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When an Alabama man went out to eat with two buddies, he noticed an older woman eating alone in the restaurant in Oxford. My exact thoughts was dang Id hate to have to eat alone,'" writes Jamario Howard in a now-viral Facebook post, per Fox 8. Howard spoke to the woman briefly and learned that she was a widow who had gone out to eat on the eve of her 60th wedding anniversary. He gave his condolences, and she accepted his invitation to join him and his friends. "The point in this is always be kind and be nice to people," he writes. "You never know what they are going through." Read his full post, including a photo of their dinner, here.
https://www.newser.com/story/274261/a-kind-restaurant-gesture-goes-viral.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/young-man-asks-widow-eating-alone-to-join-him-this-woman-changed-my-outlook-on-life/ar-BBWd5fB
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)Thank you for sharing this.
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)is fighting some kind of battle.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Philo of Alexandria, ancient Jewish philosopher
calimary
(81,272 posts)And a STELLAR gesture to go along with it.
We should always remember this thought.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)tblue37
(65,371 posts)marble falls
(57,097 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Great group of guys. Their mothers should be proud of them. Nice to read a story such as this, with all the negativity in the news today. Thanks for posting this uplifting story.
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)Restores one's faith in humanity.
Funtatlaguy
(10,877 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Especially when our highest-ranked officials have no capacity for it, and make hay off its banishment.
Those gentlemen are heroes of love.
Needed more than ever now.
SallyHemmings
(1,821 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,411 posts)Most people are kind. We live in a world where the rare bad actor has made us fearful to reach out to the stranger. Our news media loves the sensational.
Our lives are poorer for these exaggerated narratives. We can be smart, but still open to making new relationships...some of them transient; Some of them longer term.
Our lives are all richer when we do.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)compassion and just being decent.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)What a wonderful example of the basic goodness of Americans. We need many more of these examples to go viral in the time of Trump's vast ugliness and cruelty.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)jalan48
(13,867 posts)Karadeniz
(22,521 posts)DeanMH
(12 posts)THE FOXNEWS HEADLINE READS:
Three Black Radical Democrats Kidnap A White Woman and Force Her to Starve While They Eat In Front of Her.
Welcome to DU.
senseandsensibility
(17,037 posts)for some reason my vision became blurry and I had trouble seeing. I am such a sucker for stories like this.
citizen blues
(570 posts)I live alone and have no family nearby. More often than not, I resort to take-out, so I don't have to eat alone while being surrounded by everyone else laughing and talking with their dinner companions. On the rare occasions I do go out, I equipped with my smart phone and ear buds.
spanone
(135,838 posts)catrose
(5,067 posts)I'd sure understand if they didn't!
3catwoman3
(23,994 posts)...accepted.