: | talkinyet [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
Recently, there was a KC news story about a person who paid for someone else's coffee when they were in a fast food drive-thru. She 'paid it backward' for the person behind her in line. The manager of the fast food joint said that to date, there had been over 1400 folks who were kind enough to do the same thing! At the end of the story, they did acknowledge that only a very few people accepted free coffee and that most returned the favor to the person behind THEM. I believe this was in a KC suburb where surely there are people who suffer in today's economic climate but probably has very few residents who are truly destitute and can't afford coffee. They're driving cars, patronizing a fast food restaurant,etc. A touchy, feely story to be sure but to me it seems pretty silly. Am I being too cynical? |
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| Author: | Oxford [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
IMHO, yes. I thought it was touching. |
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| Author: | weeslicket [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
consider the possibilty: you were the person "backward" of the good coffee-buying samaritan. could this experience change your view of the experience? dare is suggest emxxxxy? |
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| Author: | talkinyet [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
weeslicket wrote: consider the possibilty: you were the person "backward" of the good coffee-buying samaritan. could this experience change your view of the experience? Well, it might. I do wonder if I would go ahead and take a free coffee or, under the expectant gaze of the fast-food worker, pass on my good fortune to the next person. Maybe it would be easy to choose if there happened to be nobody behind me. And I wonder how 1400 people 'just happened' to do a supposedly spontaneous action. Maybe I missed that part of the story. Did they put up a sign? Was there radio or newspaper coverage that spurred all this generosity? Oh well... weeslicket wrote: dare is suggest emxxxxy? Huh? |
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| Author: | weeslicket [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
empaxxy (can't say it, it's naughty) |
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| Author: | talkinyet [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
weeslicket wrote: empaxxy (can't say it, it's naughty) Still lost on what the "dare is suggest" part is... "Empathy" is naughty? Doesn't really apply here anyway... |
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| Author: | weeslicket [ Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 'Pay it backward' silliness? |
emxxxxy is naughty mostly when one might be appointed to a position of authority best left to wise white men, with the richness of their experiences, when is not a wise white man. this is the suggestion. Quote: Doesn't really apply here anyway... this is the monkey house. nothing really applies anyway. |
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