Not a 1st time poster, but I did re-register with a new email:
Sitting in the dining car on a train. On my way back from spending the holidays with my family to my busy professional city life.
Dining car is bursting, there's a sole waiter. I'm sitting opposite a gent who I've started chatting to for a bit and who's just told me he's a Syrian refugee.
As per usual, I'm not carrying any cash at all. When time comes to pay, it turns out the stressed waiter's machine reader is broken and won't read any of the 3 cards I try. Gent opposite me hands him a tenner.
I've now offered him a new book, my phone number for recollection of the money, a CD collection I got for Christmas and pretty much every other item of any worth at all in my bag, and he's refusing to take any of them, insisting that he should show kindness as he was shown kindness by getting to be safe here.
The thing is: I'm well off, I just don't carry cash. I've told him that. He says it doesn't matter.
Moved to tears. 