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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: The Big Train on June 23, 2014, 01:15:28 PM
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So idk how many of you guys have seen the movie Pay it Forward, it's got Helen Hunt and that kid that saw dead people. Anyway this thread is about that. So I was getting lunch today at Goodcents and this little squawk in front of me got a footlong turkey on white, and was getting the meal deal. Well this poor soul had his card declined 3 times :frown: so me being the :kstategrad: that I am paid for his meal. Let me tell you guys the :D that came across his face when he learned he wasn't going hungry for lunch was just the best.
So, what have you guys done and will do to Pay it Forward?
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Story doesn't check out. EMAW's don't have cards declined.
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Story doesn't check out. EMAW's don't have cards declined.
this little squawk in front of me
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he edited it
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So have you guys paid it forward or are we gonna talk about my typo all day
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I let people in all the time on the highway.
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I've probably been nice to someone before, but I'm having trouble recalling any particular instances.
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I help women get their bags in the overhead storage. Old men, too.
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i bought a band t-shirt off some dude on saturday night
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I let people in all the time on the highway.
when I do this mrs. dave gets infuriated. I will slow down to let them get in there if they turn on their signal. she is a typical "floor it to get ahead of them so they can't get in" POS driver.
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Last year before a Cats FB game, I was at the Dara's, you know the one that's right by campus, close to the stadium. The college aged girl in front of me was getting a fountain drink (prob to put vodka into, lolz) and something else, didn't have enough money, or they didn't take her card or something. Anyone, I stepped in and said, "just put her's with mine". She said thanks, and then we went our separate ways and watched EMAW. What a day.
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I let people in all the time on the highway.
This is very hard for me to do because on the rare occasion i do this they generally do something really stupid in front of me.
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People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
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People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
I have only been caught in a starbucks drive through pay for the person behind yours purchase train once. but you can rest assured I combo broke that SOB because I just had a black coffee.
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If I paid for someone's $5 sandwich once I would expect a thread in my honor
People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
I have only been caught in a starbucks drive through pay for the person behind yours purchase train once. but you can rest assured I combo broke that SOB because I just had a black coffee.
I did not know this was a thing. WTF is the point of that
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If I paid for someone's $5 sandwich once I would expect a thread in my honor
People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
I have only been caught in a starbucks drive through pay for the person behind yours purchase train once. but you can rest assured I combo broke that SOB because I just had a black coffee.
I did not know this was a thing. WTF is the point of that
I have no idea. mrs. dave has run into them on multiple occasions.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2004084452_webstarbucks20m.html
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I have only been caught in a starbucks drive through pay for the person behind yours purchase train once. but you can rest assured I combo broke that SOB because I just had a black coffee.
people are idiots.
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People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
I have only been caught in a starbucks drive through pay for the person behind yours purchase train once. but you can rest assured I combo broke that SOB because I just had a black coffee.
oh man these are the worst, they do them all the time in tulsa. was in a quikmart and bought some little crap for a meal or whatever and the lady told me the person in front of me paid for it. i looked back thinking okay cool and it was a fat dude with about 150 dollars worth of crap. very abruptly said ummm no grabbed my crap and walked out
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I mean if you are paying for theirs and your own, I get it. If you are just paying for crap you didn't order instead of paying for what you did, that is really dumb.
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People that tell brag stories about having covered some dinky nothing purchase for a stranger are really cool guys that aren't lame dickholes at all. I learned that from this thread.
So you don't pay it forward then?
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One time in college I had my Taco Bell order payed for by the person in front of me in the Drive-Thru (something like 4 bucks), so I asked the drive thru employee how much the car behind me's order was going to be. They responded with "$24.83" so I was like okay welp nevermind and I drove off to eat my free Taco Bell at home. Who spends 25 bucks at Taco Bell?
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Paying it forward means someone did something nice for you and then you did something nice for another person. Maybe you should recognize the person who did the nice thing for you instead of just patting yourself on the back. :dunno:
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One time in college I had my Taco Bell order payed for by the person in front of me in the Drive-Thru (something like 4 bucks), so I asked the drive thru employee how much the car behind me's order was going to be. They responded with "$24.83" so I was like okay welp nevermind and I drove off to eat my free Taco Bell at home. Who spends 25 bucks at Taco Bell?
If I was working at a taco rough ridin' bell, I would've pocketed that $4.
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every day i stop by a local florist on the way to my office and pick up a large bouquet of the most beautiful of that day's floral assortment and then stop by a different nursing home and deliver the flowers, one by one, to each of the elderly in the home. then i bring all of the elderly out to the rec room and play patty cake with them and eat fudge which i had hand made the night before. then it's off to work for a day of getting stuff done. rinse and repeat.
#flowersforagingoldpeople
#makeadifference
#pattycakewithgramps
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One time in college I had my Taco Bell order payed for by the person in front of me in the Drive-Thru (something like 4 bucks), so I asked the drive thru employee how much the car behind me's order was going to be. They responded with "$24.83" so I was like okay welp nevermind and I drove off to eat my free Taco Bell at home. Who spends 25 bucks at Taco Bell?
If I was working at a taco rough ridin' bell, I would've pocketed that $4.
how many free meals or coffees or tolls have i missed out on because of this :sdeek:
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one time mrs. dave and I were eating at the Harry Carry's at MDW right before catching a flight back to omaha. some mystery person paid our bill. was very strange.
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people are awkward AF
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one time mrs. dave and I were eating at the Harry Carry's at MDW right before catching a flight back to omaha. some mystery person paid our bill. was very strange.
it was her birthday and she was kinda bitching about not getting a birthday cake while we were in chicago so maybe some people felt bad for me having to put up with her garbage attitude?
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this is a bad day on the board for mrs dave
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this is a bad day on the board for mrs dave
she may be an entitled brat on her birthday and an aggressive driver but she is mostly an absolute gem of a person.
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This thread pretty much disproves any idea of altruism, huh?
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I let people in all the time on the highway.
This is very hard for me to do because on the rare occasion i do this they generally do something really stupid in front of me.
QFT. I feel like if I let someone in ahead of me it's only going to enable more stupid driving behavior.
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
the person behind you in space is ahead of you in time
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puniraptor is clearly high from ingesting his own keyboard feces earlier in the day.
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Like 2.5 years ago the parking lot at work was over-flowing really badly and they got some overflow parking which was like a block from the building but nobody parked there because they didn't want to walk. Well I parked there because I am a good person and they gave me a $5 starbucks gift card for doing so. I promptly gave away said gift card :gocho:
Boy howdy that was a long story.
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
the person behind you in space is ahead of you in time
Only if you have a Delorean.
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Starbucks line. Twice. Had someone pay my bill. It ends there. I don't pay for the next guy, I just tip very well and drive off. :billdance:
On Anniversary, Wife and I had someone pay our bill at a restaurant once too. Again, just tipped like a boss and bounced.
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I've never had anybody anonymously pay for anything of mine. Seems like a strange thing to do.
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people are awkward AF
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
the person behind you in space is ahead of you in time
Only if you have a Delorean.
I'm definitely right about this.
the car behind you will pull up to the drive thru window in the future
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
the person behind you in space is ahead of you in time
Only if you have a Delorean.
I'm definitely right about this.
the car behind you will pull up to the drive thru window in the future
If you win a footrace, does that mean the other person finished ahead of you in time?
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paying for the person behind you in starbucks sounds more like paying it backward.
next time im at starbucks i will offer to pay for the person in front of me.
the person behind you in space is ahead of you in time
Only if you have a Delorean.
I'm definitely right about this.
the car behind you will pull up to the drive thru window in the future
If you win a footrace, does that mean the other person finished ahead of you in time?
well forward of you in time, at least. i see we might have a word ambiguity issue here.
they will finish after you in time, ahead on the timeline.
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so i guess my answer is yes
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just like you're paying it forward
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forward in time
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Good movie, awful thread.
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#fattyfamily paid for some random people's tabs with their trivia winning mae's gift cards.
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The ethical thing is to not go to starbucks.
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The ethical thing is to not go to starbucks.
is dumb starbucks ok?
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Sorta similar but not really the same, I'm a huge believer in Karma.
Not that I believe there is some great "Karmatic Force" out there, just that if I'm a good person and don't take things that aren't mine people will do the same.
Some examples -
One time in college I forgot my bookbag in a class and didnt realize it until like 2 classes later. I went back to the classroom and there was a note on the door saying if you forgot your bookbag call this number :D
About 4 years ago I decided (wisely) that I was way to pak'd to drive home and didnt need my keys anymore so I threw them across a crowded bar against a back wall(When I got home I realized I had locked my apartment door and had to scale a 3 story balcony to open the back sliding door). The next day I called the bar and someone had turned my keys in at the front desk :D
It doesn't always work out
Had about $500 worth of fishing gear stolen last night :frown:
Went fishing along the KS river(by 435 bridge) yesterday afternoon with the dog. Was in a rush to get everything loaded before the cats game and ended up leaving 4 poles and my fishing bag along the side of the road.
Did not realize I had left everything there until I got home and by that time there was only an hr before the cats game. My gear was on the side of a gravel road that I had never seen any cars on before so I figured it would be fine until after the game.
Went to get it after the game and it was all gone :frown:
but I think I'll keep being a good person.
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This thread pretty much disproves any idea of altruism, huh?
Not really. It just proves that some people are terribly selfish, but don't want to be seen as such.
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Keep being ben ji, ben ji
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Some girl dropped her wallet outside of target in olathe. I opened it and saw she had a target card so took it to the sevice desk so they could call her. Lady asked me to write down my name and number incase, I declined. There was a good amount of cash in the wallet and credit/debit cards. Would've been a huge headache to replace all that.
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