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A feel good one about coming across lovely people

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 20:50

I’ve just had the loveliest, most helpful young guy (employee) stop what he was doing and carry my bags from one end of King’s Cross Station to the other after I asked him whether there would be a trolley anywhere I could use.
I’m old enough to be his mum so he was doing it for no other reason than to be kind & helpful.
I was so grateful because I was really struggling but I didn’t have any cash to give him. Feel awful about that - I would really like to write to his boss and tell them what a valuable person he is to have around ..
I did get his name.

Made a note to self to make sure I always have some cash on me ..

What’s your favourite example of someone going out of their way to be nice just for no other reason than that’s the way they are?

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belephant · 27/04/2022 21:03

How lovely

I once lost my train ticket home from an unfamiliar city when I was a teenager. I couldn't afford to buy it again, so I was having a little cry.

A very kind man saw me and paid for it for me. I almost didn't want to accept as it was quite expensive, but I really needed to get home. He said he'd like to think someone would do the same for his daughter.

I think about it often

Favourodds · 27/04/2022 21:08

Not someone being helpful but just sweet - on holiday recently, a mum laughing watching her toddler dancing at the kid's disco (extremely cute carefree toddler dancing), then saw her wipe away a little tear and hug dad. She just looked so happy watching her daughter. It really got me ❤️

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 21:13

Aw those two are great examples.

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 21:16

Belephant Lydia in The Pursuit of Love meets a long term lover in that way.

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belephant · 27/04/2022 21:17

Ohhh yes that's right, I've not read it but I did watch the adaptation on BBC iPlayer a few months ago!

Incapacitated · 27/04/2022 21:18

I was sitting in a car at a service station somewhere in the Midlands crying my eyes out over a breakup. Hundreds and hundreds of miles from friends.

An Irish lady I'd never met before paused by the car. She then got into the passenger seat and delivered a most gentle yet bracing pep talk.

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 21:22

Favourodds I can picture the scene. Sounds so cute.

Incapacitated Did you take it on board? Sometimes someone being kind can make a really big difference to your day - or even your life.

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SirChenjins · 27/04/2022 21:26

I was on a cross country train many years ago with DD(7) and DS(3 months). Train was absolutely rammed and as I tried to get off I realised my buggy was under a massive pile of bags and suitcases. I was in a complete panic, trying to hold DS in his carrier whilst trying to rescue the buggy and hold onto DD in the crowd as the train was pulling into the station - and not managing very well. A lovely young man asked if he could help, and he moved the suitcases, got the buggy and got it set up on the platform before getting back on the train. I could have cried at his kindness - I hope his parents know they raised a really good one there.

Ionlydomassiveones · 27/04/2022 21:30

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user1471453601 · 27/04/2022 21:32

I could fill a book. Last year, on a small island in greece. I fell. I couldn't get up. From the young German woman who came to my aid, the two English residents who came to help, the doctor and nurse on the small island, the ambulance staff who took me to the nearest hospital, the island reps who packed my case and moved me to a accommodation nearer to the harbour, the person (unknown to me) who paid for my lunch and drinks at a local place, the tavern a owners who sent me lunch. They were all absolutely lovely. Greek, German and English.

people can and are often so very nice.

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 22:10

These are lovely stories. So much more uplifting to think of people doing stuff like this for each other.

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Maydaysoonenough · 27/04/2022 22:17

Can I sneak a dgm one in? Would have been her birthday today.. When I announced long ago my teen pregnancy my dm was enraged... I kept away from my family for a few months. I met up with dgm in our usual cafe. She handed me a huge carrier bag. Contained several hand knitted baby items. Lovingly hand washed in Lenor and wrapped in tissue paper. No judgement.. Just my loving dgm. And she loved my dd just as much without reservation.

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LovelyHelpfulStaffMember · 27/04/2022 22:20

Mayday soon enough What a lovely memory you have of your grandmother. Mine was like that too. She was in my corner more than my mother was. Did everyone come round once you’d had your daughter?

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Maydaysoonenough · 27/04/2022 22:24

Yes everyone was fine! I had dd 17 days before I was 18. No regrets. She is a beautiful, kind and successful woman now! Hasn't made me a dgm yet but maybe one day!!

tomissmymum · 27/04/2022 23:14

Had a smear done at GP surgery, had been quite distressing appointment that resorted in two nurses and GP being in the room and was in there a good half hour (long story) .

Got out in floods of tears and went to call a taxi (4 miles from home), a lady followed me out and asked if I wanted a run home . It was only after we’d left the village that I realised I had no idea who this stranger was and that I’d jumped in her car without a second thought . She was so lovely, she told me she was a mum and told me about her kids and where she lived - drove me right to door and made sure she saw me into house . She’d driven in the total opposite direction to her own home I think . Never seen her since but she couldn’t have been more lovely .

Similarly a patient’s wife when I worked in hospital as an auxiliary insisted on running me home when it was snowing, as on another occasion did someone’s son during heavy rain who insisted on buying me a McDonald’s on the way - both sanctioned by my manager at the time as wasn’t sure quite how unethical it was to accept !!

PamDenick · 27/04/2022 23:18

Lovely stories

BrylcreamBeret · 27/04/2022 23:24

I'm a mobility scooter user and I was in Cardiff City when I nipped into Taco Bell for the first time ever to try their lemonade (the buggers have stopped them now). Anyway, I needed the loo and the door opens outwardly and awkwardly into a narrow corridor so I couldn't access it. A teenage boy moved tables and chairs out of the way for me opened the door, waited until I came out and helped me get back through the door again. City kids get a very bad rep so I was chuffed to bits. Then I saw him sell weed to a shifty looking fella on a city bike 😂😂

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 27/04/2022 23:27

7 years ago was on holiday in Turkey with DH, DS and DD. DH and DD had gone off to do some shopping so it was just me and DS who was 9 at the time.

Some bloody kid pushed him face first down a small water slide and he fell chin first, came wading through the water towards me with blood pouring out of his chin, when I looked the cut was so deep you could actually see the globules of fat between the deep skin layers.

I turned green and panicked. But in the next sun lounger was another British woman who just so happened to be a nurse. She sprang into action, stopped the bleeding, sent one of her DC for the hotel doctor, one for water for me lol and held on to us until the ambulance arrived to take us for it stitching then took my husbands number and kept in contact with him to let him know what was going on.

She even came to see us to check the stitches every day until she went home. She was so lovely.

Incapacitated · 28/04/2022 11:55

"lovely" Yes,I really did.

Ijsbear · 28/04/2022 15:55

Never forgotten the lady who offered my older son and me a lift home when he went into a violent meltdown in the supermarket (now diagnosed ND). We couldnt accept, he was flailing far too much but I've never forgotten her kindness.

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