Reading Cuthie's post about sending her friend $100 got me thinking.

What have YOU done to make yourself proud? We ALL have dome something to help our fellow man- what's yours? Let's give eachother goosebumps!!

Financial, Emotional or whatever- doesn't matter!

I was in line at the CVS pharmacy last year and there was a stir at the register. An elderly man was paying for his 3 prescriptions and didn't have enough money. He asked the tech how much each was. Once she told him, he said " I'll just take the Blood Pressure and Heart one, I'll have to pick up the insulin next month!"

I bugged my nose in and asked how much the insulin was. She told me $30. I handed her my credit card and told her to charge it. The man looked at me like I was crazy at first then tears started rolling down his face. He said " no no, young lady, you do not have to do that."

I said, " I know I don't HAVE to, I want to. Please take care of your health!"

He asked for my name and address so he could pay me back and I refused. He said please just tell me your first and last name. I said my name was Cici and he said " No, your name is My angel!"

I felt so good to have helped him out and cried the whole way home. This poor cute little old man had to choose between his heart and diabetes drugs.

When I told my dad the story the following day, HE started crying too! He told me he was so proud of me- that's when it REALLY hit me. I thought about that man for 2 weeks straight!

Awesome!!! If all the world worked like this there would be peace on earth finally!!!!
I try to help like that too. One time it was raining and I was on my way to shop (of course). I saw a lady laying on a side street with another woman standing by her and a man kneeling over the lady. The ladies were elderly. I drove by but then turned around and went back. I didn't have a cell phone at the time nor do I have medical experience but I had an umbrella! So I held the umbrella over the man and lady. I watched car after car drive by but then this work truck pulled up and these two young men, kinda rough looking, got out and got a tarp out of their truck. They were going to protect them with it until help arrived. That really made me feel good that these two young men would stop. I left then and I always wondered what happened to the lady (stroke maybe?) and I always remember that nice man talking words of encouragement to the lady. (He had a cell and had called for help.) Not much I could do but try to help keep them dry.

We knew a family here in our church was going through a really rough time. So this is a story of what a few ppl did, I really just organized it.

They had 5 children between the two of them.
Each person brought 1 child with them into the marriage and then they had 3 more children together.
These ppl were strapped before she fell and broke her leg in three places at Carraba's(the italian food place) The had no medical insurance and they had to do surgery on her to set her leg. It was bad. Well, Carraba's paid her rent for three months b/c she tripped over a patron's leg at work and they really were being very nice about it. I went over to check on her and the children and their lights had been cut off. No food in the house and the baby was majorly sick. Church family came over and took the baby (she had asthma and needed a treatment really badly) to the doctors. I paid the light bill that was three months back due. And another family bought groceries. And then I proceeded to clean their entire house. It was bad. My parents came over and cut the grass and weeded the beds.

Never once did they say thank you to anyone ever. It was like they just expected it. Would I do it again, absolutely. It needed to be done.

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Looking back it probably wasn't the brightest idea since I was an 18 year old college student, but one day when I left a book store I saw a man pushing his car from the street (across a lane or 2 of traffic, no less) into the book store's parking lot, I helped him finish pushing it into a parking spot then drove him up the road and bought a little gas... all the way there and back he talked about being on his way to a job interview and how he gives his wife his paychecks. Wasn't dressed in the nicest clothes so I figure he didn't earn much... asked for my name and address to repay but I refused, of course!

Last year, I took my daughter into Krogers to buy her birthday cake and I forgot my wallet in the car, didn't realize this until I had put my stuff on the conveyor belt! Told the cashier, didn't expect to be more than a minute or two and there was someone ahead of me. I came back in and my stuff was moved so they could get to the next person but there was a $20 sitting on top of it! Turns out it was from one of the older ladies that annoyed me () by standing in an aisle chatting while I was shopping in that area. And on the way out the lady's friend stopped to talk about angels But it made for quite a story! I just hope she didn't think I was a single mom or anything, my husband and son were sitting out in the car.

I've wanted to do things in the store, like buy a kid some piece of candy or whatever they were begging for, but I don't think I'd want someone to do that for my kids. One time a woman was in an aisle with me with 3 little girls and she didn't have much patience, one said she needed to potty and the mom said NO! I almost offered to take the kid to the bathroom (my kids were at home, so I was in a decent mood while shopping LOL) but that's kind of creepy, isn't it?

Cici you story is so nice! The man need those meds!

When it rains in S. FL the skies open up and it pours, on one of these day I stop to help this woman whose was car was on the side of the road. The woman was making hand gestures like she wanted a phone and was all wet. I stopped and let her in my car and gave her my cell phone to use. It turns out she was the nanny trying to pick up the children at school. The school wasn't far from my children's school so I took her there and wished her luck.

The other day I was in this pricey market picking up some over priced chickhen salad that my son loves and the woman in front of me was getting out her pennies to pay. I just gave the cashier some change, mostly because I didn't want to watch this one count out pennies!

Sometimes just even saying a kind word to someone helps. I remember when my dd threw up in Macy's I was just horrorfied. Some woman came up to me and said it happen to all of us. Which is so ture! But still I felt like I had to clean it up.

I usually give coupons to people because I have so many I just don't use them! I gave some woman a limited too one the other day and I always give someone the BBW one. I still cut out diaper coupons eventhough my youngest is 7!

I am a behind-the-scenes person, so my proudest moments come through the accomplishments of my "kids" - be it my natural born or the 20 or so people who work for me. Anytime any one of them get an award, do a good deed, get good grades or a good rating, get promoted, solve a tough problem, publish a paper in a trade journal or present a paper at a conference, and so on, I am proud of myself because I know that I coached or helped them to be successful in their endeavours. I have done these things personally and felt proud with myself then, but find a much greater pride at this point in my life in the accomplishments of those around me.

cj/

One night while working a second shift, one of my coworkers got a call that his mother was terribly sick in his hometown about 250 miles away. He was a young guy that didn't have a car he would trust to make the trip. He was bummed out that he couldn't get home to see his mom as he was her youngest and espcially close to her. When we clocked out at midnight, I said let's go. In a split second I decided to give him the ride. Best thing I ever did. His mom passed away shortly after we got there but he was able to be with her. I made it back home just in time to clean up and head back to work. To this day the kid makes the effort to come see me at work or call just to see how things are going.

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Terrific story, cashchik!! What a significant and never-forgotten good deed you did.

cj/

Well my "proudest" moment came 2 weeks ago. Backgroud: 17 years ago, My husband and I had a fight and he left. I had lost my job earlier that day, the electric was going to be turned off the next day and the slime ball took my last paycheck leaving me $5 to buy milk for my 4 yr old son. The next morning I got up, went to welfare, went to unemployment and came home. My former boss had called offering me a job (not knowing what was going on) and I took it and started that night (3rd shift). Over the next 17 years I raised my son with very little child support and the only time I needed gov help was when I was unemployed for 6 weeks. My 21 year old son recently moved out to his own place, healthy, happy and employed. That is my proud moment.

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Wow women you are amazing. That would certainly make anyone proud!!

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Thank you Vicki but I'm only a mom who now has am empty nest.

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Thanks. That night gave me a lot to think about. The woman was only in her mid 40's and had an undiagnosed heart condition. Reminded me that none of us know how long we are here for, so today we have to give it our best.

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I haven`t done anything special but I try to do good things every chance I get even if its just opening a door for a mommy with a carriage. I feel proud that I am a good person. Does that make sense?

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I am enjoying reading these. I am also trying to think of an incident that I could post on but nothing that I can think of compares to what has already been posted. Way to go!

after reading an another post about th wedding band,I did this:
last January ,dh found a ring(a school ring 1970 from a college in TX) we are in Alabama.inscription isinde the ring: john C smith.finding this person would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack!!!
I contacted teh school ,they didn;t answer my emal for months...
then suddenly I receive an Email giving me Mr Smith 's email adress.I emailed him,and he was schocked that we had found the ring.he told me that he was so poor when he graduated,he barely could afford that ring with the red stones.it was more sentimental than anything...I mailed the ring back to him in New orleans.

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On behalf of ALL the Mommies in the world who have/had a full double stroller and then one little one by the hand................WE THANK YOU, that simple act of opening the door, is saving us a two minute struggle, for me anyway. So, maybe you opened the door for me in the past, and I thank you!!

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