People can be very nice sometimes....

[Dookus]

a total stranger just gave me a bunch of plants. My landscaper was buying a pond liner for a small pond I'm putting in my back yard, and a woman in line at the store asked him what he was going to put in it, plants, fish or both.

He said both.

She said "don't buy any! I have a bunch to give you." So we called her today and she invited us over and gave us a BUNCH of beautiful water plants for the pond. She also said to call her in the Spring for some other kinds of plants and for some goldfish.

A total stranger. How cool is that?

[Parche]

1. people

She probably wants you to leaf her alone!!! hahahah
She thinks your a stalk er

[redqueen]

2. Very cool.

I gave away a two of my old strollers to a couple of women that walk by my house regularly.

It makes you feel nice to do things like that. :)

[Rowdyboy]

3. Gardeners are like that

We LOVE to give stuff away because it grows so fast, you forced to throw it away if you can't find anyone to give it to.

[sangh0]

6. Yep! Right now, some nice lady is saying

how nice Dookus was to take her extra plants off her hands.

"She even came by to pick them up herself!!"

[skygazer]

4. That is nice

You know, I really do have faith in people. Maybe it's because I used to hitchhike a lot. I don't mean back in the days when everyone hitched (I did then, too). But I hitched across the country with almost no money in 1998 and I met some of the nicest people. I never ever asked anyone for anything but a ride but people were just unfailingly kind.

They'd let me sleep in their car while they got a motel room. One guy got me a motel room over my objections. They bought me food, gave me money or food, one guy brought me with him to a tourist stop that required admission, another lady put me on a bus to get me through San Francisco. A guy in Petaluma let me stay overnight at his house. A group of kids in Oregon brought me to the local casino for sodas and arcade games.

Everyone was unfailingly kind and generous and though I asked for names and addresses to pay them back, all said the same thing - "pass it on." Which I do whenever opportunity arises to do so.

I really believe that most people, if given the chance, are good people.

[put out]

5. That's nice. I'll wager she felt as good, maybe better than you.

Last night my mate paid for a checkbook-free, broke young woman's groceries. It was only 7 or 8 dollars, and he had it and she was going to have to leave without her food. He felt good; he blushed when he told it.

I felt good too.

[miss_kitty]

7. Since water plants can be very expensive...

...beyond cool! Maybe you can trade her plants. That's what gardeners do-as a matter of fact, I need to break up a bunch of stuff in my yard! but I been busy organising and inventorying a rare plant nursery. :) I just brought home a disanthus cercidifolius-rare and gorgeous!

[Dookus]

8. well I will definitely bring her a present...

it was just SOOO nice of her to do what she did. And she couldn't have been a sweeter person. I'll bring her a plant for her yard.

[JSJ]

9. was alan colmes in there w/ the other plants?