a great cowboy Cristmas story...

for the record, i dont care for Christmas..but i do like some things about it, and heres an example.
couple nghts ago, im standing in line at walmart to pay for dog food ect, in line ahead of me,
a Holday shopper, with 2 carts full of toys, a tall skinny cowboy with lady friend paying for the stuff, i make a comment with a big smile..wow! somebodys in for a awesome Christmas...
she turns and says....yup, he does this every year..
guy hands over 400.00 in cash. and they start for the door, i pay for the doggie food, and as im walking towards the door, i see them loading the toys into the toys for tots box..
i stand in awe, and walk up and shake the guys hand...tell him thats the most awesome thing iv ever seen...
one of the only things i love about this time of year, it brings out the kindness in people.
shows us that some people really do care..
i dont care for the music, and buy buy buy every time you turn around..
but a i like it when i see others helping those less fortunate.:thup:

Good to know you're not a total Scrooge! :lol: Ray

It is easy to be overwhelmed by the non-Christian aspects of Christmas! Madness, most of it!
Then you see folk like that fellow....:)

Mixed feelings about "merchants" at Christmas; they make available all the stuff we can find to give as gifts. In the same breath I'll say that too many merchants get way too heavy, way too early in the season with the "Christmas buying spirit" ethos. The cowboy and his mate are exemplary of "Christmas spirit". I will say too that a few years ago I answered a "Toys for Tots" mailing, sent in some money and got hammered with a huge number of requests for weeks for money from just about every charitable organization I can think of and for each year after. Didn't take kindly to my being "hit on" that way - never happened before that donation. Won't do that again.

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Originally Posted by old crow

Mixed feelings about "merchants" at Christmas; they make available all the stuff we can find to give as gifts. In the same breath I'll say that too many merchants get way too heavy, way too early in the season with the "Christmas buying spirit" ethos. The cowboy and his mate are exemplary of "Christmas spirit". I will say too that a few years ago I answered a "Toys for Tots" mailing, sent in some money and got hammered with a huge number of requests for weeks for money from just about every charitable organization I can think of and for each year after. Didn't take kindly to my being "hit on" that way - never happened before that donation. Won't do that again.

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I usually participate in the requests of my church during the holidays. Last year when buying toys for their "Angel Tree", I picked up some extras and made a trip to the area "Toys for Tots" drop-off. The woman at the desk asked for my name and other info. I said "No thanks, you can have the toys, but I don't want a bunch of unwanted solicitations in my mailbox".

This past summer I had to purchase a new clothes washing machine. I found out I could get a $100 rebate from the gov't if it was an energy saving model on their list. It was. I had plans to blow the $100 on a fine night out with my wife. Got to be the holidays and the church food bank needed extra stuff. I took the gummit money and spent the whole wad (plus a little more, I ain't the best shopper) on needed items and gave it to them. That kinda made me feel better about a gov't program that only wasted taxpayer $$. Why should someone get a $100 rebate on a $300 appliance?? I just did it because if the money in the appliance program wasn't used, it would go to some other useless program. Now I know at least $100 of that program money went to something usefull.