Sometimes, It Just Needs To Be Said...
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When it comes to memorable meals, this one is difficult to beat. It all began when a young couple was out for dinner in Boston about three years ago. They were young, in love, and it showed.
According to Richard Branson, who tells the tale on his blog at Virgin.com, a generous man by the name of Pankaj Shah was dining there as well. He had the wonderful habit of anonymously paying for people’s meals when he was dining out. On that particular night, he asked restaurant staff to find “the couple who looked most in love.”
They did, and Shah went on about his way, probably never giving them too much more thought beyond hopes that they enjoyed the meal. But when he returned to Boston three years later, something really amazing happened.
He went back to the restaurant to eat, and the manager came up and told him that the same couple he had paid for three years ago was there again, right then. What a coincidence, right?!
The manager said he knew it was them because the “dude just got down on one knee and proposed.” When he asked them why they’d chosen that particular restaurant, he said:
The guy said they were sitting at that same table three years ago and some stranger paid for their meal and made them think about kindness and love and they’ve been talking about it ever since. They’ve incorporated it into their lives and said there was no other place he could have proposed, it was their most impactful memory.
Do you have goosebumps? I sure do. While the couple has remained anonymous themselves so far, according to Branson, they did invite Shah to their wedding.
I love this story for so many reasons. First, just the fact that they were there enjoying a meal with no expectations of anything but paying their bill when all of a sudden a kind stranger swoops in and makes it amazing. Regardless of your financial situation, that has to be such an amazing, unexpected treat. There aren’t many true (good) surprises in life once you’re an adult, and this surely has to be one of them. I so want to do this for someone sometime.
Also, there are so many unfortunate stories that happen in restaurants these days it seems. From servers calling people offensive names on their bills to patrons who refuse to tip for the jerkiest of reasons. But the fact is that while these stories make headlines, most people dine out and have perfectly lovely experiences. Maybe not as lovely as the one this couple had, but still it’s not as bad out there as it sometimes seems. In fact, it can be quite amazing.
(via incrediblydopeminds)
How to pet cats and dogs.
What this chart indicates is that cats are able to state what they want from the petting interaction, which leads to a more honest, deeper pet-and-pet-owner relationship. Dogs just lie there and let the pet-owner do his bidding like a woman of the wharf would a grizzled merchant marine holding a twenty-dollar bill. On another note, why would you pet a cat’s leg you perv?
Via Happy Place
Chinese IKEA stores overrun with people sleeping, eating, and making out on their furniture.
We suddenly feel less guilty for leaving our soda on a Bjursta table that one time. We like to tell ourselves in America that we are tough customers. Fortunately and unfortunately, we’re kidding ourselves. We don’t haggle well, we’re polite to shopkeepers, and we generally don’t climb on top of the products and fall asleep. The Chinese? The Chinese know how to be rude, and that’s why this century will belong to them. IKEA opens up a warehouse full of sample bedrooms? Great, let’s go grab some Z’s so we don’t have to change our sheets today. Our teens go to the mall and make out in the food court, their kids climb into bed in front of everyone and start sucking face. So do your patriotic duty and start being insanely rude in public, and secure America’s future. Don’t mind me, I’m just waiting for my pants to dry in the appliances department. This is dangerously close to becoming a retail section of its own. “We never have sex in IKEA anymore. You just look at that damn phone!” “Huh? No, that light takes LED bulbs only. Now leave me alone and let me sleep.”
Via Happy Place
The Future of Force. LF1 drops today at 12:12pm exclusively at Pivot Point—620 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.
How disappointing…
3rd floor men’s restroom. No paper towels at all. Trash on the floor. Very dirty.
But it’s so funny!
