Is this weird? Or just someone being nice?

[staceyh90]

Hi.

Today I was in my local tesco with my 2 1/2 year old daughter, when I got chatting to an old lady who asked how old she was so I told her. Then she said she had a brand new tea set at her house and wanted to get rid of (was for her grandson last year but got him something else) so once I finished in tesco I popped over and she gave me the toy and I said thank you and is she sure and doesn't want any money for it. She said no just glad for it to be gone and glad it will get some use. So I told my OH and he said it was weird. I just think it's just someone being nice?

What do you think?

You probably gave the lady more pleasure than the gift has to your daughter.

Definitely send a card from your daughter and a photo of her enjoying the toy would be a lovely extra.

Years ago I got chatting to a lady in ToysRUs whose daughter was due to give birth very soon. I had something that would be useful for the baby so offered to send it to the daughter. I did and I hope she was pleased. It is a nice thing to do and in this throw away society good to pass things on rather than add to the land fill mountain.

I agree it was someone being nice but I bet my DH would think the same as your OH...can't put my finger on why but he just would miserable sod

I suppose some will find it weird as genuinely nice behaviour can be so rare.

I'd say it was someone being nice also

Just nice. A granny whose grandkids had all outgrown Schleich dinosaurs gave a whole set to my toddler in the supermarket once - younger sister is still playing with them some years later and I think of the lady with fondness.

My dd said something similar about an act of kindness once. I had to point out weird is something like running down the high street naked with nothing on but leg-warmers, maybe we have an unusually high weirdness threshold but I'm happy with that.

How lovely! I've come across a lot of lovely older people who are clearly brought a lot of pleasure from talking to small children and their parents. You will have made her day and I too think it would be nice for you to do something nice for her. I like the idea of a photo of your dd playing with the tea set in a card.

And I also think that the number of good people in the world by far outweighs the bad so I always find it very depressing when people look for an ulterior motive or find acts of true kindness weird or suspicious. Older people simply come from a generation who helped each other more, when communities were much closer. The pre-Thatcher, post-war era.

Just being nice.
When I was a child most of my gifts were hand me downs and donations from nice people. Equally I'm always trying to give away my daughters old toys that are cluttering the place up and which she's grown out of.

People shouldn't be so suspicious, it sounds like a perfectly nice act to me.