Acts of kindness

ShowmetheMoney

Loving the stories. I have been in a position to help out (in small ways):

1) we live in a hilly road and when is snowed last winter a few days before Christmas, I went out in the evening to clear a track in the road outside our house. As I was doing this an Iceland delivery van came into the road to make a delivery to a house round the corner. They finished and went away. I went back inside and happened to look out the window to see the van come back. I went outside and the man & his young helper (he was about 18 with no coat or gloves) told me they couldn't get out the other end of the road. I took my shovel and grit and started clearing a 100m track up a hill. They knocked on doors & eventually someone loaned them a shovel. The man and I (me being youngish female) spent nearly an hour clearing the road. Neighbours came out of their house and I thought it was to help - but no they were going to the pub and happily walked up our cleared track turning a blind eye to us! The poor iceland blokes were worried because they still had loads of deliveries to make. Eventually another neighbour came out to help but by then we had practically finished.

2) found £10 on floor in bank - handed it to staff

3) one winters morning, an elderly man fell down in street - I put my coat on him to keep him warm until ambulance arrived

4) my brother is a postman - one day he was doing his round when he heard calls for help. An elderly lady had fallen down & spent the night in her hallway (November time). He found way into her house, called ambulance and her daughter. Found her a blanket to keep her warm and stayed until help arrived. They sent him wine & choccies with a thank you letter.

VICSH

Lovely thread:
A few years ago I was in the supermarket buying some wine and pizzas for my girls night in when the lady in front with 4 kids under 6 ish card got declined, she tried various cards and managed to pay some of it on one but then started putting essentials back. I didnt even think I jsut said I would pay for it she was so grateful she cried it wasnt a lot of money about £30 from memory she asked for my address and after some time I gave it to her. She came round the following day and posted a card through the door wiht £50! I didnt do it for the money or indeed expect it back, I remember many times when I was growing up when my mum was in exactly the same situation and had to take things off the shopping to get by.
last year things were really tough and I was really struggling financially not knowing how I would feed our family. one day the door went and a tesco delivery driver and a good weeks shop arrived nappies and all. Seems my sister couldnt bear the thought of us not being able to afford the weekly shop and had paid for it for me.

Another time when I was younger my car broke down on a busy road, i was so touched by people that stopped to help and now if ever I see a broken down car I always try and help.

Other things I always offer my seat to older people/ pregnant people, hold doors open, help my elderly neighbours with shopping and generally keep an eye on my elderly neighbours. When it snowed badly last december our village was cut off, we knocked on all our neighbours doors to check if they needed anything and could we club together to help each other out these small things really do make a difference to a neighbourhood.

And definately pass the parking tickets on I alwasy do and karma is a great thing as this has helped me out so many times!

Lirin

A couple I can remember....

When I lived in London, my Iranian boss would continually bring in meals for me under the guise that I needed to try some proper Iranian food.... Was incredibly generous, as I had very little at the time.

Another time, I left my mobile in the changing room of a shop in Edinburgh and only realised when I arrived in Belfast- the shop assistant who answered when I phoned it spent her own money parcelling it up and posting it back to me- I never knew who she was, but sent a thank you card.

Now that I'm pregnant, I'm very appreciative of the doors held for me, people offering to let me go ahead of them in a queue, and a man offering to help lift the shopping to my car.... Sometimes it's the little things.

Claireabell

Lirin wrote: »

Now that I'm pregnant, I'm very appreciative of the doors held for me, people offering to let me go ahead of them in a queue,

I remember I was camping at a festival whilst 8 month preg (crazy I know!) and was in a very long queue for the loos! When nearing my turn, the lady in front let me go before her. I was soooo greatful! DD loved to dance on my bladder! She still loves to dance about at nearly 8yrs! teehee

amagem

My daughter (15) went through a spate of losing her phones, 2 in 3 weeks. Amazingly we got them both back, one delivered to us by the person to our door, luckily I had a bottle of nice wine in to give as thanks (and a bag of chocs for their accompanying child). The second we collected from a lovely onld gentleman with a big smile when I handed over another bottle of wine with my thanks!
Not everyone out there is ready to make a fast buck, some people do go out of their way to do a good turn :T

andymg

Some 8 years back we (DW and myself), were visiting Disneyland Paris. Don’t know what exactly happened but we somehow managed to lose our rucksack, rucksack contained our passports, credit, debit card, sun glasses etc. As soon as I realised that we lost the rucksack we registered the details at the Lost and found property department and then went straight to police station (as we lost our passport I wasn’t too sure how we get back to UK). Police asked us to explain the situation in French, amazingly this was explained to us in crisp English Anyway DW started to cry and the bloke called up Disneyland and asked for someone to come around for translation. After 1-2 hours some guy came around and translated the incident in French to the police and we got some written documentation on the incident.

During all this time I was very worried as our debit card/credit card etc were lost and I was worried that someone would cash in. Also I had used up all the credit on my PAYG phone. Fortunately, there was a English delegation visiting the police station (don't know why) and a Gentleman from that delegation queried us about the situation, when I explained to him the situation he straightaway gave me his phone and asked me to make the phone calls to the bank/credit card company and I did just that. That gentleman also asked me if I need any money, fortunately all the cash was with me so we were fine in that respect. In all that rush I forgot to take the guys detail but I still remember that gentleman for all his help!

PS: When we got back to UK, DW called Disneyland Paris only to be told that they found our rucksack it all contents minus for the sunglasses in it. Apparently, they found the rucksack that very same day and did not bother to call us up in the hotel we were staying, to be fair as we had given up we did not bother to call them as well. Amazingly even though we were prepared to pay for the courier service they were reluctant to parcel us our belongings, anyway after lot of discussion they agreed to post the stuff across.

MSE_Martin

Oregon wrote: »

Such a lovely thread to warm the heart.

Wish I could ccontribute but at the moment all I can think about is the (many) times all of my friends have taken advantage of me and stolen from me

Maybe one day

Hi Oregon

We can't have such sentiments in this thread. So if you PM me your name, sort code and bank account details. On behalf of MSE I'll put £100 in the account as a sort of inverse "post of the day".

That way we can prove good things sometimes happen for no reason.

Martin

PS this is genuine - I will delete your account details as soon as the money has been sent (shouldn't normally send them by PM - so delete them from your send box too for security).

PPS should just say this is a one off - sorry we can't do this for everyone. I just wanted to do something nice after being moved by this thread.

whitewing

Oregon,

Definitely do pm your details to Martin. It has made me smile so much that someone, somewhere is being very generous today.

caxia

MSE_Martin wrote: »

Hi Oregon

We can't have such sentiments in this thread. So if you PM me your name, sort code and bank account details. On behalf of MSE I'll put £100 in the account as a sort of inverse "post of the day".

That way we can prove good things sometimes happen for no reason.

Martin

PS this is genuine - I will delete your account details as soon as the money has been sent (shouldn't normally send them by PM - so delete them from your send box too for security).

PPS should just say this is a one off - sorry we can't do this for everyone. I just wanted to do something nice after being moved by this thread.

Aww that really made my day (despite the big lump in throat)!!

NeverAgain_2

caxia wrote: »

Aww that really made my day (despite the big lump in throat)!!

Kind offer from the gaffer.

And there's no need to worry too much about the bank details, all you are disclosing is what's on your cheque or debit card.

But do the deleting as Martin says, just to be on the safe side of safe.