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A new mom was almost moved to tears after finding $5 with an attached note in a baby feeding area at a shopping center.
Sam Fitzpatrick, 21, was taking her 10-week-old daughter inside for dinner when she recently found a handwritten note in the money at the Westfield West Lakes in Adelaide.
The note revealed that the money was a random gift left on a table for every mother to come across when they came in to feed their babies.
“It’s not lost, it’s meant for you,” it said. “Enjoy a coffee or a cold drink, because mommy, you deserve it,” read the random message (pictured)
“I felt incredibly lucky to come across something so nice, how a simple gesture can completely change someone’s day,” said mother Sam Fitzpatrick (pictured, with her 10-week-old baby)
“It’s not lost, it’s meant for you,” it said. “Enjoy a cup of coffee or a cold drink, because Mom, you deserve it.”
Mrs. Fitzpatrick said: Yahoo Australia she almost cried when she saw the message, because motherhood wasn’t ‘the easiest thing in the world’.
She had gone to the public restrooms with her partner Ben when she discovered what she believed was “a shopping list folded on itself.”
“There was a sweet note and a $5 bill,” she said. “I felt incredibly lucky to come across something so nice, how a simple gesture can completely change someone’s day.”
She then posted a photo of the note and money on an online mother group “to show that we are all traveling together.” [and] nothing beats the kindness of strangers.”
The young mother added that the random act of kindness made her realize she was never alone.
“I’m going to leave this here for a mother who needs it more than me,” she continued ABC Adelaide social media, with an image of the bill and cash on a table.
“I like the kindness of strangers.”
Her discovery was posted on Wednesday, with commentators eager to adopt the concept of prepay in their own lives.
“I’m going to do this at random,” one said, while another wrote that he’d been on the receiving end of a random gift.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick (pictured, with her partner Ben and daughter) had gone to the public toilets with Ben when she looked around and discovered what she thought was ‘a shopping list folded up on itself’
Her discovery was posted on ABC Adelaide social media on Wednesday (pictured) with commentators eager to adopt the concept of prepay in their own lives.
“Yeah, someone left a $40 Christmas note in an envelope under my car wiper three years ago,” he said.
But someone picked up the post and described a bad experience she had handing a generous gift to strangers.
“I once sent some coffee and cake to an elderly couple sitting in a cafe and they refused it and got mad at the waiter,” she said.
The servant then came back to her and said: ‘they don’t want it,’ like the generous giver’tried to look like I had no part in it.”
Sam Fitzpatrick, 21, was taking her 10-week-old daughter for dinner when she found a handwritten note wrapped in money at the Westfield West Lakes in Adelaide (pictured)
‘I have done many good deeds. Not randomly, but carefully targeted at a select few people I think deserve it,” added another.
“At a McDonald’s drive-in I ordered some food for myself and the family,” another commenter wrote.
“When I drove to the window to pay, the young man told me that the lady in the car in front of me had paid for my order.”