Acts of kindness

satchmo1

I went to a study group last night, and popped into Tesco express to pick up tea-bags in preparation for builders, and a chap came in asking the assistant if anyone had handed in a wallet. He was a carer for a teenager who had lost it somewhere after Tesco. It hadn't been handed in. The assistant asked if it contained bank cards, to which the carer said "no, just a fiver and some change". My change was about £6, so I followed them out and gave the lad the fiver. I just asked if they found the wallet to "pay it forward" or give a little something to charity. I'll never know the outcome, but I've been desparately short of money in the past and (due to lots of MSE ways) am comfy-ish now. A fiver might have been all his allowance.

elisebutt65

I've been thinking about this thread and I got a chance to do one yesterday. Saw an oldish bloke; grandad or older dad struggling to get a buggy up the steps of HoF yesterday so I yoiked up the front wheels for him
He didn't want to use the buggy/wheelchair lift in case it woke baby up. I remember so many times bouncing buggies up & down steps wishing someone would give me a hand. Lol

geeka

This thread is so good it needs bumping back up.

i always hold open doors, help other people whereever, ask if people look in difficulty.

the other night I was cycling home from work and noticed a white van parked up and about 5 meters along from it there was a little black book. it looked quite important so i picked it up and noticed a farmer in a field, called over to him and he had the van driver with him so i asked if he'd lost a black book and he said yes. he was an old ish guy and told me it had all his work contacts in it as he didnt like using computers, he was very grateful. gave me a nice little boost to get me home! little things make a big difference.:)

Aesop

I had 3 acts of kindness done to me:

1. My son was on a Thomas ride, and wanted another go, it wouldn't accept the 5ps so I asked a lady if she had change - 10p for the 5ps. She only had a 20p piece, refused to accept my 5ps and said my DS could have a ride for her How nice was that.

2. I was carrying a lot of shopping and pulling a trolley back from my T's. Now it is a fair walk to the bus stop and a 20 min journey on bus home.

This lovely customer had come up behind me and said do you want a hand with the trolley? I said I am walking to the bus stop and pointed in the direction. She said that is fine, she lived in the opposite direction! She pulled the trolley all the way to the bus stop, offered to carry some of my bags, offered my DS a biscuit or two.

And then I had nothing to offer her, but she was really lovely and said it was a pleasure to help.

3. I was short of 3p in the supermarket for a loaf of bread, a customer overhead me and offered me the 3p to buy the bread

So needless to say I thanked all three profusely and was overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers.

cattyboo

What a lovely thread. I have something to add too- last winter when the snow was really bad I was on the way to the local shops and an old man hobbling along asked for directions to the local hospital. I gave him the directions and asked if he was sure he was OK to get there, he insisted he was and hobbled off. Half an hour later when I was coming back home he'd only made it to the end of the road, it was freezing, he obviously had a bad leg and it would take him an age to reach the hospital so I flagged down a taxi and asked the driver if he'd get the man to hospital and offered to pay. The driver said he'd take him for free and I stood out of sight with tears in my eyes and watched him pull up and help the old man across the road and into the taxi, what a genuinely lovely man I wish I'd have got his name so I could have got a message back to his boss but didn't think to do it at the time. Hopefully karma will look after him, still makes me smile to think of how kind he was. No matter how much doom and gloom the new would have us believe there are still good things happening and good people too, I choose to focus on those.

C xx

Hightower13

Great stories ...keep them coming! Always put a smile on my face

somethingcorporate

What a brilliant thread, so glad I took the time to read it from the start.

My wife is amazing with these random acts of kindness, she is the best person I have ever met. We recently were lucky enough to go to Florida, at least 5 times a day she would take photos for couples & families that would otherwise have had one person missing from the group shot!

There is this amazing ride in Epcot called Soarin' - it is massively popular and the queues get very long. It was up to 75 minutes and all the fast passes had run out for the day. We had been on it a few days before but wanted to go on it again, it was my wife's favourite ride in all of Disney and Universal. We had got our fast passes as soon as we got into the park (about 11am) but got a time to return at ~5pm. As we went back my wife decided she would rather see the enjoyment of giving our passes to a father with a young daughter (allowing them to jump the queue) than go on herself.

She's an :A

bobble_hat

I remembered an past Act of Kindess towards me this weekend, thought I'd share.

I'd been on a night out with my office manager and she was staying at my 1st floor flat as she lived in a village a way out of town. She was very very drunk. As we pulled up outside the flat in our taxi, she threw up in it!

She then fell out of the taxi onto the floor and I could not lift her. The taxi driver was yelling at me for another £15 to clean his cab and I had no more money.

Suddenly a man appeared and calmed the taxi driver down, he lifted my friend up and his wife came over with a bowlful of soapy water and gloves and scrubbed the cab. The man then helped me get my friend upstairs into my flat!!

I was amazed that at ridiculous O,clock in the morning people would be kind enough to help out in such a self-inflicted mess. They were my guardian angels that night.

I took flowers and chocolates round the next day with a big thank you and apology for disturbing their morning!

Thank you you lovely people :T :T Let's all strive to be guardian angels whilst we're still here.

TUS

bobble_hat wrote: »

I remembered an past Act of Kindess towards me this weekend, thought I'd share.

I'd been on a night out with my office manager and she was staying at my 1st floor flat as she lived in a village a way out of town. She was very very drunk. As we pulled up outside the flat in our taxi, she threw up in it!

She then fell out of the taxi onto the floor and I could not lift her. The taxi driver was yelling at me for another £15 to clean his cab and I had no more money.

Suddenly a man appeared and calmed the taxi driver down, he lifted my friend up and his wife came over with a bowlful of soapy water and gloves and scrubbed the cab. The man then helped me get my friend upstairs into my flat!!

I was amazed that at ridiculous O,clock in the morning people would be kind enough to help out in such a self-inflicted mess. They were my guardian angels that night.

I took flowers and chocolates round the next day with a big thank you and apology for disturbing their morning!

Thank you you lovely people :T :T Let's all strive to be guardian angels whilst we're still here.

My initial thought is that the Office Manager should be thanking them a whole lot more! Lovely story though.

Kaz2904

I was on my way home from a night shift the other morning and someone broke down at the round about. About 4 cars were between me and this other lady and they just pulled around her and drove on. I couldn't leave her there so I put my hazards on and went to see if she wanted a hand. I didn't have my mobile so all I could do was push her to the wide strip at the side of the round about. It wasn't hard work really, but it's amazing that of all the works vans and everything, it was a nurse who just wanted to get into bed after a horrendous night shift was the only person who helped.
If it was you I pushed to the side of the road, I'm sorry I couldn't help more and I do hope you managed to get your car into gear and off to a garage without too long a wait.