Today a person offered to drive me to a location that I needed to get to and even went out their way to wait for me due to some unexpected work that kept me longer than anticipated. Even though I was told that it wasn’t any trouble as he is going that direction anyways, I felt the need to give him some money at least for the gas. Therefore, I decided to give him $20. That can buy quite a bit of gas. Funny enough, I usually spend the most money abruptly this way. Not from crazy deals and sales but rather wanting to compensate people for their generosity.
Is it too overboard in your opinion? The main negative is that there are a lot of people who would take advantage of generosity like this in a manipulative way. At the same time, I personally like to reward people who kind of have a pay it forward type of mentality. It always gives me a community type of feel where it’s like you are investing in positive actions to hopefully make things great for everyone.
From my personal experience too a business scenario is bad for this. Example, someone giving you more solely as a reason to gain your trust as opposed to being a genuine action. Like everything else I suppose, you just need to recognize that not everyone is the same and so being generous still requires you to use some judgement on whether or not the person is genuinely giving help to others in a selfless way.