Paying it forward...

[TheKittensMEOW]

When you have the opportunity to 'pay it forward' what do you do?

If you had the chance to pay it forward, who would you choose and why or what would you do?

 

[needinit]

Paid for my order and the one behind me at the Tims drive thru this morning - I do it every Monday as a nice little Monday morning gesture for another person

 

[LKD]

da faq u mean.

i assume you mean paying first before playing with SPs.... isn`t that the norm.

 

[djk]

da faq u mean.

i assume you mean paying first before playing with SPs.... isn`t that the norm.

 

[LKD]

oii.. don't blame me for it.. after googling, it seems like its a fairly new term established around 2000 through the movie 'pay it forward'

seems like somewhere along people just stop using language the way it is meant

 

[SofiaYork]

oii.. don't blame me for it.. after googling, it seems like its a fairly new term established around 2000 through the movie 'pay it forward'

seems like somewhere along people just stop using language the way it is meant

The concept was used as a key plot element in the denouement of a New Comedy play by Menander, Dyskolos (a title which can be translated as "The Grouch"). Dyskolos was a prizewinning play in ancient Athens in 317 BC; however, the text of the play was lost and it was not re-published until 1957.
The concept was rediscovered and described by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 25, 1784:
I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you [...] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 1841 essay Compensation,[1] wrote: "In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody."
In 1916, Lily Hardy Hammond wrote, "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward."[2]
Woody Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for winning five national titles and 13 Big Ten championships in 28 years at The Ohio State University. He misquoted Emerson as having said "You can pay back only seldom. You can always pay forward, and you must pay line for line, deed for deed, and cent for cent." He also shortened the (mis)quotation into "You can never pay back; but you can always pay forward" and variants.
The 1929 novel, Magnificent Obsession, by Lloyd C. Douglass, also espoused this philosophy, in combination with the concept that good deeds should be performed in confidence.
An anonymous spokesman for Alcoholics Anonymous said in the Christian Science Monitor in 1944, "You can't pay anyone back for what has happened to you, so you try to find someone you can pay forward."[3]
Also in 1944, the first steps were taken in the development of what became Heifer Project, one of whose core strategies is "Passing on the Gift".
The term "pay it forward" was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein in his book Between Planets, published in 1951

The term.. and the action.. has been around for a while. Should try it....

 

[Thunderballs]

If I paid it forward, I'd want some change back because you know somewhere along the line some prick won't pay up.

 

[rld]

I do it all the time. Much more senior guys helped me learn my profession, and my early clients were very tolerant of my learning curve.

So now I mentor young lawyers, do a lot of CLE (for free) and take on cases that arn't always about the money.

 

[doggystyle99]

How did you get two different handles?

Thekittensmeow- sofia labella
sofiayork

 

[lighthouse boy]

I was at a Sonic drive thru one nite and there was a big truck and the driver was nice enough to turn off his lights (hence, not making the interior of my car looking like Richard Dreyfess' truck in CE3K) .. so I told the drive thru person I would paid for their meal.

I was driving cross the Bay Bridge (from Oakland to San Francisco) and it was $5. I gave the tollperson a ten and say I'm paying for the driver behind me. She ask if I was driving with that person and I said 'no' and she was shocked I was paying for a stranger toll!

 

[TheKittensMEOW]

How did you get two different handles?

Thekittensmeow- sofia labella
sofiayork

It's Sophia Labella. There are several sophia's/sofia's around, hence why I chose a last name. Usually helps differentiate, or it's suppose to. You know what they say about assumptions...

 

[doggystyle99]

It's Sophia Labella. There are several sophia's/sofia's around, hence why I chose a last name. Usually helps differentiate, or it's suppose to. You know what they say about assumptions...

Really interesting that you both registesred within a couple of weeks of each other.
Sofia york has never posted an ad but is an SP as it says on her profile. I tried finding a review on her and could not find anything either.
I did assume you were both the same person with different handles only moderators can resolve the issue if you are the same person or not.

 

[Starsearcher]

After having sex with an Sp and still rock hard, I offer the Sp another SOG even if it's a hh session. That's the least I can do for her to "pay it forward"

 

[TheKittensMEOW]

Really interesting that you both registesred within a couple of weeks of each other.
Sofia york has never posted an ad but is an SP as it says on her profile. I tried finding a review on her and could not find anything either.
I did assume you were both the same person with different handles only moderators can resolve the issue if you are the same person or not.

The moderators are welcome and free to 'investigate' as they wish. Would that be a concern to me? I would imagine when I stated I am not her, that should be taken as fact and not a continued dialogue deterring from the thread at hand.

You are free to be misguided by your own ignorance, but be aware that making accusations especially when unfounded and false make you look foolish. Not me. I know who I am.

back on to the thread...

went to the grocery store, ran my groceries through and forgot my change in the auto dispenser. A lady ran out to the parking lot to give it back to me. Very much appreciated.