I was on the underground today at the terminus. Hopped on with my young dog and she started to do that 'poo pose'. I quickly picked her up and took her out on the platform.
Unfortunately was too late and she had done a poo on the train so a group of passengers called me back and I quickly apologised and cleaned it all up.
As I was walking down the platform of shame to get onto a different carriage this lovely woman had followed me (she was on the train) and called out through one of the open doors 'beautiful dog'. I responded 'yes, when she's not doing things like that' as I was still embarrassed. She said 'oh, I think some people need to get a life'.
That lady had no idea how she helped me in that moment and I was so touched she followed me to say something kind as I was still smarting from all of the murmers and comments from 'the carriage of shame'.
I really appreciated how deliberate she was to do that.