Day 279
I’m online searching for new
ideas for random acts. I won’t
lie. It’s prompted by my friend
Matt’s quip of “You do a lot of the same things.” Lately, he’s right.
I type in “Random Act of
Kindness ideas” on Google and within seconds I’m flooded with options. Isn’t technology grand? I click through a promising list of 100
and start to peruse. Done it. Done it. Done it. Done
it. Ahhh.
Here’s something I can work
with, I think. (I won’t tell you
all I read because I’m sticking those in my back pocket for another day. It’s safe to assume singing at a
nursing home isn’t going to happen.
Even in a room full of semi-deaf patients, if I’m the singer, I don’t
see any kindness in that option.)
Instead I choose….
No, I’m not going to tell
you. I’m going to see if you can
figure it out.
It’s after-school and I’m pawing
through the boys’ backpacks, looking for clues on how they spent their
day. After years of school life
(and life with boys) I know I need more that their one-word answers to suffice
my need for details.
I pull F.’s vocabulary test from
his home folder. The teacher’s
written in neat print letters across the front Great sentences! I turn the
page over to read them for myself.
That’s when I stop. Dead.
“Uhh? F?”
“Yeah?”
“What does this say?”
Here, I’ll let you take a
look. What do you think it
says? Yeah, me too.
I’m biting on my lip to keep
from busting out laughing. Great
sentences! I think. Was the teacher having a chuckle and
wanted to alert me to the funny?
“Clench to squeeze
tightly.”
I nod my head slowly. Yes, of course. I see it now.
“Why what did you think it
said?”
“That. That’s what I thought it said.” I pull him into me and kiss his head and laugh. Random Act
of Kindness Idea #68: Make someone laugh. I hope you’re laughing, too.
