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As I look through my eyes of Curi Osity I ask you, “Has anyone ever paid it forward to you? Have you ever paid it forward to anyone?” It happened to me and it was a great feeling. He’s my story:

Many years ago I remember returning home traveling from Milwaukee to Minneapolis. Before I left Minneapolis for Milwaukee I had just put four brand new Seiberling tires on my car plus a full size spare tire. In route to Milwaukee one of my tires blew out on the car where the plies had separated. I continued with my journey to Milwaukee. After spending a couple of days in Milwaukee I jumped back in my car and started heading back home to Minneapolis. When I got close to the Wisconsin Dells area while driving on the freeway I had a second blowout. This time I had no spare tire. I was helpless on the side of the road. A gentleman pulled up in his vehicle and told me that he would take me to the gas station to get a new tire. The gas station was about five miles down the road and he waited with me for about a hour until a new tire was installed on the rim that had the blowout. The gentleman then drove back five miles to my vehicle. I offered to give the man money for his inconvenience. The gentleman refused to take any money whatsoever. What the gentleman did say to me was that if you ever come across someone who needed help please pay it forward to them. He also informed me that someone had paid it forward to him so he paid it forward to me.

Sure enough as time passed a time came when I came across someone along the side of the highway in Minneapolis. I stopped along the side of the highway to help him and he, too, offered to pay me. I explained to him how someone had helped me and that all he asked was that I would pay it forward to someone who needed help. I told the man that I was helping and that I also didn’t want any money but that if he ever came across someone who needed help to pay it forward to them, and he agreed. We both had a real good feeling as we left. The bottom line is when you pay it forward to others you also reap the reward from acts of good faith and so does everyone else.