I mean, who hasn't? And isn't it nice to imagine ourselves handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and playing Santa a month later and just being the post-nightmare Scrooge all over town.
What's also nice, to me, is hearing about someone who has some bucks and is willing to share his or her good fortune.
I read about a woman named Therra, whose luck had been in the dumper, and a friend sent her a Whole Foods gift card. Off to the market went Therra, "with a relief I haven't felt all month."
But then it got better! She took her $375 order up to the cashier, and the guy in front of her offered to cover the whole thing, allowing her to save the gift card until later!
Therra asked the munificent stranger for his name, and he just said he was "Chris."
And the cashier said, "You know, that's Ludacris, right?"
Ludacris is the show name of Atlanta's Chris Bridges, born in 1977, featured in Forbes list titled "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" for earning $8 million in 2014. He's a big star in the world of hip-hop music, and he's also an actor. (I remember seeing him on "SVU" one time, and although I must plead to being a stranger to his music, it's clear that lots of people are big fans, so good for him!)Well, the New York Times never fails, and they looked into Therra's story once it raced across social media. Turns out, they were able to track down over 100 stories about Ludacris picking up someone's grocery tab, not only in Whole Foods, but also in Publix, Costco, and other stores in the US and Canada. Ludacris's manager, Chaka Zulu, told the Times, "Luda does these things all the time. But he doesn't want to do interviews to highlight it. It's just his heart."
And there's even more! Luda, as he apparently likes to be called, has set up the Ludacris Foundation, to help urban youth get a leg up on successful lives. And Therra has gotten back on her feet and raised $1200 for the foundation!
"Be like Ludacris y'all," she wrote on Facebook.
Not bad advice at all!
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