Happy thoughts

[Marijn]

I'm feeling tired and fed up and thought it would be nice to hear of any good stories where people have been kind to you for nothing in return, cos I think realising that humans are nice would cheer me up again.
My example of a nice person is when I thought I saw smoke coming from my old car's steering column, I thought it would burst in to flames. I jumped out of the car and ran to the garage opposite, they took my car and tried to find the problem all day. He brought the car back to me late afternoon and told me everything they had been doing to find the problem, and said it would be no charge. I tried to insist on paying for their time but he refused to take any money.

[sqad617]

He's a bl00dy fool.

[Marijn]

But a nice fool.
Hasn't anyone ever been nice to you?
You must remember one occasion!?

[sqad617]

LOl LOL notafish....stupid reply of mine.

[Bbbananas]

I think he sounds very nice and he is not a fool.
There are some genuinely nice people out there who do things for others without any thought of getting back anything in return.
It is nice to hear nice stories about nice people for a change.

[Marijn]

Thank you Sallabanans, have you got any happy memories of when someone was kind to you for nothing in return?

[sqad617]

notafish....reminds me of an old bloke who didn't want NHS treatment and he came to see my privately. This was in 1974 and he always paid cash...a �5 note slipped into my hand. I saw him until 2001 and he still slipped �5 note in my hand.
I had not the heart to tell him that private consultions had gone up in 30yrs. LOL

[ummmm]

My Bf left his phone on the train. I called it and someone answered saying he'd just found it. Later on that day he phoned me back to tell me his Dad will be travelling through Northampton in a few days time if I wanted to go to the station so he could give me it.

I thought that was very nice and helpful.

[Bbbananas]

I'm sure I must have many. I do have a man who regularly services & mots my car. He does it in his own time after hours & if I wanted to take advantage of him, which I don't, he wouldn't ask me for any money. Bless him. He's done this for years & has never asked for a penny. I always buy him whiskey at xmas, & practically have to force money on him.
I can't think of any other instances at the moment - but on the whole, my experience of humanity is that the majority of people are good and well-meaning.

[Marijn]

Sqad, Ummmmm and Sallabananas they're lovely stories, just the kind of thing I needed to hear, thank you.

[puddicat]

Not that mega, though a really nice occurence when i was sitting at the bus stop and was absolutely drenched, i started talking to a lovely old lady about the weather and me not having a brolly to hand,i have to walk a bit of a distance from the bus stop, she said here take my brolly the bus stops outside my door,she wouldnt take any money for the brolly,what a kind lady!!!

[Marijn]

That's a lovely one,puddicat

[mrs_overall]

Recently I went to a hole in the wall cash machine to withdraw �100. It spat my card out and nothing else happened. I went into the shop to tell them their machine was out of order and then left. After I'd walked off from the machine it had suddenly churned out the �100. A little old lady had spotted it and she stood guard over it until I came out of the shop, much to the annoyance of the lengthy queue.

[Marijn]

Aaah, that was good of her. Thanks for that one.

[Marijn]

My ex-husband lost his wallet miles from home. The person who found it found the details of address etc and posted it back to my ex, with a note saying he'd just taken enough money out of wallet to cover postage.

[pips1]

I'd been ill and off work for a few days and back then I lived alone. One day there was a knock at the door and it was a work colleague with a tray, she said "I can't stop, have to dash but thought this would be welcome". I went in and took the cover off the tray and there was a container full of home-made soup, some gorgeous home-made granary bread (still warm) and some biscuits. It was the tastiest meal ever!

[Marijn]

Yum! Nice one

[k8bailey]

I was struggling out the supermarket in december with my 6month old baby being sick all over me and had to carry her and 4 bags of shopping to my car which was parked round the back in an unlit carpark. Two really quite scary, chavy looking girls came and asked me if I was ok and carried my bags to the car for me! I felt so bad for judging them! It made my day that they'd done something so nice, for no reason, other than my baby had smiled at them!

:-) Hope you're feeling better

[Marijn]

K8bailey. That's really nice.
I am feeling better thanks :-)

[CAJ1]

After 5 years of domestic violence I left my ex. When I thought no one in the world was there for me and I was sat in a room waiting to go into the court room to face him and was close to tears from fear, a lady came over to me and pressed something into my hand saying that out of everyone there she thought I needed it the most. I looked down and she had given me a tiny silver angel. It only took something as small as that to realise I wasn't alone and I could stand up in court and do what I had to do. I am forever grateful to that lady, little does she know how much that meant. I still have the angel...

[Marijn]

CAJ, that's a wonderful story, and beautifully wrtten, thank you