Now imagine if employers were forced to pay living wages. Crazy I know. Then we wouldn't have $40 feel good stories.

Did you ever hear about that Harvard experiment where they gave money to random college students?

They told half the people to spend that money on themselves and the other half to spend it on somebody else. Here's a quote from an article talking about the study - “We found that people who spent the money on themselves that day weren’t happier that evening,” said Norton, “but people who spent it on others were. The amount of money, $5 or $20, didn’t matter at all. It was only how people spent it that made them happier.”

Humans are truly social creatures and I'm glad you got to experience the joy that it is to help a member of your community in their time of need. It can be quite fulfilling.

good god, someone put this on r/iamverysmart

Yep https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/jm39o7/tifu_tipping_140_to_a_pizza_delivery_driver/

This is the most wholesome TIFU I’ve ever read.

It's been many years, but I look back with fond memories of drunk people watching the game; inviting me into their house to have a beer and /or a slice with them for 5 minutes.

Yeah, I thought so too, and those exact parts of it stood out to me as well. Found this one from a couple years ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/jm39o7/tifu_tipping_140_to_a_pizza_delivery_driver/

It's not word for word, but like someone instructed chatgpt to rewrite a story but keep the details similar.

And the OP here looks like an OF bot account anyway, so...

You are a kind soul.

You seem like a fun and pleasant person to be around.

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Today I Felt Unselfish

You're a good person. I would have done the same thing.

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As a well respected artist once said, you had a "happy accident".

That can go both ways, too. I remember being a broke ass college student and tipping a Dennys waitress some crazy amount (like rounding up our $15 to $50) and seeing how much the server appreciated it made me feel happier. It’s been many many years and I still remember how little it cost me to make someone else happy.

There's a difference between the content of speech and the style of delivery.

Thank you for not asking for it back! I used to be a counter girl and I’ll never forget the delivery driver stories. My favorite was this regular who was TERRIBLE to the drivers and never tipped. Except for ONCE, she said “keep the f*cking change” like it was a big deal, I believe it was around $0.70…

If this happened to me I wouldn't want to order from the same place again in case the driver shows up and is disappointed when he just gets a normal tip :(

beautiful. thank you for sharing

Thanks for being a stand up human, OP!

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Is this just a paraphrase of this popular post from 2 years ago? Lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/jm39o7/tifu_tipping_140_to_a_pizza_delivery_driver/

What?

Awesome thing to do made me smile 😊