[shezshez]

Oh I just remembered one!

A lady was at the Cashpoint and she told me it wasn't working, but not believing her I had to try it for myself, at which point £100 in twenties came out... so I took it.

Straight to her, of course.

Not exactly an act of kindness, but a lesser person would have stolen it... I guess that would have made her happy.

[gagaslilmonsteruk]

A friend of a friend who I don't know too well and I randomly bumped into whilst doing some late night shopping, insisted on paying taxi fare back to university last week. I tried to pay her what little money I had on me (like no more than 60p!) but she insisted. It only came to £4 and she paid for 3 of us

[Mr.Zen]

I can't really think of many off the top of my head, but one which I do remember is that on NYE I went to GAME to get Fallout 3, and I didn't bring my I.D with me. When I went to pay I got questioned for my age and I didn't have any way to get the game. However, a woman next to me offered to get it for me. So I gave her the money and she got served, and gave the game to me and wished me a happy new year's

[Enigma.]

Me and the family had just got off of a long haul flight (something like 15 hours) and it was like 2 in the morning UK time in the middle of winter. The area where we were supposed to wait had no heating.

So there was 6 of us with all of our luggage waiting for a taxi freezing cold and beyond tired.

The guy who was on the top of the list (next to get a taxi) saw this and slipped the clerk a banknote in his little cubicle and convinced him to let us have the next two. The guy got the second taxi with me and my dad (the other 4 were in the first). He then proceeded to pay for the fare for both taxis to get us home and flat out refused to accept splitting the bill. He left the taxi about a mile down the road from the airport.

Never did say who he was.

We all got home with a smile though.

[That Bearded Man]

YES!!

Once left my iPhone in Clemens in Belfast and headed for the train. The man from the queue behind me left the queue to sprint after me to give it back

Once I found a student card on the ground, handed it into the union, facebook messaged the random we and said it's in the union.

Feels good to do it for someone and if they do it to you

[R4INBOW]

(Original post by AnyoneOutThere)
I can't remember many, other than people offering their bus tickets and the like, which always makes me smile. :')
I tend to try to do kind things for my friends and family, like randomly buying them cake, or flowers, just because it makes them smile. I try to help people, and do something nice where I can, like helping lost people, or making sure someone's ok if they trip in the road, giving change to homeless people, or surprising my colleagues with lunch if they're rushed off their feet. I like to think that if I ever really needed it, or felt really upset, somebody would be there to return the favour and put a smile on my face.

Btw, I love this thread, it's such a nice idea!

I have no idea as to why you were negged so much for your post tsr sometimes baffles me

[Enigma.]

And another time I was getting a taxi home after a night out. I wasn't drunk but was very tired.

I chatted the whole way home (15 miles) to this taxi driver about modern youth and uni fees and common sort of conversation starters. He was a nice enough bloke.

So I left the taxi pizza box in hand and watched him drive off. Once I got into the house I noticed my phone was gone. At 3 am I was in totally blind panic. So I rang up the taxi office and asked them if they could identify the driver and see if I could get it back tomorrow.

The bloke turned round (after having travelled back 4 miles) and came right back. He let me get my phone off of the back seat where it had fallen and said he wouldnt take any more money than Id already paid for my fare. I insisted he had something for going out of his way.


The guy left with 2 slices of pizza. Total hero

[siwelmail]

(Original post by P.Kaur)
I can't believe the kindness of a few odd people in the world... it really overwhelms me!

we live in a society where speaking to strangers means you're a pervert or want to kidnap them or whatever. It's a pathetic world but some people just want to be nice. And it's good that they do.

[coffee cup]

Did a charity hitchhike from Cirencester to Manchester, Liverpool and then Chester in the space of 36 hours. We had absolutely no money with us, and by the end of the first day we had only managed to get to Manchester. Anyway, went for a Mancunian night out, slept for a couple of hours and started hitchhiking at 7 that morning. Couldn't find anyone to take us to Liverpool or Chester, we were seriously hungover and basically morale was seriously low (despite us getting free subway/starbucks/maccy D's etc.). Then at midday this chap pulls up, and tells us he'll take us to Wigan. On the way there we got really friendly with him, he took us to Liverpool, bought us a pint there, decided to take us to Chester. In the end, he ended up taking us back to Cirencester, we took him out for the night and he drove all the way back up to Manchester the next day. An absolute LEGEND. And such a babe too. Planning to go up to Manchester one of these days to go and see him.

[drummer]

Every now and then yeah. I remember the time an old woman was waiting at the bus stop outside my house next to me and i offered her to get on the bus first. I dont think she could talk and was pretty ill but she showed her gratitude in the form of a weak smile and a wethers original. Meant a lot to be honest, after time and time of bumping into rude people in the city centre

[Nalced]

I always give my day tickets to people. Last stop for me anyway.

[Anna150]

Few occasiona i can remember:

When i was really little and got the train with my family it was really busy and there weren't many seats together so my mum sat with my brother and i had to sit behind them next to a random man (Even though i was the youngest!!). I was painfully shy anyway and upset that i had to sit on my own. The guy was really nice though, he gave me a banana and let me play on his gameboy and made my brother jealous .

A couple of years ago when i was out shopping with my mum she collapsed in the middle of the street and this man she came from nowhere to help us, which i was really gratefull for because i was freaking out.

Wasn't me personally, but in my cousins year 11 class one of the kids was chewing his penlid and got it lodged in his throat and he started choking on it. All the students and the teacher froze, but my cousin lept into action and performed the heimlich maneuver by 'copying what they did on TV'. Saved the kid's life and the kid's parents bought him some thank you gifts .

More small stuff: I used to do shift work and me and my boss were are always on different shifts, although there was often overlap. He would sometime leave random post-it notes on my desk / under my desk / on my chair. Or if i did a good job at something he'd put a smiley-face sticker on my monitor or keyboard. I think maybe he just liked wasting my post-it notes though... one day i came and there was a post-it on my phone saying "Phone." and everything else (The desk, monitor, mouse, chair, stapler etc) had post-its on them saying "this is not a phone." Used to make me laugh when i started my shift though .

[minimarshmallow]

I was in a pizza place with my friends once and we could only just about afford a pizza between us. Anyway while we were waiting another woman came in and order a load of pizzas and spent like over £20 so was offered the free garlic bread that you get for spending over £20. She said she didn't like garlic, and my friend decided to shout jokingly 'We love garlic'. The woman turned around and said well you can have it. The pizza man wasn't happy, he thought he was getting away with not giving it away, but we were very very happy. She could have just thought we were cheeky annoying teenagers, but she was dead nice about it and we all got enough food to make us nice and full.

I also try to do random acts of kindness if possible, like in ASDA once a disabled woman in one of those scooter things with the basket on was struggling to get up to unload her basket so I just started doing it for her. I mean, I was queuing anyway, so I was essentially just wasting time.

The same day as the ASDA incident actually I wanted something off the top shelf but I'm really small and I was just stood there looking up at the stuff, debating if it was worth jumping to try and get it, and a really tall person came up to me and was like do you want this? Without me even having to ask.

I've also had a bus driver let me off my fare when I lost my dayrider. I'd been to the cash machine and got a tenner out to pay for a £1.50 fare because I'd lost it and all of my friends had just got on with theirs I was like 'I'm so sorry, I've got no change, I lost my ticket' and he was just like 'Just get on, you're clearly all coming from the same college and they all have tickets, so I believe that you bought one this morning'.

[greeneyedgirl]

A man once gave me an umbrella in the pouring rain in Glasgow because he said he was nearly home and didn't want me to get drenched.

Also going on Jailbreak showed me the goodness of people. The bus drivers in Glasgow all were lovely, as were the train drivers. A ticket office guy in Edinburgh bus stop spent an hour chatting to all the bus drivers till he persuaded one of them to let us on a bus, the London Underground people not only let us have as much tube travel as we wanted and tannoyed every tube stop to let them know but they also put an announcement out telling the crowd to cheer us on. A Polish man took us across the ferry in his car and a really lovely German man took us back across the channel.

Plus last gig I was at I only had half an hour to get from Wembley to Liverpool Street to make my last train home and two random guys who'd been at the gig decided they were going to make sure I got to my train on time and promised me MacDonalds if I didn't get there on time!

My friend lost her phone one night, we assumed it had been stolen so I rang up the number and left really angry voicemails about how no-one should steal a phone, it's an abuse of life sources etc. etc. and the next day the taxi driver went to her flat with her phone which had been found in his taxi by one of his passengers and given to him.

There's a lot of good in this world

[SpringNicht]

I had a man come up to me in a shopping centre, hand me an envelope and run off before I could open it. There was £50 inside it with a note saying 'I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed handing it out' :O

I tried running after him to say thank you but I couldn't find him There were a few people in the shopping centre who got one as well.

I've still got the note somewhere

I'm another one of the people who give day tickets out once I've used them lol. I've seen a lady I kind of know leave her phone on the bus, gone and got it for her then delivered it to her house on my friends house before.

[beccah]

When I was on D of E my foot went through some rotten wood and it was badly sprained, the head boy at the time then insisted on giving me a piggy back a mile down to the road and the guys that were assessing us picked me up. I was so gutted that they drove to a village, bought me an ice cream and an ice compress and let me sit watching their dog play in a stream in the sunshine. Considering we were on the third day and morale was low, everyone was so lovely and looked after me

[Miryo]

This is whats wrong with society. It's rare that someone goes out of their way to benefit others, if everyone did this, we'd be much better.

[RedTiger]

In New York, my mum fell on the pavement and cut her knee but got up and we went in some shop. Some man runs about 100 yards after us with a wet wipe for her.

What a guy.

[Fuzzpig]

(Original post by RainPours)
That was really nice of her, most people would throw it away rather then giving it to someone who can make use of it right?

I thought so, it would be great if there were more people around like that. Although I would offer my parking ticket to someone, I'm not sure if I would with my bus ticket, too scared of getting caught! I'm sure that's why the lady was wearing the HUGE hat.


I don't even think I've done many kind things. Unless you count me running over to this guy at a festival with blood pouring down his face, offering him loads of wetwipes. Poor guy was in a right state.

[JamesNeedHelp2]

(Original post by RedTiger)
In New York, my mum fell on the pavement and cut her knee but got up and we went in some shop. Some man runs about 100 yards after us with a wet wipe for her.

What a guy.

Maybe just maybe he was attracted to her...

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