to ask if a stranger has ever been kind to you?

[Penguinsarethebestest]

On the back of the negative thread of 'nasty to you'

Standing at the toilets at a station, bursting, no coins on me, about put a £20 note in the change machine that would had given me £19.70 all in coins. Nice random bloke pays the 30p for me to use the loo...

Student, broke, knackered, walking home up a big hill after a shift in late night takeaway 3 am, Cabbie stops, insists on giving me a free ride home the last mile and waits til I'm safely in door.

[Cadent]

@Ticktock damn someone must be chopping onions in my house 😭

[TheSecondMrsAshwell]

@cstaff

Indeed. Taxi drivers are the business.

Poor thing, he was utterly mortified about it next day.

@lilgreen

Totally agree. God knows what would have happened if that bus driver hadn't stopped. Unfortunately, Waterloo Bridge is crossed by so many routes, I couldn't email a particular garage to say thanks, I had to go to the TFL website and send comments via there. Don't know if the driver in question ever got my message. Hope so.

[Ticktocklovelyclock]

keep them coming lovely people...

[SwelteringInTheHeat]

Ticktocklovelyclock something very similar happened to my aunt.
She was on benefits, single mother and back in the day when benefits were paid cash at the PO, she withdrew the money, and left her handbag somewhere. This was early 90s, so no mobiles etc. Anyway, she retraced steps, handbag gone, no money.

That afternoon, she got a phone call from a company to say someone had contacted them and had her handbag (which had a store card or similar in I suppose?) and could she call them. Lovely person insisted on returning handbag to her once she heard the children in the background.

[RiftGibbon]

Many years ago, on a weekend trip to Blackpool to see the lights. Me and a friend got separated from our coach party and couldn't find our way back to our hotel. Stopped to ask a tram driver and he told us to hop on - wouldn't take a fare - and stopped as near to where we needed to be as his route would allow.

[JeffVaderneedsatray]

I genuinely believe that the vast majority of people are kind.
I have many examples of small acts of kindness that I have experienced.
A stranger paying my Metro fare one morning when I forgot my purse and then refusing to take the money back next time I saw him. He told me to 'pay it forward'
The lady who held my hand, got me water and got her son to amuse DS when I had a horrendous morning sickness attack (morning! Ha! All flipping day more like!) in a car park.
A young man on a train working out how he could get his suitcase off the train and help me with the pram I had my DS in.
A Key worker Dad of a child in my class bringing loo roll, calpol and flour into school at the start of Lockdown because he knew staff were finding it hard to get stuff.
People passing things to me from top shelves in shops
A chap in Leeds walking me to my destination instead of showing me on the map
The two cycle marshalls at the Brighton Marathon who stayed by my side for almost the entire thing until about 4 miles from the end when I started to overtake people - I'd been last from about mile 2 and they were just so kind, making sure I had drinks, chocolate etc. I kept a steady pace and began to over take people before the end so they had to drop back for the new 'Tail end Charlies' but one came and saw me over the line (after I had wept all over a man dressed as a phone because I couldn't find the finish) and the other gave me the hugest hug when she saw me walking back to my hotel with my medal. The people of Brighton were pretty awesome too, especially one family who had a BBQ going, were all quite merry and were playing music. I passed the house twice, danced past them the first time and then, as I came past the second time they cheered me so loudly and offered me gin!

I try to be the kind stranger for someone else, even if it's just a smile.

[squirrelnutkins1]

We were doing up our house before moving in and someone started putting our bin out for us so when we moved in I found out who it was and bought him some chocolates. Minutes later my gate slammed shut and knocked the Yale off so I was locked out my garden. Embarrassed, I asked to borrow a chair so I could climb over the wall. He said absolutely not (I'm pregnant), grabbed a chair and hopped over another neighbours wall to let me back in. Nice neighbourhood 😊

[NoraEphronsneck]

I had my first DC at 16 in the days when you stayed in hospital for a few days afterwards.

Of course I didn't know what had hit me and I didn't catch up on any sleep during the day.

For the following two nights the lady in the next bed, who was on her fourth child, did the night feeds for my DC. I slept like a baby and didn't hear a thing

[Tigger001]

I was outside my local Morrisons and was chatting with my 2 year old and then after putting my hand in my bag i said " oh no, mummy hasn't got her purse we will have to go home and then come back" a complete stranger stopped me and offered to give me how ever much I needed to do my shopping.

She was lovely, I politely declined, but it was so lovely she offered.