Week Thirty Seven: Buying Time for a Stranger’s Expired Parking Ticket.

As I was biking in the market this morning, I noticed a by-law officer roaming around the parked cars. He was viciously sticking tickets onto people’s windshields. “Hmm,” I thought, “maybe I could spare a poor sap from getting a ticket.” So I put a dollar in the machine and looked around for an almost expired ticket on a dashboard. I found one with 5 minutes to go so I tucked the new ticket under their windshield.

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I did a couple of errands in the area and about fifteen minutes later, I saw the owner and a friend standing next to their vehicle, laughing and taking pictures of the mysteriously newly acquired ticket. As I usually don’t see the reactions of my “victims of kindness”, this sight really put a smile on my face.

It was nice to see the affect that a small thoughtful thing can have on others.   

G.

Week Thirty Six: Leaving a Little Taste of Summer in a Random Mailbox.

This week, Summer consumed and inspired me. I wanted to do something topical so I decided to head to the grocery store and get the most summer-inspired drink there is; ice tea. I wrote a small note and dropped it off in a random mailbox in the Glebe.

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I’m hoping this gave the recipient of this beverage a little push to go out and experience the last bits of the season with the people who mean the most to them.

G.

Week Thirty Five: Leaving Change at a Pay Phone in a Bus Terminal.

Yesterday, as I was traveling back from Newmarket for the Labour Day long weekend, I noticed a couple of Bell pay phones in the Toronto Union Station Greyhound bus terminal. I figured it would be nice to leave some change behind - perhaps for someone who’s phone died and desperately needed to call a loved one to come pick them up, or for an international traveler who did not have the change in the right currency in order to call a friend? 

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Who knows who actually used it. All I hope is for that one phone call to have helped someone out in some way.

G.