Acts of kindness

ifonlyitwaseasier

Martin, this is just one of the many reasons we all love and respect you, you are truly one of the best people (along with the MSE crowd )

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.

ChelseaGirl

What a lovely thread! I'd love to contribute.

Over the years I've handed in various purses and wallets at our local police station (all quite obviously intact with money inside). The police took my details, but sadly not one person ever contacted me to say thank you.

Once I went to use a cashpoint machine and found that the person who had used it before me had left a substantial amount of cash hanging out of it. Without even thinking, I handed it straight into one of the cashiers on duty at the bank. Again they took my details, and again no one contacted me to say thanks.

Fairly recently though, I was shopping in a local supermarket. As I put my items on the conveyor belt, I leaned down to put my empty basket on the floor, and discovered what looked like a man's wedding ring.

I duly handed it in a customer services and left my details as requested.

A few weeks later I recived the most lovely letter from a local gentleman who explained that it was indeed his wedding ring that I had found. He went on to say that he had been married for over 40 years and was distraught had having lost his wedding ring. He and his wife had searched everywhere for the ring. They'd emptied bins, recycling, laundry baskets, garden etc., before contacting the supermarket as a last resort.

The poor man had been suffering with gout and had started taking some medication which had caused the swelling of his fingers to subside - hence, the ring slipped off.

I was so happy to have been able to help.

Horace

I am a believer in karma - I have already told you about the kindness extended to me over the weekend but I shall tell you about something that I did for someone else (I am always doing stuff however). This incident took place in 2005, I was having a break from my office and had gone to speak to the electrician in the workshops (I wanted to ask him about PAT Testing some equipment that we had in our dept). The electrician knew that I was going to see him because I had rung him about 5 mins beforehand so I knew he was in the workshops. On arriving at the workshop he was nowhere to be seen and then I heard a noise from behind one of the benches, I went to investigate and found him lying on the floor looking grey. I checked for a pulse and couldnt find one nor could I hear any detect any signs of breathing. At this point my first aid training kicked in and I started off with some breaths and chest compressions before running to stores shouting for help (stores being across the corridor). I then went back to my patient and continued CPR until the paramedics came to take him away and I was allowed to stand down whilst they did what they had to do.

I didnt see the electrician for some months after although I had tried to find out how he was without success. When I bumped into him again, he was considerably thinner and he couldnt stop shaking my hand. I had saved his life which isnt really a small thing but I brushed it aside saying that I was only doing what I had been trained for. Yes, it makes me proud to say that I saved a life but I didnt do it for recognition, I did it because I had the training and I could at least do something, I couldnt have lived with myself if I had just left him lying there.

lavandergirl_2

One january when it was cold and getting dark at 6:00 in the evening, I saw a Big Issue seller outside a bookstore. He was sitting and trying to keep warm and sell his Big Issue magazine. He just looked so sad and I felt the sudden tug in my heart.

I went to the nearby Starbucks and bought a hot tea and a piece of cake, went outside and gave the food to him. I will never forget how his face lit up and said God bless and thank you.

After that, I try to buy some bread in shops whenever I see some homeless people.

Story 2:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeff-Big-Issue-Man-for-Bristols-Olympic-Torch-Bearer/199637166761397?sk=photos

This Big Issue Seller in Bristol brings smile to people around him. He such a comical person and always in the corner of Queen's Road in Clifton (outside Sainsburys).

And Another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14530761

immoral_angeluk

Myself, my boyfriend and my daughters (and their teddies!) took a trip to the National Space Centre on Monday. We had a fab day but realised when we got home that my youngest (4) had left her teddy called 'Hospital Bear', behind and it was a good hour and a half journey so couldn't go back to get him. Hospital bear got his name from an emergency trip to hospital my daughter had when she was about two, and after a whole day in A&E, they gave her the teddy to take home, so he's pretty special.
In the vain hope of him being found I tweeted the Space centre but didn't expect to get a response.

The day after I got this tweet..

RT @spacecentre: @immoral_angeluk Marvin found this bear lost and alone http://yfrog.com/h8on8irj is this your MIA bear?

Needless to say my daughter was made up, so much so she drew Marvin a picture..http://yfrog.com/gyfoaflmj , as did her sister! yfrog.com/h4mvllybj

The guy from the space centre was so amazingly kind, they have even sent the bear back, free of charge in the post. This is the tweet I had today

RT @spacecentre @immoral_angeluk Hospital Bear is on way home via Royal Mail. We put a little friend in there to keep Hospital Bear company!

My daughters are so excited that a little robot called Marvin rescued hospital bear, and that he's coming home via postman with a little friend in tow as a surprise.

Definitely the sweetest thing I've had in a fair while. Especially as a mother it's really touching to see such kindness for my daughters

ClootiesMum

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.

Martin - you're a star

ElaineyB_2

immoral_angeluk , your story made me well up! Glad the bear is on his way home!

Claireabell

One thing me and fella did for elderly neighbour last month- he was telling us how he couldnt manage his garden anymore, and his neice's husband usually comes to cut it, but hadn't made it in a while.

When he went out to shops, we nipped next door, cut his knee high grass, weeded garden, and trimmed hedged.

He was so shock when he got home and very thankfull.

We always trim his hedge at the front when doing our own.

Used to send daughters pants/skirts to nursery when she had outgrown them, as they were always deperate for spare clothes for those little accidents the children had.

wendall

Lovely stories and restores your faith in human nature, we seem to hear all of the bad things and not anough of the good things that people do every day especially the people on this forum who help others every day without a second thought.
About 2 years ago i was struggling with a little bit of depression due to my brother (35yrs) and my dad (59) dying of cancer within 6 months of each other, my mum had already died 8 years before that, and a friend gave me a book random acts of kindness by Danny Wallace. From that day on i have made it my mission to do a random act of kindness every day, some are small ones opening doors, letting drivers out of junctions passing on car park tickets to more bigger ones like last Oct a car came off a bridge near my house i was just nipping out to get a few bits both people were unconcious another passerby had phoned an ambulance but could not stay so i stayed with the couple who by this stage had started to come round. I talked to them and made sure they did not move until the paramedics came i am first aid trained so helped the paramedics hold the drips etc. Then the husband had an allergic reaction to an injection they gave ,so i stayed and talked to his wife and the paramedic asked if i would talk to her while they cut the roof off which i did. I handed the husbands i phone and wallet with a large amount of money to the paramedic and she said others would have kept them ( i am glad i do not know anyone close to me who would have) i stayed with her until she was took in the ambulance gave the police my details. They phoned later to say they were both going to be ok but the wife had back injuries, i never received a thanks off the couple but i had not done it for that reason and just hoped that if ever i was in that situation someone would help me.
I work in a school with teenagers and last year a colleague and i started a group called positive people for some students who were struggling with low self esteem and bereavement and minor disabilities. We gave them each week the random act of kindness diary off the website and asked them to bring it back with as many days as possible filled in with random acts of kindness, they soon filled those days up with many different acts on there from making a cup of tea for parents, tidying up at home, shopping for elderly neighbours and gardening jobs, to opening doors for others, smiling at people, talking to other students who were on their own it really has made a difference to the students and they love the fact that they are doing some kindness for others and in doing so hope to change the mindset of some that teenagers only think of themselves. It soon got round what the group was doing and now we have other students come to get a diary and they fill the diaries in too, we just need to keep it going every little helps.

Dangermac

When I was about 18, we were on our football team's supporter's bus to Berwick, when it broke down. We were about 3/4 miles from the ground (Shielfield Park, Berwick). A lovely lady stopped and gave 4 of us a lift to the ground. This was about 20 years ago, and I have never forgotten it. She didnt give her own personal safety a thought, and very kindly helped us out. We got to the game on time.

On the way back (from Berwick to Glasgow), the supporters bus organiser was sorting everybody into cars because the bus was still undrivable. Unfortunately, he forgot to organise himself and found himself stranded!!!