My grandson miscalculated the cost of crayons, a notebook and an over-sized calculator ($1.49 for the latter!) when he went to pay and came up $1.27 short. I didn't have any cash, nor my debit card with me and was going to make him put something back when the young man who was clerking, took out a dollar of his own plus change and said no problem! My grandson was surprised and said thank you, but he didn't really catch exactly what the young man had done until we got out to the car and we told "Papa."

I thought we should pay the clerk back so we got a dollar in cash and went back. Morgan was a bit embarrassed, so we had a teaching moment about "paying it forward" and returning a kindness. He still was nervous, but went in and came back out with the dollar. The young man told him to keep it. So he got a double thank you from Morgan and Morgan got a great lesson in kindness. It's good to know there are young people such as him in the world.