When Did Kindness Become a Transaction?

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:29.8	I received this this morning from Teresa, and she said she got it off Facebook.
0:34.6	And a lot of what is on Facebook isn't real.
0:43.1	It's AI. I don't care. This is nice.
0:53.2	Okay? Post it on Facebook. Person writes, I was walking to the register of the dollar store today,
0:55.7	arms full of paper towels and cleaning products, when I noticed a woman at the register ahead of me, she couldn't have been
1:00.8	taller than five feet, mid to late 80s, wearing her Sunday best, a light blue suit matching
1:09.0	hat, string of pearls that caught the fluorescent light.
1:13.2	She was beautiful in that dignified, old-fashioned way that makes you want to stand up a little
1:19.1	straighter, just being near to her.
1:22.9	But her hands were trembling.
1:25.8	She was trying over and over to punch her pin into the card reader.
1:29.5	It beep, blinked, red, and refused her again. Behind me a man sighed loud enough for everyone
1:35.2	in the checkout line to hear, come on, he muttered, shifting from one foot to the other like she
1:41.6	was stealing time. He would never get back the cashier
1:46.0	bless her heart tried to stay patient but you could see the tension in her shoulders too
1:50.0	that mixture of sympathy and schedule that retail workers live under so I stepped
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