DO-GOODERS SURVEY

A survey on behalf of Vitamin Angels examined Americans’ charitable habits ahead of Giving Tuesday – a national day devoted to generosity – and found that Americans on average perform 5 good deeds per month. Here are the Top Ten Americans’ Good Deeds:
1. Helped someone with directions
2. Held the door open for a stranger
3. Let someone with fewer items go in front of you in line at a store
4. Helped someone cross the street
5. Completed a chore/errand for a family member or friend
6. Gave a dollar or so to charity when checking out while shopping
7. Donated clothes to a thrift store
8. Helped someone carry their groceries home
9. Returned a lost item that you found
10. Paid for a stranger’s meal
* Yet nobody in our house will replace the toilet paper or paper towels when they use the last one.
* “Paid for a stranger’s meal”? Like when you have relatives you hardly know over for Thanksgiving?
* Does NOT flipping off another driver count as a good deed?
* Don’t ask how many times a month we do something mean. You really don’t want to go there.
* PHONE TOPIC: Has someone done a nice thing for you lately?