A very nice lady from the market

A very similar thing happened to me about 10 years ago, and I hadn't thought of it until I read your post. The florist that I occasionally ordered flowers from was family run. The elderly woman of the family was the original owner. She was maybe in her 80's. I had never seen her before. On this particular day she was in the shop and as I was waiting for my arrangement to be made up she came over and started talking to me about how she & her husband had started the shop, etc. It was interesting to me and she was so nice. Then she asked if I would like to see outside in the back where they had first started growing their flowers. She took me on a tour, it wasn't a huge area, maybe as big as 2 large backyards. It only took about 15 minutes altogether and we went back inside. My flowers were ready and she reached over and picked a beautiful rose from a bunch behind the counter and gave it to me. She was smiling so brightly and I thanked her so much. She told me I was so nice to listen to her going on about the shop. I left and, walking back to my car I realized that I was smiling. I got in the car, looked in the mirror and I had a smile on my face that wouldn't go away. It was such a nice thing for her to do. And it made my day. I know exactly how you felt!

Wow! That is so nice of the vendor. Maybe she saw your face lit up when you saw the flowers that's why she gave you additional ones. I don't think I haven't seen a ginger flower though. I usually see roses, daisies and carnation when I go to some of the flower stalls near our place. There's not much choices.

oh so that is a ginger flower?? now i know! We have that at my brother-in-law's garden! he sells those plants too and they call it TORCH flower as it looks like a flaming torch.. he planted it at first for his wife..and then eventually they started selling it too among other plants they sell.

oh wow that is so nice then! but i wonder what is a ginger flower..let me look it up.

Awww that's so sweet. It's always a pleasant surprise to have someone do things like those for you. One time we were on tour and were buying some candied peanuts from a vendor. She gave us lots of freebie peanut candies when she noticed we were tourists!

It's nice to know that there are still nice vendors out there. A lot of them aren't very honest just so they could earn a bit more. That lady is very generous and obviously, she doesn't really care much about her earnings. Right now, I can't think of any instance of having shown kindness and generosity from a vendor.