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[Good News] "Secret Santa" Covers Layaway Bills for Shoppers in Need

Posting feelgoody type news stories has become a thing with me, hasn't it?

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PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. � Christmas came early for three people in West Michigan when a stranger picked up the tab on some presents.

It happened Monday night at the Big Kmart on the 4000 block of Plainfield Avenue in Plainfield Township. A woman, described only as "being in her 30s," walked up to the layaway desk, pushing a shopping cart full of toys she planned to donate.

"This lady came up randomly and said, 'Can I, you know, pay off some people's layaway?' " said Dannell Goddard. Goddard works at Kmart in the layaway department. She told 24 Hour News 8 that when she first heard the request, she was a bit confused.

"I was like, 'Well, are you trying to pick them up? 'Cause you can't pick them up if you don't have an ID,' " Goddard said. "And [the mystery woman] replied, 'Nope, I just want to help people.' "

...The woman's only requirement was that there were toys in the layaway orders.

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One of the recipients of that kindness was Mary Chapin. She told 24 Hour News 8 the act of kindness "restored her faith in people."

Chapin had put about $200 worth of toys on layaway for her son, David, Monday afternoon. She said she hoped she'd be able to pay off the balance by the week before Christmas.

Then she got a call from Kmart that changed all that.

"They said that someone had paid $180 on my layaway and there was only $10 left," said Chapin. "I thought it was a joke."

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Chapin wanted to say thank you, but the only clue to the woman's identity was a message on her receipt that read, "Happy Holiday from a friend."

"I thank her. It's the best gift that I ever received, and it's the gift of believing in people," said Chapin. "And believing that there's good out there, 'cause you don't always see that."

The entire layaway order was for 12-year-old David, who has autism. Chapin told 24 Hour News 8 she was so excited she gave her son one of those toys, a brand new LEGO set.

Its heartwarming to see people with money to spare actually putting it to some positive use during the holidays.

And just like that I officially love Christmas again. :)

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Its heartwarming to see people with money to spare actually putting it to some positive use during the holidays.

We don't actually know how much money this mystery woman has.

Well I can only assume she has quite a bit of it if she put money down on three people's layaway orders.

Also wow, story local to me, huh? I don't live too far away from Plainfield.

It would be a poor assumption. My mom has done stuff like this before, paying people's restaurant bills, etc at random. She is not wealthy by any first world definition I've ever heard. Good to hear these kinds of acts out there in among all the negative stories that dominate the media.

Generally speaking, people who are less wealthy tend to be more empathetic. It also makes the act so much more caring and selfless when the person doing it doesn't have that much to share to begin with.

I think you guys are focusing too much on the "has money" part than the "to spare" part. I don't think Shy is implying that this lady is rich, just that she was able to give what she gave.

That much seems likely.

We need more good news around here

Why are most of the news bad news

In honour of this happy thread I donated $10 cash to the Salvation Army at the store today. Let's all be like this lady and do similar shit!

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Originally Posted by Osterbaum (Post 1173260)

We don't actually know how much money this mystery woman has.

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Originally Posted by Azisien (Post 1173275)

It would be a poor assumption. My mom has done stuff like this before, paying people's restaurant bills, etc at random. She is not wealthy by any first world definition I've ever heard.

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Originally Posted by Osterbaum (Post 1173301)

Generally speaking, people who are less wealthy tend to be more empathetic.

why do people gotta bust balls

Who cares if she is rich or poor, if she is giving 100% of her spare cash or .00000001%. Stop dividing people based on income level and just appreciate an act of kindness.

That is a ridiculous statement, but now that you have the moral high ground, I cannot defeat you! Now get busy and go donate to a charity.

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Originally Posted by Azisien (Post 1173332)

now that you have the moral high ground, I cannot defeat you!

of course you can never overcome the combat modifiers of higher ground. Now go, go and help out the needy until you are so poor you become the needy, then we will have our rematch on equal footing

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Originally Posted by Aerozord (Post 1173345)

Now go, go and help out the needy until you are so poor you become the needy, then we will have our rematch on equal footing

And he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the [temple's] treasury. And he saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins. And He said, "Truly I say to you, this poor woman put in more than all of them; for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she of her poverty put in all that she had to live on." (Luke 21:1-4 NAS)

Go out and help until we become the needy?! Get in the Christmas spirit: Give until you're a corpse in the ditch 'cause that's the reason for the season!

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Originally Posted by Aerozord (Post 1173345)

of course you can never overcome the combat modifiers of higher ground.

I can ignore terrain and move up to speed +4 daily.

Means nothing without Improved Initiative, Marc.

II is Implied, scrub

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Originally Posted by Aerozord (Post 1173324)

It's not an act of kindness if all the hundreds are filling up your wallet. It's like when I give change to beggars, it's not kindness on my part just convenience.

http://troll.me/images/x-all-the-thi...l-the-toys.jpg

Look, Good Deed Is Good. Okay? this is a nice thing, a good thing. Makes me wish i would do more stuff like that, which is more than i was yesterday, so it's something good! kudos to her and all those who follow the example

It's nice, but it ain't exactly THAT great and good.

e: Like on a grand scheme of things. I'm sorry but I just sort of get this feeling from these kinds of threads that everyone is sort of using one nice act as a pretense to lull themselves back into a sort of "whelp I guess things are good in the world afterall" state. And I understand that is unlikely the case, everyone here is intelligent enough. Sorry, I guess sort of. For raining on your parade

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Originally Posted by Marc v4.0 (Post 1173546)

II is Implied, scrub

If it's not marked on the character sheet, dunkass, you don't benefit from its effect.

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Wait, what?

What's wrong with feeling happy because of hearing about someone do a good deed? I've always thought that if someone was thinking about someone doing a good deed, they were more likely to do good themselves.

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Originally Posted by Seil (Post 1173620)

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I've always thought that if someone was thinking about someone doing a good deed, they were more likely to do good themselves.

According to my Psych 100 class from last quarter, that's actually a thing! It's called the "feel-good, do-good phenomenon" :knowledge: .

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Originally Posted by EckScizor (Post 1173619)

If it's not marked on the character sheet, dunkass, you don't benefit from its effect.

Why would it be implied at all if it wasn't even marked down? Keep up, brah

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What's wrong with feeling happy because of hearing about someone do a good deed?

Nothing!

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Originally Posted by Seil (Post 1173620)

[color=pink]Wait, what?

What's wrong with feeling happy because of hearing about someone do a good deed?

You are succumbing to the manipulations of your caveman brain.