She's got a ticket to ride

Meanwhile… in Nantes, France, Priscila also wanted to make her contribution to a kinder world. She left a public transportation ticket at a bus stop, with the same note, but in french! How glamorous!

She also told me that when she came back, the ticket was gone, but there wasn’t any “Thank You” left, and that made her a bit sad. I totally know what she means, but I wouldn’t worry too much if I were Priscila. I recently read about a research that Alice Isen, a psychologist from Cornell University, developed. She wanted to measure how people react after being exposed to positive surprises. So she left some dimes in pay phones and after people hang up, another person would be passing by and dropped a stack of paper. Those people who found the phone with extra money were much more inclined in helping the others than those who didn’t have gained anything.

So, maybe this person didn’t directly thank her, but probably did something nice to someone else at another part of her day. And so the story goes, and Priscila is the one to blame! : )