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Ashleigh Mattern's avatar

I love this! I worked for many years in the service industry, and I always try to make eye contact and really SEE the person who is serving me. Working with the public also taught me what a big difference just a little bit of kindness can make!

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Justine Pickering, author's avatar

Great story - I love how you write about the little things in life - kindness is so easy to give and receive - but can also go unnoticed.

And unfortunately it is easy to be unkind, or not see something. To be unaware.

Yesterday I realised that I had inadvertently jumped the queue as the end of the queue wasn't obvious - where it fed into the check out area.

And it wasn't me buying something, it was my friend so we had been talking and had just walked to an empty checkout! Those in the queue were kind and didn't draw attention to our obliviousness!

But also I was kind and didn't draw it to my friend's attention as she would have been mortified.

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