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This is a fairly new website, a couple weeks old, so I'll go first. I was having breakfast at Denny's one morning, and as I was paying, I was watching this young girl of maybe five or six, trying desperatly to get this doll out of the skill crane machine. Being proficient in things such as skill cranes, and after watching her face fall when her mother told her she could not throw any more money into the machine, I quietly went up to the machine and stuck in a dollar. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the girl peeking around the half wall, watching me with the intensity that only a child could have. On my second and final try, I tipped the doll into the basket and bent down to pick it up. The girl had seen me win her prize doll, ran back to her table, and immediatly began to cry. I dusted the doll off, walked over to the table, and handed it over to her with a grin. Well just about everybody in the place got teary eyed at the gesture, except for the child, who clutched the doll like she would never let it go, and beamed up at me like I was her hero. I smiled back at her, and turned and quietly left. Its things like that that people remember, and think twice when they have the decision to stand by and do nothing, or help someone out. They remember the time somebody randomly did something good for them.

I guess I'm falling back on the random acts of kindness standby, but deep down, I believe in it. Its sometimes the small things that matter the most, that can make the biggest impact on those who would otherwise think differently.