Kindness of strangers

shellyleppard · 2025-07-11T21:03:56+00:00

I've always said to my son that if you are kind to people it will eventually come back round to you. Gave our supermarket delivery driver a can of cold drink tonight. Also gave them 17 carrier bags. They refund you 10 pence for every one you return. Just checked the receipt and they refunded me for 45!!! So £4.50 off my shopping bill!! 🙏❤️

Netaporter · 12/07/2025 06:10

I offered the Ocado man a cold drink from my delivery yesterday. He said I was the first customer who’d offered him a drink all day. It was 5pm poor chap.

Yerroblemom1923 · 12/07/2025 06:11

Absolutely it does. A while ago I was on a train and luckily found a seat and it was packed with lots of people standing. I realised I had accidently sat in a "priority seat" but thought if I saw someone who clearly needed it I'd be happy to give it up. A woman got on and asked if she could sit there because she was pregnant (not visibly so but I know how tired I was in the first couple of months) needless to say I got up and stood. Further into the journey a seat became available and the other standing people insisted I had it because I'd let pregnant lady have mine.
Yes, I know she could've been lying but I certainly wasn't going to ask her to poas!
I agree kindness does comes back to you.

hhtddbkoygv · 12/07/2025 06:12

Yerroblemom1923 · 12/07/2025 06:11

Absolutely it does. A while ago I was on a train and luckily found a seat and it was packed with lots of people standing. I realised I had accidently sat in a "priority seat" but thought if I saw someone who clearly needed it I'd be happy to give it up. A woman got on and asked if she could sit there because she was pregnant (not visibly so but I know how tired I was in the first couple of months) needless to say I got up and stood. Further into the journey a seat became available and the other standing people insisted I had it because I'd let pregnant lady have mine.
Yes, I know she could've been lying but I certainly wasn't going to ask her to poas!
I agree kindness does comes back to you.

Who could have been lying?

Nourishinghandcream · 12/07/2025 06:14

Always offer people a cold drink in this weather. Postie, delivery drivers etc. For the past few days we have had workmen digging up the road so I go out there with a tray of cold drinks every so often. They all really appreciate it.

whackamole666 · 12/07/2025 06:24

Netaporter · 12/07/2025 06:10

I offered the Ocado man a cold drink from my delivery yesterday. He said I was the first customer who’d offered him a drink all day. It was 5pm poor chap.

It's very nice of you to offer a drink, but why on earth isn't he carrying a bottle of water in the van? Particularly in hot weather.

Yerroblemom1923 · 12/07/2025 06:26

hhtddbkoygv · 12/07/2025 06:12

Who could have been lying?

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I meant pregnant lady could've been lying about being pregnant to get a seat. I'm sure she wasn't as it takes guts to ask someone to give up their seat, although she had every right to ask it was a "priority" seat and I wasn't a "priority". Sorry if I wasn't clear in my post.

SwanRonsen · 12/07/2025 06:29

whackamole666 · 12/07/2025 06:24

It's very nice of you to offer a drink, but why on earth isn't he carrying a bottle of water in the van? Particularly in hot weather.

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I'm a postie and yesterday I took 4 flasks of water with me and an extra bottle my manager gave me. I still accepted 1 bottle and 1 refill from my kindest customers as I got through the lot. The vans are like ovens with no air con and we're constantly on the move. Its massively appreciated when kind people give us drinks.

Netaporter · 12/07/2025 06:33

whackamole666 · 12/07/2025 06:24

It's very nice of you to offer a drink, but why on earth isn't he carrying a bottle of water in the van? Particularly in hot weather.

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It was 5pm. The poor chap had been out all day so I’d wager he’d been through his water quite quickly. If no one ever offers to let him refill the bottle, or get a drink where is he supposed to refill it? Yes he could stop at a shop but I doubt he’s on a massive wage to repeatedly do this and his trips/stops likely have to be accounted for on his system. I did the same for the Amazon lady on Thursday whose van had broken down trying to deliver to next door. I doubt she’d foreseen she’d be stuck in a hot van in 30degree heat in the middle of nowhere for a couple of hours with no AC and no shade and probably had not packed her 5 gallon water bottle…

Nourishinghandcream · 12/07/2025 06:38

whackamole666 · 12/07/2025 06:24

It's very nice of you to offer a drink, but why on earth isn't he carrying a bottle of water in the van? Particularly in hot weather.

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Most people who are out & about all day carry drinks but it is ice cold drinks that are appreciated. Even with a chilled glovebox, it is often not possible to keep more than one small bottle cold.

Whenever I was travelling on a hot day, I would fill my large SS flask with chilled water & ice cubes, bulky but the cubes would stay pretty much frozen throughout the day.