Kindnesses from strangers - share some happy stories!

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Here is mine. It happened about 6 years ago. I took dd1 (then 3) to a local gala. By the gate was a man selling helium balloons and dd1 asked if she could have one. I said I would buy her one when we left, on the way home. She waited very patiently for her balloon at the gala but was getting more and more excited about it (bless). Naively, I thought that they cost about £1 so imagine my shock when I was told they were £4.50 each!! I didn't have enough money for one - poor dd was so upset. She held it together until we had gone about 10 yards away but then burst into tears . While I was consoling her I felt a tap on my shoulder - and the balloon man silently handed me a balloon. Dd1's face (and mine) were just a picture! She was so thrilled with the balloon and it lasted about three weeks too

Six years on every time I think of that it brings a smile to my face

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My friend's child was having such a chronic tantrum in the street that she started to cry herself

the owner of the boutique she was standing outside came out and fetched her in, made her sit down, got her a drink and let them both calm down in relative privacy instead of having a public meltdown

Just a word of warning about the parking tickets though.....some wardens take note of the ticket numbers, and will check to see if its been used in another car. I have known 2 people to receive PCN's from using the remainder on someone elses tickets...

I still give mine away to people though, bonne chance etc.

Megglevache
Noticed your thread involved guys, I think this is mostly because you are a babe and most guys would think it was their birthday if they came across you as the damsel in distress.
Sorry to be facetious.

Shopping centre last Xmas, in the queue to see father xmas and DD1 bent over DD2's pushchir and puked all over .

I asked the woman behind me to get some serviettes from greggs which was right where the queue was, as I didn't want to trail sick all across the floor, and she shrugged and said she wouldn't. And the bloke in front of me ignored me.

So I went into Holland and barratt where the manger always chats to us and they took DD1 into their back room, cleaned her up and gave her some water whilst i cleaned the pushchair as much as I could, and then they gave DD2 a drink and a fruit bar whilst i wiped all of her hair.

Such nice ladies, and probably contravening all their rules about sick children in their staff room, but so kind.

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What a lovely thread! I dropped my phone under a taxi I was getting out of once, and the taxi couldn't pull away in case he ran over it. A nice man in a business suit ran over and offered to get under the taxi and get it so I wouldn't scrape my bare knees on the pavement. Thought it was charming. And a postman got out of his van to help me with my moped that I was struggling to turn around to park the other day. I was so grateful as I'm newly pregnant, so don't look it, but really can't be trying to lift my moped all the same!

My purse being found in a shopping trolley & handed in - had £300 cash in it.

My stepfathers wallet being found on a bus and handed in

Strqangers stopping to tow us out of the soft sand we were stuck in on a layby in France. Took him ages to line the car up with ours and then Dp got all flustered and hit the brakes and it was all amess! We ahd a bottle of wine on the back seat and insisted he take it.

My FIL's gardeners mkother who knitted Lottie a cardigan and left it on the doorstep when she was first born.

Sure there's loads more just can't think right now.

when I was in labour with joey, DH dropped me at the door and went off to park the car - I tried to waddle up to the maternity unit, however two ladys stopped me mid contraction, and asked if I neded any help as I was bleeding (I didn't realise it was as bad as it was) anyhow, the friend went and got me a wheelchair and they both took me up to the unit. was only once we arrived up there I realised the lady who initally stopped me was pg her self (forget how far gone now). can't be thankful enough to them. DH arrived in the unit about 5 mins later.

this has really made me smile.

i love it when people say nice things about the kids. an old lady on a bus once said to me how proud i should be of my children because they were beautiful and well behaved.i was chuffed!
while in saudi arabia, some women in a shop spent ten minutes cooing over ds1 and admiring his blonde hair and told me how lovely " she " was.I pointed out that he was a boy and they were even more admiring and pulled out sweets for him and his brother!
the old man who found my purse on the street and took it to the police station completely intact.
first i knew of it was the bank phoning to say the police had it!

have a few but the latest was last week in Edinburgh in the pouring rain, we jumped on a bus that would take us past Holyrood Palace (queue was huge so didn't bother going in) but the bus driver said that the bus we had got on was for the full tour of Edinburgh only, then he looked at the four of us, wet and bedraggled, so he told us to get on anyway and he took us there for nothing!! My saviour!!The Scottish people are so lovely!! (had a few other things like this in only a weeks stay up there!)