1. Kmart layaway accounts paid off by mysterious donors

    blaaargh:

    The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

    He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.

    “She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,’” recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”

    At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

    Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.

    I love stories like this.

    (Source: blaaargh)

    December 29, 2011
    1. edexpression reblogged this from blaaargh
    2. oneofmyturns reblogged this from oedipusrexrexrex and added:
      i bursted out in tears reading this. even though not all the money i get put into my account is mine i try to spend it...
    3. oedipusrexrexrex reblogged this from ginancom and added:
      this is the kind of stuff I’ll be doing if I ever become rich.
    4. dandyasfuck reblogged this from ginancom
    5. ginancom reblogged this from blaaargh and added:
      love stories like this.
    6. bananderson said: I must be going through some hormonal changes because I’m crying in my office at work after reading this…
    7. dan-frost said: I think she thought she was Oprah.
    8. 1945 said: This is really sweet. It’s nice to hear there are people with hearts still out there somewhere.
    9. blaaargh posted this