[nixonsjellybeans]

Twice I have been sat about in a park etc when somebody has approached me and given me an untouched pizza from pizza hut
Due to the fact the staff got their order wrong and they got to keep that one for free.
What made it even better was that the pizzas we're large sizes (not sure which size exactly).

[RainPours]

(Original post by Ice Constricter)
A lot of people do this, its happened in my mums car on numerous occassions. My mum has gave other people her carpark ticket when it still had time left and she was leaving countless of times. Its more common than you think.

You have a lovely Mum, but I have seen people who much rather throw it away then let others use it.

[Ice Constricter]

(Original post by RainPours)
You have a lovely Mum, but I have seen people who much rather throw it away then let others use it.

Yeah some people just can't be bothered, but really a lot of people do it. I see many other people do it, it isn't a rare site.

[zosolobos0]

(Original post by P.Kaur)
Has anyone, perhaps a stranger, ever gone out of their way to do something nice for you? What are random acts of kindness that you still remember? Has any act, even small, surprised you and somewhat restored your faith in humanity?

Once, a friend who I hardly knew came to my house to drop off a bunch of flowers and a gift bag full of sweets, just to "cheer me up" because I "might be stressed" from exam revision.

Also, my martial arts teacher found out about some family problems I'm having. Although they've been going on for a year and neither friends, nor family members have wasted a breath to show concern, he and his family have been so supportive- phoning me every day, calling me their daughter and insisting that I should come over and talk if I ever feel down. :')

(Oh and, I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but walking down the street I expect nasty stares and negative reactions to me. The other day, an old man happily smiled "HI!" as I walked past him I was smiling down the whole road.)

I can't believe the kindness of a few odd people in the world... it really overwhelms me!

This guy I buy groceries from always gives me extra stuff. For example I might just need a few of certain kinds of fruits but he will always put extra stuff. This other time in a food place, for some reason the owner told me that I don't need to pay.

[NapoleonDynamite]

When I was about 6 or 7 me and my Dad went to watch a race at some track I can't remember. We were stood in the freezing cold and it was pouring down with torrential rain, absolutely miserable day - I was starving and my Dad had nothing to give me, and some random man came up to us and gave me his lunchbox, I don't think my Dad knew who he was either. Was really cool.

[Katattack]

I got run over by some massive guy on a bike whilst using a pedestrian crossing (proper lycra-clad, helmet and sunnies wearing biker going really fast). He hit me on one side, I went over, and while I was going down my head hit a concrete post or something on the side of the road and I bounced back the other way and just ended up sprawled in the muddy gutter in the rain. He swore at me a lot and then cycled off. I don't remember it 100% thanks to the concussion but just got up and kind of stood stunned and crying in the road and some random lady rushed over and got me out of the road, then some other passing lady who was a nurse led me into a Boots, and the staff there took me behind the counter and opened some of their tissues, antiseptic etc to wipe the blood and muck off my arms and face and then one of the Boots employees walked me to a cashpoint so I could get some money for a taxi to hospital (I was hysterical and confused and wouldn't let them call me an ambulance). I thought that was pretty damn good.

On the flip side, once when I was a kid on a day out shopping I was walking down a road with terraced houses either side in Winchester when an old lady lurking by her front door said something like 'Oh! A young person!' and got me (and my Mum, not sure I would have gone in a strangers house without a parent) to come inside her living room and hang her net curtains up for her, she'd had them washed and couldn't get them up again. I just remember taking my shoes off and balancing on her sofa getting these curtains up, then then she gave me a mint humbug afterwards lol.

[buchanan700]

I try and disperse as many acts as I can, because I can't help it (get it from my mum). I always end up having a dayrider bus ticket and don't need it any more, in the afternoon, so I give to a randomer.

I do remember one time it was pouring with rain and I didn't have a hood/ umbrella, must have looked like a drowned rat! Anyway, this businessman gave me his umberella! He said he was almost home and he had another one there, whereas I had ages to go.

[Mazzini]

I can't remember any being done to me

But once I found a girl in the year below's bus pass which she'd dropped and managed to get it back to her

[Doskey]

I was going to buy a weekly bus ticket in the afternoon and the driver told me to save my money for another day and he let me get on for free

I was in an arcade killing some time and you won all these pointless little tokens that I wouldn't use so I gave them to a little girl who bought a plastic pony.

[pol pot noodles]

When I was seven or eight I was at Universal Studios theme park in Florida with my family when some dude just randomly gave me a giant Kenny (from South Park) doll he had just won from one of those game stalls.

[Writer_Kitty]

This is a bit silly but nevermind.

Every weekend I hang out with my best friend and he always surprises me, as he is such a charitable chap. Whenever he sees a homeless person he digs into his pockets/bag to see what he can give them. Last time he gave an old woman his bottle of water because homeless people don't often have access to fresh water. Another time we had just been to Subway and he gave his sandwich to a homeless guy because he and his puppydog looked hungry and sad. He said he was hungry but the homeless guy would have been hungrier. (I let my friend have half of my Subway sandwich though!)

Makes me smile just thinking about how kind he is.

[Lomo_gurl]

there's a construction site around Cambridge city atm and I was wearing some really uncomfortable shoes, and it made it almost impossible to walk in all the little stones and mud and this man was walking on the only bit that was nice and he got off despite wearing some nice looking shoes and signalled to me to get on the nice side and smiled..

[Sir Fox]

When I was three or four years old and couldn't swim, I jumped into my grandfather's pool, just out of fun. I was floating in the depths for some seconds, then my father recognised I wasn't by his side any more and jumped in to get me out.

I think that was pretty kind of him

[Emmie3303]

This thread is brilliant!

Once we were driving from Cumbria to Cornwall with our caravan. We normally split the journey up and do Cumbria to Slimbridge (just past Bristol) then Slimbridge to Perranporth the next day. We were about 30 miles from Bristol on the motorway when our car started spewing smoke out of the bonnet so we had to stop. We called Green Flag and they sent us a man called George with a tow truck. I'll always remember him because when we told him we were going to Slimbridge he told us that we'd have no chance finding a garage to fix our car the next day (Sunday) in that area and we'd be stuck until we could get somebody to come to us and fix the car. He put our car on the back of his truck and attached the caravan then announced that he was going to tow us all the way to Cornwall (about 5-6 hours) when he could have just dropped us off in Slimbridge. To top it off he'd already towed somebody from Bristol to London and driven back again that day. When we got to the caravan site we fed him sausage sandwiches and tea and he refused the tip we offered him for going so far out of his way for us.

When our school took us to France in Year 9 we stayed on the 7th floor of a hotel in Paris. There was only one tiny lift so we had to carry our suitcases upstairs. One man noticed that me and a couple of my friends were really struggling so he carried our suitcases up the last few flights of stairs one by one.

A few of my friends and I went to a local festival. The bus service that we took from the train station to the event was supposed to drop us at the entrance but we were dropped in the wrong place. We had to walk about 2 miles uphill with all of our camping equipment/food etc. We were half way up one of the roads when a local man driving up the road saw us all struggling up the hill and offered to put all our stuff in his boot and let us pile in the car. He was going to take us right to the entrance but in the end he let us out about 1/2 a mile later as he hit the queue of cars going into the car park. He was a really nice man.

Once when I was about 8 I fell off some monkey bars and winded myself badly. I started crying and a nice lady sat with me and comforted me until my parents saw that I was hurt and came over to me.

Sometimes I just love people!

[hamijack]

While I was hitch-hiking two guys who gave my friend and I a lift drove us from Germany to a Linz in Austria, then bought us dinner and payed for a room in their hotel for us. The next day they drove us from Linz all the way to Ljubljana in Slovenia and bought us lunch and coffee en route. Truly two of the most generous men I have ever met

[apackofcards]

A guy I didn't know at school held a door open for me at the top of the stairs when I was just starting to climb them. Made my day.

[Welsh_insomniac]

(Original post by shezshez)
That's what life is about. I'm sure a film was based on this concept....

but yeah, it's awesome, how something can be so trivial to yourself could make someone's day.

The film is called 'Pay it Forward' which is also a movement founded in the U.S. It's quite interesting and I wish it had spread further than it most likely did.

[shezshez]

(Original post by Welsh_insomniac)
The film is called 'Pay it Forward' which is also a movement founded in the U.S. It's quite interesting and I wish it had spread further than it most likely did.

That's right! Class film. Yeah I imagine it kinda fizzled out pretty quickly in the real world, nice concept though.

[Incarnadine91]

Really like this thread! It reminds me of the Tvtropes 'crowning moment of heartwarming' troper tales page, which unfortunately is gone now.

I do have a couple of stories. Once, when I was about 8, I went into a local shop to buy a pack of pokemon cards that I'd been saving up my pocket money for - but when I went to pay for them, the guy at the till noticed that one coin was actually a Geurnsey 20p, which isn't legal tender (it was left over from a holiday I'd been on and hadn't noticed it in my change). When he saw how crestfallen I was, he winked and said "I didn't see that," which made a little girl very happy.

Secondly and more recently, my first year uni exams last year happened to fall outside the official end of term, meaning that by my last one all my friends had left and I was on my own in college. I went to my pidgeon hole before the exam, kinda depressed that there was no-one to wish me good luck - and found that somebody had left me a box suffed with all sorts of old fashioned sweets, as much as it could hold. It had a note on it saying "A little helper for you on your way to the end of exam, or if you have already finished by the time you find this, a little helper to celebrate!" I was so touched. The note was unsigned, but I'm pretty sure I know who it was because I know the handwriting and his post-its are rather unique He still denies it was him to this day though.

My friends at uni are just generally awesome. For my birthday this year they got me a cake and a load of presents and decked out our accomodation, plus they made a collage of loads of pictures of us all together, labelled with all our names and nicknames. That sort of kindness really got to me, considering that for my 16th, nobody turned up... How times change

[WildBerrySpirit]

As others have previously mentioned, I've also had strangers give me their day tickets for the bus.
There was also a bus driver who always refused to take money off me, and let me on for free. I still don't know why.

I accidently tripped and fell, whilst climbing some stairs, and this lovely chap helped me up and asked if I was alright.

This might sound a little silly, but it brightens up my day when people pass who pass you by, either make conversation with you or smile. I think I give off some sort of an unapproachable vibe, so this normally brings an air of positivity.

I generally try to be as helpful as I can, when such a situation arises.
I'm normally terrible at giving out directions, so when people ask me how to get to so and so places, I usually just take them, providing the location isn't too far. This usually occurs when I'm in or around the city centre, so everythings pretty much walking distance which is a bonus.

I also recall a time where my friends and I came across an elderly lady, who appeared to be lost and couldn't remember how to get home. We finally managed to figure out the address after numerous attempts of confused conversation with her. We took her home, and her family were extremely grateful and invited us in for tea and cake!