Acts of kindness

bobble_hat

TUS wrote: »

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

LOL I think the shame and a mahussive hangover and no memory of the night before made me merciful. I didn't want to tell her how truly terrible it had been.

Sally_A

I've missed this thread, so am bumping it up again....hope you don't mind.

Susi_Wa

I've only just seen this thread, it's lovely

So nice to read such nice stories, reassuring to hear that there are still some lovely, genuine and kind people out there.

No forgetting the support and kindness that is all over this forum!

MatyMoo

There have been many acts of kindness in this thread:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3594255

People who are not animal people may not understand, but if any of you are in the Nairn area please keep an eye out for this missing dog.

He has a Facebook flowing too:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/196610823750123/

organised_chaos

Thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread - I have been moved to tears several times and check back to read some more when I'm feeling glum.

I had an amazing act of kindness happen to me recently that I blogged about here, with a link to this amazing forum at the bottom, and it's only just occurred to me to actually post it in here to keep this wonderful thread going

JustinCredibleGillespie

Whoa!

Its been an absolute pleasure to read these stories. Very moving. Very inspiring.

Thank you

JCG

xx

Buffythedebtslayer

That last one made me cry. Please keep the thread going people, it means ever such a lot to read about people being kind

Thank you xxx

moneybuster

Coming out of Church for a smoke, after setting up the Christmas fair, a chap in the graveyard asked if there was a phone nearby, not unusual as many Young people gather there on a Friday, but this was Tuesday and youth club would be open , nothing to do and nowhere to go. i pointed him in the direction of the local pub, then he said "I've had enough" and just blurted out he had lost a baby and a close relative serving in the BF in Iraq, i asked him what he was doing about, he told me he had taken 160 paracetamol, 50 declofenic, and 60 Anadin extra, with 3 liters of white lighting, i just said are you sure you want to take your life, is there anyone who would miss you, his partner and his dad, so i just said look if you regret what you are doing in any way now then stop, because in 3 days when your dieing of liver failure it will be too late, he thought about this for a while, still holding a fist full of tables slumped on the wall, i asked him if he wanted me to ring for the ambulance and he nodded, i also asked him if he was going to comply with the ambulance staff and at the hospital as well and not cause any trouble, he nodded, I asked him to put the tablets down on the wall, i then rang the ambulance he was 29 and very thin looked like he had not had a decent meal in ages, i was so matter of fact that i think he understood i was his only chance of survival where he was nobody walks past, and if he had not requested the ambulance i would have respected that and walked away, and i think i conveyed that message, so any way ambulance came and took him away,

i did it with a little more compassion that what is written here, but that's the general gist.

sad sad world we live in.

Regards MB

cottonhead

Some great stories here. I also think it might depend on where in the country you are. My husband has noticed that the commuters in London often seem too busy to think of others. A few weeks back a young woman fell down some steps at the train station and everyone just walked round her !! My husband left his laptop on the train - the train only went 1 more stop then back to the depot so we went straight to the deopt to enquire - it had already been taken.
On the plus side when my friend and I broke down, someone stopped and towed the car back to her house to save us from calling a break down truck. Also a friend always used to get stopped at the bus station by a young man with learning disabilities who would just get into conversation. He asked what she was doing that weekend and she happended to be getting married so gave him £20 for a taxi, told him where the reception was and said he was welcome to come. He was so chuffed and looked so proud all dressed up at the wedding!

FreshPrincess

I once found a wallet at uni, it had about £30 in it. It had the lad's uni library card in it, enabling me to email him. We met up and I gave it back, he looked inside it, and didn't offer so much as a thankyou, he just mumbled and shuffled off. I was livid!!!

However, I dropped my very expensive camera in the mud at V-Festival two years ago, luckily I'd had the foresight to stick my phone number with one of those punchy label machines onto it, and a girl found it and rang me and met me an hour later! I was working on the bars at the time and I offered to give her some free drinks but she was only 17 and I think was too scared to come find me in the end. Restored my faith in youth anyway!