Well one of the kinder and dumber things I have done this year I did drunk. I gave an old asian man who was a bathroom attendant at this club I was in $100 that I really could not afford to give because I felt like he was a "Master of his craft." The guy only offered me a towel to dry my hands...

I am too generous period, but way too much when drunk.

Not counting drinking escapades I worked in tangent with one of my friends and flew to another island to make sure my other friend back home had some of his old friends with him on his birthday. He is feeling down and kind of trapped because he has a kid with a nearly insufferably insecure and controlling women who really has no reason to be insecure with my friend. So we pooled our money and visited him. We got him wasted and he loved it. He had no idea we were coming. He was like

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I also bought my gf a Wii for christmas...I dunno if that is kind though because I knew she wanted it but I really wanted to play Skyward Sword as well. Ha!

As for animals...other than taking good care of my dog I think the kindest thing I did for animals was swerving out of my way to avoid killing a clan of chickens in my truck over the summer.
