Following On From A Recent Thread On Goodwill Gestures...

[Mooria]

It got me thinking, and i wonder if any other ABer's have ever experianced a random act of kindness. - figured i could use some examples during one of my Boys Brigade nights. TIAx

[ummmm]

Having a mobile phone returned. My OH left it on a train and the bloke who picked it up phoned the last dialed number which was mine. He phoned me back later to say that his dad would be going through our station in a couple of days if I wanted to meet him at the station. He asked what I was wearing so he could identify me, jumped off the train, handed me the phone and jumped back on again.

[pusskin]

2 yrs ago? I accidentally left my purse on a bench in a big country park and didnt notice that i hadnt picked it up and went home.
9 am next morning, a phone caller wanted to know if i had lost a purse.
I said no , and she assured me that i had, so went downstairs to look in my bag, it wasnt there. Long story, but i met the lady in the park later that evening and she handed over my purse containing around £80. Wonderfull lady!!!!

[Barmaid]

I was once struggling to work with two extremely heavy bags of files. Unfortunately, I couldn't park close to work and it was a long walk. A kind gentleman saw my struggle and he helped me carry those bags ALL the way.

[arwyn]

I was once sat in my car in Asda car park, I'd felt so ill for days and days, but had had no option but to carry on with day to day jobs ie school run etc.. I sat there crying thinking no one would notice when a lovely lady knocked on my window to ask if I was ok.

[Mooria]

Some great stories here, see there are some nice people in the world.

[Marijn]

My neighbour hung a hanging basket full of lobelias outside my front door last week. She won them at a fete, and put them there as a surprise for me.

[bookbinder]

I can't recall an actual act of kindness, but a kind remark was made to me and my wife, once. We were at the funeral of a lady who had lived next door to us. (We had also attended her husband's funeral a few years before this.) One of the couple's sons said to us, "My parents said that you were the best neighbours that they had ever had." We were both quite touched by that remark, and we think that we are tough nuts!

[paddywak]

I had a stroke in 2000 which left me with difficulties walking and since then I've often been on the recieving end of lots of little acts of kindness from people of all ages and races,there are a lot of good people out there.

[rowanwitch]

When I got a taxi home after Redman was rushed into hospital with a pneumothorax ...it was about 2pm I was obviously tired and upset The taxi driver wouldn't take my fare... and told me to keep it for another time when I couldn't get a bus....

[coccinelle]

Twice I have left my bag hanging on my supermarket trolley; first time somebody handed it in to the reception desk the second time a lady phoned me up to say she'd found it!! I never put my bag on the trolley now as third time might not be so lucky.

[arwyn]

This ones not an act but is the best words anyone could have ever said to me.

My son who's now 23yo said "Mam we might not have had money whilst I was growing up, but I had the best childhood that anyone could have asked for and I'm a better person for it."

Still brings tears to my eyes : )

[Svejk]

After 2/3 days hitch-hiking I had a very welcome night in an old woman's house in Inverness. Dinner,bath,good nights sleep & slap-up breakfast. Feeling like a new man I turned to the old woman as I was going out the door "How much do I owe you"
"Oh" she said,taken aback "You haven't got any money, have you?"
Touched me, anyway.

[mrs_overall]

I was given an unwanted present of a belly dancing kit - CD, DVD, cymbal thingys, floaty outfit etc. It was a highly inappropriate gift as I had just had major abdominal surgery. I donated it to the Scouts Christmas raffle.
On the night of the draw my young son's raffle ticket number was called and he was invited to the table to choose a prize. There were loads of great prizes to choose from and to my horror he picked up the Belly Dancing Kit. He then went to where his friend's mum was sitting and handed it to her.
He had overheard her saying earlier that she had always wanted to learn to bellydance.
I was moved to tears by his thoughtfulness

[marval]

I lost my watch once, I had got a taxi from the hospital. The next day the taxi driver came and returned it. I will always remember that.

[Marijn]

Once when we were on holiday in Ireland we got the wrong bus by mistake (at night time) and were heading miles away from our hotel. The bus driver said he would take us back to a bus stop that we could get the correct bus from. He turned off all the lights in the bus and took us for miles back to our hotel instead. It was a lovely surprise to arrive at the door of our hotel, and he wouldn't take any money.

[arwyn]

Just a few weeks before the sudden death of my elderly step-gran, her and her elderly friend had decided to have a day out to another city by bus ride.

On the bus ride heading home they kept commenting on how long it was taking. The driver over heard them and asked where they were going. He told them they were on the wrong bus. He said that his route would eventually end in a depot in their city but there'd be no other busses to get them to their homes.

Gran always had a mobile phone on her, she didn't know how to use it. Her son had put his number in it for emergencies.

The bus driver not only rang her son, he told him when and where to meet the bus and not to worry as the old dears were having a great time. He shared his flask of tea and looked after them until her son arrived.

[mccfluff]

2 runners picked up my phone and brought it back to me. i met a lady struggling with her shopping, she lived on a boat on a the canal and had a way to go down steps and along the bank, so i helped