pretty cool christmas story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bus_santa Bus riders get gifts from Secret Santa Sat Dec 23, 1:49 PM ET SPOKANE, Wash. - A woman hopped aboard buses, greeted passengers with "Merry Christmas" and handed each an envelope containing a card and a $50 bill before stepping off and repeating the process on another bus. She did it so quickly that descriptions of the woman varied among surprised Spokane Transit Authority passengers on several routes Thursday, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported Friday. "She kind of kept her head down. I don't remember ever seeing this lady before," said bus driver Max Clemons. "I had a young man in the back of the bus. He looked like he was going to start crying. He said in broken English, 'She don't know how much this will mean to me at Christmas,'" Clemons said. Transit authority spokesman Dan Kolbet said efforts to identify the gift-giver were unsuccessful. Her generosity didn't appear to be part of a marketing gimmick, he said. The woman gave envelopes to about 20 passengers, he said. Each was sealed with a sticker that said: "To a friend from a friend." The woman, accompanied by one or two young boys, pulled the envelopes out of a cloth satchel. The buses were pulling away from stops before riders even knew what happened. "There was a lot of excitement. People were making calls on their cell phones," said driver Terry Dobson, who had two of his trips visited by the mystery woman. "The people on those buses really needed the money." Hours after the impromptu gift-giving, Dobson was still giddy. "It was just a neat thing," he said. "It makes you tingle all over."

Pretty cool! Nice post :dthumb: Thats crazy tho that they couldnt find her after all that.

Pretty cool! Nice post :dthumb: Thats crazy tho that they couldnt find her after all that. That's what makes it a great story. Completely anonymous is the best way charity should be done. Celebrities/Sports teams doing charitable things in the community just doesn't mean as much when they have a camera crew following them around.

That's what makes it a great story. Completely anonymous is the best way charity should be done. Celebrities/Sports teams doing charitable things in the community just doesn't mean as much when they have a camera crew following them around. Yeah what I meant was that they usually find people after stuff like that but :iagree: people doing it anonymously makes it more of a charitable deed.

Yeah what I meant was that they usually find people after stuff like that but :iagree: people doing it anonymously makes it more of a charitable deed. Yeah, I know what you meant. :iagree:

pretty neat, wonder if it was a celebrity undercover? :scratch:

OK I admit it.......

OK I admit it....... That you are a woman :lol:

That is just a great great story. Brings a tear to your eye..ya know. The kind of thing you want to hear about around these times. It helps off set the kidnapping santa stories. Thanks for sharing it....REPT! If I was like a millionare or whatever, I would do that all day long one day.

Cool:dthumb:

That you are a woman :lol: Dang......a little self ownage......:lol:

That's what makes it a great story. Completely anonymous is the best way charity should be done. Celebrities/Sports teams doing charitable things in the community just doesn't mean as much when they have a camera crew following them around. There was a feature on the NBC nightly news the other night about a 59 year old man in Missouri who's been doing the same sort of thing for the last 20 years or so. They estimate that over the last 20 years, he's given out over a million dollars. He simply hands out $100 bills to those who he feels need/deserve the money. This was the first year he's allowed his name to be mentioned, as he said he wants others to recognize those around them who need the help, and do the same thing (he said even if it's not $100, even if it's just baking cookies for the neighbor across the street). He went on to say (with regard to WHO he gives to) "When you see a mother with 5 children in a store parking lot, trying to cram them all into a rusty old beat up car, it's a no-brainer." About 30 years ago, he was homeless, and lived in his car for 8 days... a diner owner gave him $20, and he vowed never to forget that... and that's why he does it. Now apparently he has cancer, and starts chemo early next year.... that breaks my heart. Not that anyone DESERVES cancer, but for someone who tries to give so much, it just doesn't seem fair.

On another note.... we went to the Jaguars game yesterday... as we're being herded up the ramps and escalators into the stadium, there's an older man a few steps ahead of us with a handful of envelopes with names on them. He was stopping and handing them to every usher/stadium employee that we passed along the way (and from what I could tell, they were all personalized). Not sure if it was money or a gift card of some sort, but I just thought that was really sweet.

That's what makes it a great story. Completely anonymous is the best way charity should be done. Celebrities/Sports teams doing charitable things in the community just doesn't mean as much when they have a camera crew following them around. :iagree: Good story.

o btw the JAGS GOT OWNED :zowned: http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/363/bradyvx5.jpg (http://imageshack.us) besides that.... that is a great story, I always give to people who i see begging in the subways or stuff like that....i think to myself heck whats a few bucks i mean the kid from home alone said it best "I'd just use the money on stuff that would rott my teeth and my brain". Props to all those people:cheers: