Random Acts of Kindness

ethnicbritney

I've done the car parking ticket one as well, when I have a couple of hours left I look around to see who is just pulling up and then go knock on the window and hand it to them. Sometimes there's a look of fear-thinking they're about to be mugged:eek: but then they're really happy to get the ticket so it all works out in the end!
I have also been on the receiving end of RAK and it really does brighten your day-so thanks to all the kind hearted souls out there who have taken pity on me:)

Claire_Bear

I remember another one that totally made my day - I work in a high street bargain shop and was having a particularly crappy and stressed out Saturday when an old man asked me where something in the shop was. I showed him where to find it and he thanked me and gave me a sweet (which I later sneakily ate in the stock room :rotfl: ). I told one of the checkout girls about it later on and she said she knows who I was talking about because he always gives a sweet to whoever serves him on the tills as well. I can just imagine the lovely man going around all the shops in town and handing out sweets to all the sales assistants who help him, I know it really put a smile on my face

macma

I believe in when you can't repay a favour pass it on .
good deeds have a habit of going full circle and the pleasure of giving far outweighs the receiving thing :T

v8monkeyboy

I do the car park ticket thing all the time, but the council are making so you have to put your registration number in first, so I imagine it'll become impossible to do this at some point in the future.

I've paid for people's extra shopping before, and I've been with my friend at a checkout when the lady in front couldn't afford all of the small amount of food shopping in her trolley. My friend told her she'd pay for the extra as someone had once done that for her when she was a skint student and she's never forgotten it.

I also help people with their baby buggies when they can't get through doors, and recently escorted a lovely old lady through Victoria underground station to the bus station as they'd changed the whole layout and you had to walk along the platform - very confusing!

I believe that a little kindness goes a long way, and as I've got a first class ticket on the bus to hell, I better put in more effort while I'm still here :rotfl:

T xx

Wee_Jo

This is such a lovely lovely thread, I hope nobody minds me joining in :j It really brightens my day when anyone does anything nice for me...twice in the last year my hubby and I have "misplaced" mobile (both work ones at that! :eek:) and we have got them back as the people who found them got in contact with us!

This morning a lady let me in front of her at the newsagents, which was really nice of her.

And what have I done? Not as much as I should, that's for sure, but in the past few weeks I have helped an older lady out of a taxi with all of her shopping and also carried another lady's luggage up the stairs in the tube station. Oh and I made a cake for someone who was leaving in work (though I love baking so that wasn't really a very big thing)

BUT....that's not nearly enough, I should be being more helpful and kind to strangers (and the people I know and love!) I am going to read the links that have been posted for other websites, though they'll probably make me cry!

Thank you for this thread, Claire Bear! :A

Jo

Joannasephina

Hello all,
I think this is a lovely thread! Nice to hear people are thinking of others. I think I did a nice one a while back and it still makes me proud of myself. I went shopping and a lady hit a car right by me when I was at the ticket machine, then she parked her car, got her ticket and just walked off. I coughed loudly but she didn't even blink, so I took photos of both cars, then left a note on the windscreen of the hit car explaining what had happened and to email me. The lady did and then she went to the police, who contacted me and I filled in a witness statement. Not sure what had happened but I was quite shocked that someone would just walk away from blatently hitting someones car. What is the world coming to.

Keep up the good work I say!

floss2

Joannasephina wrote: »

Hello all,
I think this is a lovely thread! Nice to hear people are thinking of others. I think I did a nice one a while back and it still makes me proud of myself. I went shopping and a lady hit a car right by me when I was at the ticket machine, then she parked her car, got her ticket and just walked off. I coughed loudly but she didn't even blink, so I took photos of both cars, then left a note on the windscreen of the hit car explaining what had happened and to email me. The lady did and then she went to the police, who contacted me and I filled in a witness statement. Not sure what had happened but I was quite shocked that someone would just walk away from blatently hitting someones car. What is the world coming to.

Keep up the good work I say!

I so wish someone had done that when our brand new car was hit in Tescos carpark!

I'm a great believer in Paying It Forward - often do the carpark ticket thing (but have to be careful not to get on the CCTV or spotted by an attendant as I work for the carpark owners ) and wil let people in front on the roads (unless they start pushing their way out ) and I always bake when it's birthdays in work or someone leaving or at Christmas.

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I live in a fairly largish village in north Kent and although we have a precinct its not a very big one .I have found the amount of folk who smile and say Good morning in return is lovely .as an ex-Londoner I know that it doesn't often happen there as you tend not to make eye-contact with other people.But here where I live it always brightens my day when folk say good morning ,a small thing perhaps but human contact is important .My late OH used to say that when I walked across to the shops I was the only one he knew who could take an hour to buy a loaf of bread,but people do chat to you if you smile enough and it is nice to be on nodding terms with people .Even our tesco's metro the lasses on the tills say good morning and ask how you are.So when you go out today try say Good Morning and smiling ,you may be suprised at the responce,.

Wee_Jo

JackieO wrote: »

I live in a fairly largish village in north Kent and although we have a precinct its not a very big one .I have found the amount of folk who smile and say Good morning in return is lovely .as an ex-Londoner I know that it doesn't often happen there as you tend not to make eye-contact with other people.But here where I live it always brightens my day when folk say good morning ,a small thing perhaps but human contact is important .My late OH used to say that when I walked across to the shops I was the only one he knew who could take an hour to buy a loaf of bread,but people do chat to you if you smile enough and it is nice to be on nodding terms with people .Even our tesco's metro the lasses on the tills say good morning and ask how you are.So when you go out today try say Good Morning and smiling ,you may be suprised at the responce,.

JackieO, I completely agree with you - I come from Northern Ireland and it's commonplace to smile, say hello and chat to people who you meet on the street / in the shops / on buses. I find that when I am home visiting, and then come back to London (where I now live) I carry on smiling and saying hello to strangers....the difference here is not only do people not smile or reply back to you if you say hello, they look rather panicked as if I am going to mug them!! :eek: (If you say hello to someone on the tube, you can practically see them scanning the ads on the walls for the British Transport Police telephone number!!)

On the bright side though, through sheer perseverance in the little town within London that I live, I do find that people are now smiling and talking back...probably in the hope that I leave them alone! :rotfl:

Jo

lauren_1

Pass on car park tickets if there is more than an hour
Pass on 'day tickets' for busses (they are cheaper than returns on my busses, i only need it once for that day)
I pass on tube tickets too, when i was in london we left at 4pm but they were still valid, saved someone £11 (wish we got a oyster card first tho)

I also freecycle a lot too