[Lord Delmar]

Hehe, the OP posting this reminded me of what I did a few months ago. Completely forgot about it, namely because it just seemed like the right thing to do, but..


Keep in mind, I live in an Army town, meaning there is a base connected to the town I live in.


A few months ago I was in a Sprint store exchanging my wifes' blackberry for a Palm Centro and this lady came in and was trying to buy a 'cheap' phone to be able to talk to her husband in Iraq. Her old one got thrown into the toilet by her little girl and it was her only means of talking to her husband. After eavesdropping on the conversation for a bit (I was waiting for the rep to finish the ESN swap) she said that he had just enlisted and they didn't have alot of money and she could not afford a new phone out of contract and was hoping for just a cheap used phone.


I looked at my wife and smiled, went to my car and got out an old Samsung phone I had kept as our 'dire emergency' phone and brought it in to her. Told her that we did not need it any longer and that being a former military man myself, I figured it was the least I could do.


She stood there and looked at me for like 5 minutes while I finished up and got our things together. Then asked me what I wanted in return. I told her I just wanted her to do the same for someone else when she could and walked out. I dunno, I just figured that since I had the extra phone and she needed it, that I should give it to her. Never once though about it being anything or getting anything in return, just about it being right.