'I don't like it, I love it'

Dedicated $10-an-hour factory worker, who walks 21 miles to work EVERY DAY because he can't afford a car, breaks down as he's given a brand new Ford by well-wishers moved by his story.

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Ohio  boy, 8-year old Miles Echard finds $20.00 bill in restaurant parking lot, plans immediately formulate automatically, a world of possibilities opens in an instant, video game! His immediate plan changes immediately, touching story evolves. 

And so the life pattern is set early for Miles and an early lesson learned, money is like water, Miles, easy come, easy go, right though your little fingers, they cannot hold onto it. 

Unless you try super hard and deny all impulses to part with it, and prevail with everything pulling against it. You must be a true miser to do all that  and who wants to do that? Some do. Saving must be the main thing, the overriding urge for years on end, and there must be enough money around to do that or else urgencies take it away.

The great part of that pattern is easy come.

Pay it forward. Good grief. Was it requirement to introduce bathos to a perfectly good story with that unthinking sniffing ostinato?  Is this not a child displaying generosity of spirit to a grown man in or near retirement self-actualized in every way and basically playing with airplanes an example of paying it backward not forward? What a stupid way to tag generosity with a banal impulse, the kind that is spurred by a grave and gaping psychological and emotional hole.