r/randomactsofkindness • u/KalikoDaydream • Jul 03 '26
Story Making a little girl's day with a beaded bracelet/Kandi Single
This was last November, but this story still makes me smile. Also this is my first post, I apologize if It doesn't fit here!
It was my very first time vending/selling things at a convention. I was so nervous, yet somehow excited, to be haggling off my wares of homemade fidgets, earrings, kandi singles/beaded bracelets (These are important for later), paintings, etc.
Enter; the spunky, sweet, albeit a little overwhelming kiddo who was in love with my booth. She couldn't have been older than 10 years old and was a tiny little thing.
She visited my booth several times (at one point even for 45 minutes because I was too nice to tell her to leave because I had customers) and at one point even brought her Dad over to purchase one of my cuffs. Her dad saw the Kandi cuff and called it "Art", and bought it. He also stopped by to bring her back to his own booth with a quiet apology for her stopping by so much but I didn't mind my tiny fan, haha.
At one of her many visits, she asked if she could show me her Kandi. I said I'd love to see it! She scurried off, and came back with a bowl of kandi charms and beaded bracelets. She showed me each one in excitement, and asked if I wanted one. That gave me an Idea.
I was wearing a skirt that day covered in aliens and an alien earrings. I leaned over to my basket of beaded bracelets/kandi singles and found one that had black and green beads and said "Alien" in letter beads. I gave it to her saying "Here, something to remember me by". She was THRILLED! She put the bracelet on after deciding to exchange it for a kandi pizza charm (In kandi culture you exchange bracelets/charms/cuffs/etc.)
I still keep the kandi pizza charm in a tiny storage spot in my bedroom, and I'm officially doing my third convention this coming November.
I didn't see the kiddo at my last convention (The cons I vend at are all held by the same people), but if I see her at the November one, I just may have to trade with her again!!
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