This Man Died 24 Hours After Picking Up A Grocery Bill For A Total Stranger
All he wanted was for her to pay it forward — so she is.
Jamie-Lynne Knighten spent only a few minutes with Matthew Jackson before his sudden death, but it's a few minutes she'll never forget.
Knighten, originally from Toronto, met Jackson during a stressful grocery shopping trip earlier this month in California.
With a fussy, jet-lagged baby in tow, she was at the checkout line when she realized she'd forgotten her debit card at home. She scrambled for her Canadian credit card.
"Swipe... Decline.. Swipe.. Decline..." she wrote on Facebook. Having forgotten to tell her bank she'd be travelling, they had locked her account. As she tried to call her bank, her phone died.
That's when Jackson spoke up. "May I?" he asked. She was so overwhelmed, he repeated the offer: "May I? May I take care of your groceries?"
She said no, at first. Then he offered one more time.
"This time I look at him and he says 'I would be glad to take care of your groceries as long as you promise to do it for someone else...' and I came to realize how much it would mean to him if I humbly accepted," wrote Knighten. "So I did."
Now in tears, she thanked him and asked for his name as he picked up the $200 bill.
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