My faith in human kindness is restored!

Kentish_Maid_2

Thanks MM - have replied (I think - still getting used to this system )

moanymoany

The organisation who go in to care for my stepdad phoned me and said he needed a visit from the doctors as his chest sounded very bad. I hate phoning his doctors as they are AWFUL, but I finally told the person if he didn't get a visit from a doctor 'I couldn't leave it there!'

Anyhow a doctor visited him and left him with a prescription for steroids and antibiotics - he was very poorly. I didn't find out until the next day and couldn't go to get his prescription until that day after work. I phoned his local pharmacy and asked them what time they closed, and why.

'Oh, don't worry', they said 'We'll pop round, get his prescription and then take his medicine round to him.' They did too, straight away. We will be sending them a nice Christmas box.

Olliebeak

I work with elderly/vulnerable people and have found our local pharmacies to be absolutely great if you explain any problems to them. They are also brill when somebody is taking lots of different medications and will supply them in 'dosage trays' to help folks who have difficulty remembering to take things each day. Sometimes the tenant will tell me on the day that they run out of meds (instead of a week earlier) when most GP's require 48-72 hours notice for repeat scrips. Our local pharmacies will usually 'loan' essential medication to the patient as long as it's the pharmacy that they normally get them from and they know what is normally prescribed.

Just wish that some GP's and their receptionists were as helpful as the pharmacists!

17Dave

Isn't it nice to be nice.

If someone asks for 20p for the parking meter do we really want 4 X 5p in exchange?

I've even fed a meter when a TW was approaching for a car I didn't own or know!!

Smile and the whole world smiles with you.
Give someone 20p and they think it's a scam!!!

Please everyone do a good deed every day, or at least smile at someone (have you seen how miserable car drivers are!!!)

thriftlady_2

17Dave wrote: »

Give someone 20p and they think it's a scam!!!

This is so sad, I've done this before and recieved incredulous looks.

Olliebeak

17Dave wrote: »

If someone asks for 20p for the parking meter do we really want 4 X 5p in exchange?

I've even fed a meter when a TW was approaching for a car I didn't own or know!!

I have a friend whose husband was doing the '12 step programme' with Alcoholics Anonymous. One of the steps was to do an 'anonymous good deed' each day (no matter how small). But, if that good deed was discovered and you were thanked for it, you then had to go and do another one!

I thought at the time how wonderful it would be if we could all manage to do that. Your 'parking meter' deed reminded me so much of that man.

mookybargirl

I've got a great story too about a traffic warden of all people

I was going to see a match at Chelsea's football ground. Had got lost on the drive there and couldn't find anywhere to park about 10 minutes before the match was due to kick off.

I drove up a street literally across the road from the ground where I saw a TW and asked OH to ask where there is to park. He said to just leave it there and he'd write us a phony(sp) ticket and that he was the only TW that would look at the cars on the road. OH and I accepted although were a little nervous about the phony ticket.

He did exactly that - we checked the ticket after the match and there was no car details etc on it. He was such a star, as we'd have missed most of the first half if not for his kind gesture. See, TW are not all bad!

gunsandbanjos

Lucie wrote: »

There are still nice people in the world!

I did my "good deed" for the day earlier when I drove into Sainsbury's petrol station behind someone & noticed they had a brake light out, so told him. He was so grateful, said thanks about 10 times, you'd have thought I'd just given him the winning lottery numbers! Obviously not used to people being nice to him, probably thought I was some loony coming over to give him a load of verbal!

I did this too! Told a woman in Tesco that i'd driven in behind her and one of her lights was out, she was really grateful as her car was due to be MOT'd the following day and a light out would have failed it.
It is nice to be nice!!

full-time-mum

GreenNinja wrote: »

Awww, thats really lovely what a nice bloke!

I am a Sainburys shopper and am so tempted to ask people if I can have their points if they are in front of me and don't have a nectar card, but haven't yet plucked up the courage to ask! lol

Go for it. I often do. The cashier says "do you have a clubcard/nectar card/whatever" The customer says "no" and I pipe in with "but I do, would it be too cheeky..." Never known anyone to take the humph. Do it with schools vouchers too. If you don't ask.... He who dares wins!:D

I've also been known to pick up dropped receipts where people haven't collected their points.

What's the worst that can happen? If the customer is funny then they are just leaving and the cashier is unlikely to give a toss but if they are funny then you can always complain to customer services!