r/nothingeverhappens 21h ago

Because Random Acts of Kindness don't exist...

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u/NeilJosephRyan 19h ago

Offer to go ahead of her? Sure, absolutely.

Offer to pay? Not likely.

Offer to pay WHILE SHE'S APPARENTLY STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY? I mean, stranger things have happened, but I can see why she's struggling financially. She's just not bright.

No, I don't think this happened.

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u/Suzina 20h ago

Probably not true. She had tears? She offered to pay for a single item when she's struggling to pay rent? Hmmm.

More common is someone with a full cart offering to let you go ahead in line, that happens.

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u/Clean-Ad-4308 18h ago

Right? I've never seen or heard of anyone ever offering to buy a random strangers grocery item before.

Prime thathappened material.

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u/NightStar79 15h ago

Are you being serious? I've had that happen before when I went shopping and there was a glitch with the card reader. I don't carry cash, or checks soooo I was kind of stuck as I needed the items as it was food for my pets and I was out.

Person behind me offered to pay as it was literally just two dry food bags. I couldn't stop thanking them.

Also got into a funny dynamic with some Physics Majors in college. I worked at my college library and they usually took the table near the front desk. One day they asked if I could watch their stuff while they went to go get food and I said sure and off they went. 30 minutes later they came back and gave me some of those fried apple things Taco Bell sold as a dessert. I was surprised but accepted it.

There was a tiny Starbucks on the main floor (my floor was the basement, serial department soooo basically newspapers and magazines) and I offered to buy them something when I went up to go get a snack. Wound up buying one of them a Monster Energy and we kept that up until the end of they year and they graduated.

I had no idea they were all Seniors until they didn't show up the next year šŸ¤·

Some people really are this nice. I've even offered to pay for the person in front of me at the store if they were having problems.

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u/Capn_Nutt 11h ago

This is different. Someone offering to get your items bc there's an issue with your payment is not the same as someone randomlu offering to buy your item simply bc you only have one item lol Especially not if they're struggling to pay rent

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u/Ok_Spell_4165 16h ago

Depending on what the item was, say under $2 I could see it.

But yeah more than likely made up crap.

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u/Chaos-Corvid 19h ago

Nothing about this story makes sense

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u/JP198364839 21h ago

Tbf, that has shitty LinkedIn post written all over it. Inclined to think itā€™s probably not true.

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u/AGiantBlueBear 20h ago

Itā€™s the tears that make it a thathappened. And anytime Iā€™ve been in this situation the person just asks if I want to go first they donā€™t offer to pay

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u/dmcent54 19h ago

I'd agree with the OOP, this probably didn't happen. She let him go with one item, so he paid for her entire cart? This shit doesn't happen outside of youtube videos and streamer shit.

Most real people can't affort to pay for an entire cart of groceries for a stranger.

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u/Lylibean 17h ago

Yeah, no, this is fake asf. A person who is so broke they canā€™t pay rent despite having a ā€œfull cartā€ of groceries offers to pay for some randoā€™s single item they went all the way into a grocery store for? The ambiguous ā€œsingle itemā€ and not ā€œjust a bag of dog foodā€ or ā€œjust a jug of laundry detergentā€? The ā€œtears streamingā€ bit really dials up the fantasy.

Iā€™ve been a person at the grocery store who canā€™t afford rent many times in my life, and I guarantee I didnā€™t have a ā€œfull cartā€, or probably any cart at all because I could barely afford the few items I can easily carry in my hands. And I sure as hell didnā€™t have even a penny to spare on someone elseā€™s ā€œsingle itemā€.

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u/Joelle9879 16h ago

Eh, not specifically stating what the single item doesn't make this fake. It's irrelevant to the rest of the story. If it was "this lady with a full cart let me go ahead of her because I only had a single item" it would sound fine. It's the rest of the story that makes this sound fake.

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u/Ok_Spell_4165 16h ago

It is somewhat relevant because of the rest of the story.

Buying a half gallon of milk? Sure, she is struggling to pay rent but feeling generous and forks over the $2

Buying a steak? That $15+ is no longer any more believable than the rest of the story.

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u/Goroman86 20h ago

Nah, the syntax is all wrong and it doesn't make sense. Probably AI slop

"I'll pay for it with my groceries" makes 0 sense

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u/SquidArmada 19h ago

I interpreted it as "I'll pay for your thing when I pay for my thing."

Either way, it still looks fake af

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u/KaralDaskin 19h ago

ā€œIt (along) withā€ Even with the implied word missed that phrase makes sense.

I agree this one sounds fake, though. Just not for that reason.

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u/Goroman86 19h ago

More that the first "line" of dialog from the "poor person" included "I'll pay for yours"

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u/NeilJosephRyan 19h ago

No, it DOES make grammatical sense. Syntax is the last thing that makes this fake.

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u/tipareth1978 12h ago

How could someone pay the bill when the stuff hasn't been scanned yet?

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u/trickman01 9h ago

Not everything in /r/thathappened belongs here.

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u/KaralDaskin 19h ago

/editā€”It posted in the wrong spot. I moved it.

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u/Joelony 5h ago

OP wants this to be real, but just because it gives us "the feels" doesn't mean it's not bullshit. Kind of like Hallmark movies.