NICE Testimonial: Free Laundry Day

Hi there! How are you guys doing today? I'm so psyched it's Friday. I have a big night of fun planned. Going out to celebrate a friend's birthday and then going dancing. Whoop whoop! It's like pulling teeth convincing someone to go dancing with me, so tonight is a real treat. Tomorrow hopefully I'll have time to start preparing for the HOW Design Conference in Austin. I leave in a week and a half. And then Sunday we're going to see the Red Sox (my hubby's favorite team) play the Phillies. Fingers crossed for good weather! I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend planned as well!

Today's testimonial comes from Alexandra, who was the recipient of a nice deed when she was in college.

I went to the basement laundry room in my dorm one afternoon with the largest pile of laundry known to man. I had just gotten in there when I saw someone near the door, but I really wasn't paying much attention. I loaded up four washing machines full of clothes and went to go scan my card in the payment machine (we didn't use quarters, you always had to scan your student ID and it charged to your account.) When I attempted to scan my card, it said the washers were already paid for. I was a little confused and worried that I accidentally took over someone's washing machines. I looked around, but there was no one standing outside or anything, so I just assumed it was free laundry day (sometimes the student council in our building would buy out the machines for the day.) I went back to my room to wait for a half an hour until I could switch out my laundry.

After the time had passed I went back downstairs only to find four notes on each of my washers saying, "sometimes good things happen to good people for no reason." Now I know it wasn't a huge gesture, but it completely made my whole week. Here I am, just loading a bunch of clothes into all of these washers, and some nice person went ahead and paid for all of my machines while I wasn't looking. The nicest thing about it is, he didn't even stick around so I could thank him or anything! It was just a nice gesture from a stranger who I will never know. It reminds me what kind of wonderfully nice people are in this world. =)

The only down side of the story is that before I found the notes, I told some people on my floor that it was free laundry day, haha. Thankfully, they weren't too bummed after I told them the story.

When you're a poor college student surviving on ramen noodles, something like four free loads of laundry can make such a huge difference! And I love the saying on that note. "Sometimes good things happen to good people for no reason." I'm going to have to file that one away for future use. :)

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