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A stranger paid for your purchases when your card was declined at a store. Now they are "brothers"

2023-03-09T13:46:42.707Z


Jason Boudreaux couldn't pay at a Louisiana store, and a man he spoke to in line offered to cover his bill. “She is one of the most sincere souls I have ever met,” he said.


By Joseph Lamour -

TODAY

Jason Boudreaux was waiting to pay at his local grocery store when the cashier told him his debit card did not have enough funds.

At that moment, the kindness of a stranger changed his view of his world.

On February 24, Boudreaux, a resident of the city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, shared on his Facebook profile the story of the act of kindness he experienced while buying food at Cade's Market in the city of St. Martinville.

“Much respect to this young gentleman,” Boudreaux, 46, wrote in the post with a photo of himself and a man named Kevin Jones.

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Boudreaux explained that he deposited his paycheck an hour before the photograph, thinking the money would show up in his account.

At the store, he struck up a conversation with Jones while in line at the checkout, but when he tried to pay the $30 purchase, his card was declined.

“The gentleman told me 'I'll take care of it,'” Boudreaux wrote.

“I told him no, that he probably hadn't heard the price.

He replied that yes, that he had heard it, and that he would take care of it ”.

She said she intended to pay Jones back, but was so moved by the act of kindness that she didn't even remember to ask him for her name.

“I ran to my vehicle to give him my card so I could pay him.

She told me that there was no problem, but for me it is a problem to owe money to someone, ”she wrote.

"The point is, this man helped a complete stranger and he should be recognized."

Fortunately, he found Jones pretty quickly.

A mutual friend saw her post on Facebook and put them in touch.

“I was a detective, I should have been with my pen and paper asking, 'What's your name?

What's your number?" Boudreaux told TODAY.com.

“But I got what's called goosebumps, which is French for 'frissons.'

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Boudreaux was a detective for 17 years and now works as director of sales and operations for a company that works with churches, cemeteries and other places with memorials.

The father of three children claims that one of his best friends, who is a priest, foreshadowed the kindness he experienced just before it happened.

“He said, 'Jason, have you found your ghost yet?'” he says.

“He was talking about the Holy Spirit, I always have interesting stories for him because I visit church offices and cemeteries and I told him: 'No, father, actually I'm free and I'm waiting to go shopping, that's all.

I have to buy seafood."

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Before finishing his talk, Boudreaux recalls that his friend insisted that he still had to find "his ghost."

"I told him, 'Okay, if you insist, I'll try.'"

Soon after, he bumped into Jones at the checkout line and they shared some friendly banter.

When Jones saw what was happening in front of him, she knew she had to intervene.

“Where I come from in Louisiana is not a very wealthy city.

I know that feeling,” explains Jones, who works as a trucker.

“I know the feeling of not having the exact amount of money to pay for food

.

I see a lot of people go through that and not a lot of people are willing to make a sacrifice and step up and help someone else."

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After paying the bill, Jones says he went about his day without expecting anything in return, not even telling his wife Marissa about the exchange until he got the Facebook post, plus multiple calls and messages about the man he wanted. return the favor.

“All in one day,” he says with a laugh.

After contacting him, Boudreaux invited them to "Family Day," a weekly event celebrated by his parents.

“We pick a person or they show up and say, 'Okay, I'm going to cook lobster etouffee,' 'Okay, I'm going to have a barbecue afterwards.'

It is an open invitation to everyone”, comments Boudreaux.

"People walk by, we're dancing outside, barbecuing or just snacking, Louisiana style."

While they were at the house, word got out that Jones was turning 28, so Boudreaux and the rest of the crowd improvised a "cake" of sorts to commemorate the day.

“She had a jelly donut with frosting on top and she put a candle on it,” Jones says with a laugh.

“Nobody told me what they were going to do, but the women, including my wife, came out singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Boudreaux and Jones say they keep in touch through text messages and have plans for "Family Day" and weekend outings.

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“He invites me to go to his fishing spot and every Sunday he wants me to come to his house.

The family wants to meet (my) children,” says Jones, who is also the father of three children.

When asked how he would describe their friendship, Boudreaux says he has another word for it.

"I would describe them more as brothers," he says.

"Honestly,

she's one of the most sincere souls I've ever met

, and I've met many."

“I live by a motto: 'If I have, you have,'” adds Jones.

“It doesn't matter your color, that doesn't matter to me.

We are brothers and sisters from different towns.”

Source: telemundo

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