I left a small bag of nonperishable (and nonexpired) groceries for the Stamp Out Hunger food drive put on by the National Association of Letter Carriers, then didn’t think about it all day. 
When I returned home, the food was gone, and a small Thank You card was stuck to the mail box. It made my day.
Earlier in the week, I took two missionaries out to eat. I had planned a nice meal, but events conspired against that, so we went to an all-day breakfast place. Today, I found an envelope on my backseat addressed to me, and in it was a Thank You card with a nice note from them, which I assume one of them wrote following the meal and left in the car.
Thank you is such a simple gesture, and it says so many good things about those who say it: kind, thoughtful, sincere, generous, polite, socially aware, gracious, grateful, giving, understanding, on and on. It’s the right thing to do, and, I’m here to tell you, it makes the person who receives the thank you feel good.
» Thanks, For Nothing from CoreCharacter
I received a thank you card today, unexpected, out of the blue, for doing a small, forgotten thing, nothing, really. It all started with The DaVinci Code. I was going to see it with a friend who canceled two hours... [Read More]
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