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Acts of kindess you've received from strangers?
Imogen M
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I'm really tired of all the doom and gloom so let's try and have an uplifting thread? No negativity in here, please, there are plently of other threads for that if you want.
I want you to share stories of acts of kindess you have received from strangers.
I've got a couple of nice ones:
I was walking along a street minding my own business when a lady approached me from her garden and asked if I wanted a bunch of flowers she had. Someone had given them to her but she was going away and they'd just be left to die if she kept them. I took them and she was glad she'd been able to pass them on to someone who'd appreciate it.
Another time, I was lost in Paris very, very late on a Sunday night trying to get from the Metro station to my hotel. I was exhausted and quite tearful because it had been a long and stressful weekend. I asked these young guys for directions, then decided I should get a cab. They walked me to the street and spent about five minutes trying to hail a cab for me. They didn't leave until they'd made sure I was in safe hands with the driver.
Your stories, now, please.
I want you to share stories of acts of kindess you have received from strangers.
I've got a couple of nice ones:
I was walking along a street minding my own business when a lady approached me from her garden and asked if I wanted a bunch of flowers she had. Someone had given them to her but she was going away and they'd just be left to die if she kept them. I took them and she was glad she'd been able to pass them on to someone who'd appreciate it.
Another time, I was lost in Paris very, very late on a Sunday night trying to get from the Metro station to my hotel. I was exhausted and quite tearful because it had been a long and stressful weekend. I asked these young guys for directions, then decided I should get a cab. They walked me to the street and spent about five minutes trying to hail a cab for me. They didn't leave until they'd made sure I was in safe hands with the driver.
Your stories, now, please.
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Can it be that it hasn't got to be a total stranger.
Somebody helped me a month or so ago, they supported me when I was very down and made me laugh and smile.:)
I can't go into the details but it was appreciated and will not be forgotten
So the two brothers go for a walk around the area and get lost.
Their family is wondering were they are, they have been gone for 4 hours, a search party is quickly called.
They started searching all over the area were the boys could of gone, then a man spotted a hand sticking out of some marshy swamp area.
They quickly rush in and the man manages to pull out the boy ( the 7 year old one), but his unconscious.
They do their best to revive him and luckily he gains conciousness.
'Where is your brother they ask?'
'I was standing on his shoulders, he told me to'
how about that for an act of kindness?
Sure, why not!
You bad Humph
But a nice ending
I posted anyway but thank you
Long since deleted, but the lead singer Simon Rivers personally went up in his loft, got spare copies of all their old vinyl albums and EP's and posted them to me for nowt. Whaddaguy!!
The first occasion i was on the bus returning no less than 8 CD's to the library, and when i got off the bus i totally forgot them, and when i realised i went back to the depot before the bus pulled out again and they had (not surprisingly) gone.
I carried on to the library and explained and offered to pay for them so much a week starting from the following week...a few days later i got a phone call from the library telling me they had all been returned.
Secondly, I left a leather card holder on top of a public telephone which had two bank cards/ library cards and other important cards... i was in a dilema with cancelling everything and awaiting for new bank cards etc...then a week later it had arrived through the post!
No idea where they got my address from (apart from maybe someone handing it into a bank where the card would have my info on)
Almost forgotten the last really good samaritan which was an RAC mechanic. (back in 2004)
I brought this car off EBAY from a seller in Darlington (North Yorkshire) which was around 150 miles from where i am and as i drove it back the temperature gauge went into the red - the car head gaskett had blown and i was miles from anywhere with about £10 on me, i had no other means of transport or no idea where i was and it was a blistering hot day and i was stuck in the middle of nowhere with a car that i was conned out of buying. The RAC mechanic offered to take me to the nearest railway station which was around 20+ miles away....what great service of which I didn't pay for as i only had road side assistance cover.
There are a few decent people still around.
A similar thing happened to me with my library books, I left my bags on the tube and a very lovely old lady phoned me and arranged to meet and return my things, she also took my books (in a seperate plastic bag) back to the library as they were due in that day and that is where I was actually on the tube for...
Somebody proposed to my sister on the street :eek:that was weird but sweet
Corporate munificence, who would have thought it? That's lovely, that is.
Did you check the best before date though?
Awww, that's lovely.
It is so easily done to forget items on public transport (probably the boredom of the journey that boggles the mind and makes us forget)
Luckily now i have a car...just hope i dont ever forget where it is parked!
The letter really moved me, the chap said his ferrari would not be gained any sooner by the money sent and he couldn't bare to think of me going without. We were serving in Germany at the time and I'm almost sure that had something to do with it.
The box was huge and I never did eat them all they were lovely though
No, that is not "pathetic!" That was really sweet.
Anyway I saw him on a bus one day and he helped a mum off with her trolly. Then the bus driver just drove off, thinking he was getting off at that stop anyway.
I was sat too far back to say anything, but I saw his little face as it drove off, made me feel guilty for not making the bus stop.:o
:eek: sorry - I don't mean to impound your guilt, but why didn't you tell the driver to stop?
I was at the back of the bus and the driver just took off so quick? or it seemed like. I thought the driver knew he was only helping?
Still, he was a good teacher made us laugh every leson. or lesson? he wasn't the English teacher though.
Ah - I see - poor teacher just trying to help though
Bigfeet, we are going back over 25 years, when I was younger and shyer. If it had happended yesterday I would have ran up there and pulled the bus driver up and explained.
Saying that, today, the bus driver would just chuck me off the bus for talking while driving. Health & Safety:p
That was about 5 years ago and I can't think of anything nice that has happened since
Ah - I see spoty - I know what you mean, I was more shy when I was younger - not so anymore though
As for Health & Safety, yes - you're right there - the world's gawn mad I tell you :eek: