Our Kindness Date

Almost every week-end we spend a day in the nearby city. Usually we're running errands like picking up supplies for the shop or grocery shopping. Every week-end it seems the stores are getting busier and busier with christmas shoppers. Understandable! Tis the season! But every weekend everyone seemed to be getting more and more stressed and we found we were getting in worse moods too by the end of the day. So we decided to try to change that on our city trip this past weekend.

We drove through 3 Tim Hortons drive thrus and purchased gift cards. Then when they handed them to us we handed it back with a tip and asked that they keep the tip and use the card to buy people's coffees behind us. 

Then we picked the longest drive thru line-up we could find where we thought the people running the windows would be most stressed and grumpy. Mc Donalds won with a 15-20 minute wait. We had previously bought itunes gift cards so we were happy there were two different windows at this drive thru! We handed one to each of them as we paid for and received our bottled water. 

When we ate lunch at a restaurant we had such a friendly waitress! So we left a nice tip and I had previously wrapped up one of my favorite necklaces I make in my shop (leaving my shop name off everything). I hope it brightened her day a little!

We had SUCH a great day! We didn't feel any stress after when we braved the store lines! How could you when you've had such a fun day! The look on people's faces couldn't help but put you in a good mood! We went into the day with the hope that'd it'd be a fun date we could do together and it really was! It was nice to be "stuck" in a drive thru line with no where to rush off to or nothing immediate we had to do but sit there and talk! We both said that this date is something we'd like to do more often.

While we were in one of the lines we were across the street from a bowling alley so perhaps that will be our next date activity!