“What good deed did you do recently?”

I do little things for people as often as I can. Do you count stopping far enough back to let people turn at intersections as a “good deed?”

I was coming out of a CostCo last week and saw a woman struggling to get a carton of canned food out of her shopping cart, so I stopped and asked if I could help? She said yes, so I took a few seconds to help her unload the cart. She tried to give me money, but I wouldn’t take it.

My wife and I will oftentimes pay for the car behind us at fast food joints.

Sometimes, good deeds turn out to be very good:

Many years ago, I passed an elderly man whose car was broken down near a shopping center. I pulled into the lot and parked, then went back to where the man’s car was stopped in the roadway. I helped him push the car into the parking lot (another man stopped to help me do this) and he offered a couple coins to us. I said no, but he insisted. I thought, “It’s just a couple coins, so it’s no big deal,” and took the coins and put them in my pocket. When I finished shopping, I took a look at the coins and was very pleasantly surprised — he had given me two old gold coins! They were two $10 Indian Eagles, similar to this:

I checked online and they were priced out at over $1,000 each!

I stopped at a local coin shop one day and was talking to the owner about the coins. He told me that he probably knew who the man was, saying that there was a local elderly man with no family who had recently been diagnosed with cancer. According to the shop owner, the man had a huge collection of coins and decided that he would just give them away to anyone who “seemed nice” to him. The shop owner refused to tell me the man’s name, however…