Hello Hello to all you wonderful Hivians
It's a Monday in May, and we actually had a glorious weekend weather wise. The sun was out and it even hit 23 degrees. I almost put on a pair of shorts and took off my hoodie!
I was using Warpcast this morning and an interesting question popped up, coupled with one on Sunday.
Question number 1 .... If you are in a supermarket check out line with a trolley or cart full of groceries, would you let someone go in front of you if they had only a couple of items...
Answer number 1 .... First of all I was quite astounded that someone actually answered that. I mean doesn't everyone do it? I chuckled because I was shopping on Sunday and had a few items, not a trolley or cart but one of these dragging baskets you get. Anyway there was a young person with a couple of items, so of course I said do you want to go ahead.
To which she replied aww no it's ok, I am not in a hurry so you just go ahead.
It's the thought that counts right?
Eh no apparently. So I was reading the comments and a couple of 'people' said No they never would!
I just thought you sad fluffers... How pathetic are they... Then I thought I suppose they wouldn't even help an elderly or disabled person cross the road or even open a door for a lady.
Question number 2 .... This was the one I saw yesterday which I thought was interesting a wee bit apt seeing it was Mother's Day in parts of the world yesterday... The question was have you done an act of kindess today?
Answer number 2 .... I call things like this RAOK and I am sure plenty of you know these as Random Acts of Kindness
So I thought about what I did in the same shop. Who says shopping isn't eventful ....
Now then here is a wee clue ...
The clue is Matilda my alter ego and podcaster extraordinaire and of course 
Okay so the clue is not Matilda herself or rather what she personifies a little old grey haired Scottish lady.
The Lidl supermarket I was shopping at has metal shopping trolleys or carts as well as hand baskets. Now the hand baskets are these blue plastic things with black handles, both a black carrying handle and a black pulling handle (yes they are on wheels).
The only problem is that often they are at the tills or checkout line and not at the entrance.
Or the ones left are missing the pulling handle.
And so it was that I was walking along behind this wee old wifey who was carrying a basket as was I, there were none left that you could pull.
The next thing I knew was that Matilda we shall call her dropped her basket and it must have landed on an edge because it tipped out and out fell a box of eggs a grapefruit two apples and a big white onion. These started rolling and Matilda stepped on an escaped apple and was falling, luckily I still had my reflexes from playing many years at silly mid off in cricket and was able to leap her and grab her elbow before she hit that fluffing hard floor.
It was a lucky escape, the eggs were okay and so was the little old lady!
So there we have it, if you can help someone, just do it.
What goes around comes around, you never know when the kindness comes back to you.
So just get into the habit of doing acts of kindness.
This post is for the themed days in FreeCompliments community and today is Motivational Mondays on the FreeCompliments Community!
Thanks for visiting and I wish you all a terrific rest of your week.
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated.
