Random Act of Kindness

Today I got to be on the receiving end of a random act of kindness. This made my day for a couple reasons.

I've been sick on and off for about a week. Last Friday I got hit real hard with a nasty bout of death. Luckily it didn't last long and by Saturday, I pretty much felt all better. I felt good for a few days then on Tuesday, I started feeling sick again. Then yesterday and today it has pretty much been full blown sickness again. No fun.

So anyway, back to my RAOK story. This morning I was heading to work for my weekly 7:45 PLC meeting with my teaching team. It was about 7:42 and I was actually going to be on time, but I ran out of cold medicine and didn't think I could make it through the day without any. So I texted my teammates and told them I was going to be a little late because I was stopping at Walgreens. I get there and run up the door, only for it to be locked. I look at the hours...open at 8:00. Crap. There was no way I could wait for them to open. This is one of those situations where I just wanted to cry. All I wanted was some cold medicine and some cough drops. So I run back to my car and start it and I see one of the Walgreen workers run out to my car (in the pouring rain). I roll down my window and he says "If you need something, I can go ahead and open the store." HOW NICE IS THAT? So I go inside, thank him about 100 times, and get myself some cold medicine and cough drops.

It made my day...first off, because I didn't have to be miserable without meds. But also because someone went out of their way to do something nice for a complete stranger.

Thank you, Walgreens worker. You are a nice human and I appreciate you.