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Someone was just very kind to me

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Sairelou · 09/03/2017 14:53

I'm still feeling a bit emotional about it too!

I took DCs to Morrisons cafe as we needed a couple of bits on the way home from the park and they were getting hungry. I went to pay and my contactless card wasn't working Blush I couldn't remember my PIN either and after a couple of tries I was getting really flustered and hoping the ground would swallow me up. Typically I had left my credit card at home and no cash on me. I went to get DS who was sitting down at a nearby table to leave (bracing myself for the inevitable tantrum, understandably!) and the gentleman behind me in the queue offered to pay for our lunch!

I've put something on my FB page and hoping to track him down so I can repay him and I will certainly do the same if I see anyone else in that situation (provided I can remember my sodding PIN). Smile

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Abraiid2 · 09/03/2017 16:49

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Sairelou · 09/03/2017 16:57

I love all of these stories. It's so nice to be reassured that there are kind people around Smile

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Cosybythefire · 09/03/2017 16:57

Breton another one you made tear up. So lovely of him

loveinasuitcase · 09/03/2017 17:01

So not a pay it forward type thing, but in contrast to the other thread about the ALDI checkout girl apparently giving a dirty look and that woman loosing her shit over it, well, today I was in aldi and I have been quite low recently and I felt nearly on verge on of tears today in particular. It was very busy in there and as it was my turn to checkout the lady working the checkout said to me " your makeup is stunning darling. Have you done it yourself?" I said yes, thanks. "Then she said "well you look like you've just left a fashion shoot, it's beautiful. "
I was so surprised that a total stranger would pay me such a nice compliment. It really uplifted me. It makes you think that such small acts of kindness can really pick someone up.

fairweathercyclist · 09/03/2017 17:02

That's lovely. I've often had people give me a coin for car parking when I can't get a coin to stay in the machine and get a ticket.

Or indeed give me their unexpired ticket (although a lot of greedy councils say they can't).

huge delivery of food shopping a few days before Xmas where 28 friends had clubbed together to help us out

wow

maddiemookins16mum · 09/03/2017 17:03

I had taken DD to a hospital appointment once (about 6 years ago). Long, tiring afternoon. It was dark when we came out (so must have been winter). There had been an older lady in the waiting room at the same time as us with her older daughter who had SN. We had acknowleged each other in the waiting room and DD at one point had engaged in conversation with her. We were the last two bookings to be seen, but DD and I were finished first. As we waited at the bus stop for our 45 min bus ride home, she came out to go to her car. She made a short conversation, asked where we lived and said goodbye. 5 minutes later she pulled up and offered us a lift home (she lived about 18 miles in the other direction so would have added 40 mins or so to her journey plus it was a more complicated route). I politely declined (as us Brits do!!), but she said it was fine so we hopped in. She was the sweetest lady, said she rarely chatted to anyone these days and it turned out we both knew a family in my town who I attended church with.
I've never forgotten her.

Natsku · 09/03/2017 17:13

Lovely stories - there really are so many nice good-hearted people in the world.

I've got a few, once, when I was going through a really poor time in my life, I was buying food at Lidl and thought I had enough to treat myself to a couple of beers but when I tried to pay I realised I didn't have enough so was about to say put the beers back when the person behind me in the queue handed over a note (tenner I think) which more than covered my shopping (along with the money I had already handed over) and wouldn't even take the change.

Travelling alone with 14 month old DD, at the airport queuing up at boarding and she was screaming, I was overheated in my winter coat and carrying bags and her, and starting to feel ill from it all so was crying myself, when a lovely lady took DD and held her for me while we queued.

When I was at Uni, was travelling back on the National Express very drunk from London to Canterbury but I fell asleep and didn't wake up until we reached the last stop which was Dover. I had no idea what to do, I was drunk and confused and had pretty much no money left, got off the coach about to burst into tears when two women took pity on me and took me back to their flat, fed me a cheese toasty, and gave me taxi numbers to call (and told me not to mention that I didn't have any money when I called and get my boyfriend to pay at the other end)

londonrach · 09/03/2017 17:13

💗💗💗💗💗💗

SaoirseLikeInertia · 09/03/2017 17:20

I am a snotty mess from reading this. Lovely, warm, fuzzy thread.

pinkiponk · 09/03/2017 17:22

This thread is giving me faith in humanity after a rubbish day at work!

I managed to leave my wallet on the roof of my car at a service station and drove off. I was devastated when I found out as it was a lovely wallet (Radley- that's expensive to me!), with everything in it.
I figured I'd lost it as I had cash in it as well and no one would return it.
I got back from my holiday and a kind man had posted it to me, at his own expense recorded delivery, with all cash still in it (even small change).
I contacted him and offered him the £7 postage and he wouldn't have it. He was just glad I'd got it.
Since that day I've tired my hardest to pay it forward, and leave £1 coins in trolleys for others, pay for people behind me on toll bridges, buy big issues etc!

MargaretCabbage · 09/03/2017 17:22

When DC2 was a newborn I popped into work and was there longer than expected. When we left my toddler was starving so I popped into a sandwich shop to get some lunch. It was really busy so we had to queue for ages, and when I reached into my pocket my debit card wasn't there and I didn't have my purse. I moved aside so they could carry on serving and had a look for my card but it wasn't there, so I was about to leave when the woman at the till gave me all the food and said to just take it. I was so grateful, I wasn't expecting that at all.

I went back with the money and some chocolates later on.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 09/03/2017 17:26

Fuck there's something in my eye.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 09/03/2017 17:30

Our new next-door neighbours are lovely and it turns out, so are their friends. Mr NDN had an operation a couple of months ago so he lined up a friend to help shovel the snow while he recovered. Big dump of snow, friend showed up and cleared NDN's pavements and front path with his snowblower, then proceeded to do ours.

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 09/03/2017 17:31

Aww I like these.
When I was heavily pregnant I was fringing the 400 mile journey from my terminally ill mil's house to home.
I was following the satnav on my phone and suddenly realised that the phone had taken me off the motorway at the wrong place and I was completely lost. To add to it the battery on my phone was down to 10% and I was only half way home.
I stopped at a garage and went in to see if I could buy a charger. They didn't have one to fit.
Tired, hormonal and already emotionally drained I burst into tears in the car while trying to work out where I was on a map.
There was a knock on the window and I looked up to see a a big, burly trucker who handed me a bottle of water, a bar of chocolate and his phone charger, the same type as mine.
I was so relieved I just cried harder and could hardly get the words out to thank him.
I think I scared the poor man but he will never know just how much of a difference he made that day.

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 09/03/2017 17:31

Pippilotta - your story grabbed me right in the feels.

Pinkiponk - I have a wallet story as well! Long story, but one night a woman pretending to be pregnant and begging me for a lift to the hospital stole my wallet. I had to have everything replace - driver's licence, bank cards the lot. Many months later, I received my wallet in the post. Someone had found it and posted it to the address on my driver's licence. This was my old address as I had recently moved. The new owners of my old house then tracked down my new address, and posted the wallet to me. There was even still some change left in it!

gabsdot · 09/03/2017 17:32

When we were adopting our dd, we had to have an accountant give a report on our financial status. He wouldn't accept any fee. Our doctor had to do medical school on us, he wouldn't accept any fee.

We had so many experiences like this during our adoptions. People were so generous.

InfinityPlusOne · 09/03/2017 17:42

A few years ago during very bad weather I was coming home when I went over on my ankle on some ice breaking it. I was also 5 months pregnant and immediately went a bit hysterical from the shock and fear of something having happened to the baby. A wonderful woman picked me up off the ground, put me in her car and drove me to the local Drs where my husband met me and from there took me to hospital.

She was so kind, so reassuring and went out of her way for me. I'll never ever forget it. My only regret was as shocked and upset as I was I never got here details. I've posted about it before always hoping that maybe someday she'll read it and realise what a godsend she was to me that day.

InfinityPlusOne · 09/03/2017 17:43

*her

Lostpangolin · 09/03/2017 17:44

Lovely, all of these. And this is so needed right now, with inhumanity on the upward curve

KERALA1 · 09/03/2017 17:48

When I was heavily pregnant on crutches with severe SPD in the City of London so many people were really kind. I sat on a bench crying as I could go no further and some builders stopped and gave me a lift in their van. Most people are nice. We just hear about the awful ones.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 09/03/2017 17:50

I've told this before, but its not something I'm going to forget ever!
On the weekend of ds1's fifth birthday party we had a major car malfunction.
Thankfully someone told me there was an oil slick under my car as I'm not very observant and I might have done it even more damage!
Still had a massive bill and no car for the weekend which would have meant having to cancel the party.
Dh's boss told him to use one of the company cars for as long as we needed. Party saved!
A few weeks later an anonymous envelope was handed to me after church, it simply read 'Cigars and family, for car repairs'
It covered most of the bill.
I don't know who gave us the money, but it really was appreciated, especially as it was the run up to Christmas!

Acornantics · 09/03/2017 17:52

Gorgeous thread!

Room101isWhereIUsedToLive · 09/03/2017 17:55

Earlier this week I caught a bus to a place I don't normally go and asked for a return but the driver sold me a single which I didn't realise until I went to catch the bus back. I would have has enough money for a return but didn't have enough for two singles. I was about to step off the bus and walk to a cashpoint so I could afford the fare when a lovely woman came and gave me the difference.
She was wearing a lanyard from the place where I have just started working so when she got to her stop and was passing I tried to stop her and tell her to come and find me in x department but she said not to worry. Just need to pay it forward now!

Lweji · 09/03/2017 17:57

I once asked someone at a supermarket for a pound for the trolley in exchange for one pound in smaller coins. The older man was really nice, refused to accept the small change and told me to buy something for DS.

A complete stranger offered to push my car out of traffic in Picadilly Circus when it broke down.

I've also done some nice things for others.

It all makes it a better world. :)

LeaderoftheAteam · 09/03/2017 17:57

Lovely thread. First shop with 2 week old bf baby, obviously decided she was starving and needed a feed just when I was trying to load and pay for the shopping! A brilliant lady at the next checkout loaded my full trolley and packed it away for me in my bags, so I could hold DD. That lovely lady saved me from having a mini breakdown. It was Lidl in Slough so if that lovely lady happens to read, thank you so much.