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(I am working the register over Christmas.)

- Me: “Find everything today?”

- Customer: “Yup.”

- (Note: she is silent through the transaction, which includes a gift card.)

- Me: “How much would you like on this?”

- Customer: “Oh, sorry. Can I have $150?”

- Me: “No problem.”

- Customer: *after paying* “Can you do me a favor?” *she hands me the gift card* “The next customer you see that you think could use this, could you give it to them?”

- Me: *stunned* “…Of course!”

(After a minute another customer comes up, a visibly upset young woman.)

- Me: “Hi! How are you?”

- Customer #2: “I’m okay, thanks.”

- (Clearly she is not ok, but she is trying very hard to be pleasant. She is getting very basic items: milk, bread, eggs, etc. Nothing very festive.)

- Me: “So your total comes out to $0.00.”

- Customer: “What?”

- Me: “The person before you gave me a $150 gift card to use for the next person I thought could use it. You look like you’re having a rough day, so here are your groceries, and there’s about $130 left on this card.”

(The customer just started crying. Once she could, she thanked me about 100 times. Made my whole Christmas season.)

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► Another bloody sketch blog: I debated whether or not to share this story.

unwinona:

And then I debated whether or not to put it on Tumblr…but I decided it was important. Because in my own way, I can (unfortunately) point out exactly what is wrong with men when they don’t realize how hard it is to be a woman. How we do not have equal opportunities and freedoms in…