Stranger’s “kind” act for a struggling single mum
A struggling single mother has been moved to tears by a stranger’s random act of kindness while doing her grocery shopping.
The mother, hailing from Ipswich in Queensland, was doing her shopping ahead of the school term starting up as she paced the aisles mentally tallying the cost of her groceries to not go over her strict budget.
As she continued to add carefully selected items to her trolley, a young girl approached her with a gift.
The girl handed her a $50 note saying it was a gift from her mother, in a random act of kindness that left her “shaking and crying”.
“I had the most incredible thing happen to me today. I'm in Woolies Riverlink in Ipswich QLD getting a few things for back to school and I'm adding my shopping up on my calculator and checking the price of EVERYTHING,” the mum wrote in a Facebook post.
“Next, a lovely little girl came up to me handing me a $50 and said 'My mummy wants to give you a gift', I said 'Thank you, have the wrong person, honey'.”
The young girl assured the woman she was the person her mum wanted to give the $50 to and ran off before she could say anything else.
“I looked up at her mum shaking and in tears and she gave me a nod and a thumbs up,” the woman said.
“She had no idea just how much I needed this right now. Her kindness meant the world to me.”
Many applauded the stranger’s generosity as more families are feeling the pressure with sky-rocketing costs of living, with like-minded budgeting mothers sharing how they were touched by the sweet story.
“Made me cry this lovely Sunday morning. Always gives hope to know there are some really wonderful people out there,” one person said.
“There are some truly wonderful people in the world! You don't have to give someone $50 to make their day - any small kind gesture can change the course of someone's life,” a second agreed.
“There are some absolute angels out there for sure!” said another.
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