What's your luckiest brush with kindness?

AskMyChocolate

I fell asleep one time on the Euston-Holyhead train and ended up in Lime Street in Liverpool. I missed the connection at Crewe.Last train of the night. So, I'm there in the station, along with a load of hardened drugtakers, when a man comes over to me and asks me,"Are you alright?"

So, I explain to him what's happened, and he opens up a train and lets me get my head down for the evening.

His last words, "Set your clock, cos this train is going to Leicester":pac:


A total gentleman.

So AHers, anyone got any other good luck stories?

Pdfile

so, this one im i was in Austria...

Cú Giobach

I dropped £500 on a street in Cork once without realising it, until someone tapped me on the shoulder and said "excuse me you just dropped this".
It would have been a bleak Christmas without that person.

wolfpawnat

Cú Giobach wrote: »

I dropped £500 on a street in Cork once without realising it, until someone tapped me on the shoulder and said "excuse me you just dropped this".
It would have been a bleak Christmas without that person.

Was that in BT on Patrick Street, I saw someone drop a load of money there and had to run after them to give it to them!

Mine was last xmas, the snow was really bad and I had to bring my toddler to Clare. On the Luas into Stephens Green a woman got on at Cowper and even though I had huge heavy bags and buggy I made room for her to sit.

She and I got talking and she heard I was going to have to cross Dublin City in the snowy conditions with all my bags and child, she took out something from her pocket and at Charlemont and slipped it into my pocket stating she had plenty and to get a taxi to Heuston. I took it out €50!!!!! How much does that woman think Taxi's are!!!!! All because I made room for her!

Also at Croker one day going to buy a ticket for a game, a man came over and handed me one and said his friends never came and he didnt want them going to waste. It was only a league game but it was the final and he walked off before I could even give him the price of a pint!

abouttobebanned

A good few years ago myself and the other half due to go to see the little britain live show on a saturday night and fly out on holidays the next day. We had a few drinks before hand and got a taxt out to the show. Of course muggins here with the few beers in him left his wallet on the back seat of the taxi, containing most of my spending money for the holiday and the tickets for the show.

We spent about a half hour outside the O2 trying in vein to see if other taxi drivers could contact him. In the end we just had to sit outside and wait for a miracle. About 25 minutes later, before the show was about to start, the miracle came. The driver had found the wallet when he went home, got back into the car and drove back in the hope that we'd be there. We were, and extremely grateful at that. The wallet was untouched and I gave him €50 for his troubles. In hindsight I would have given him more but i was a bit frazzled by the whole thing and didn't really have time to think.

But fair play to that man.

Cú Giobach

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Was that in BT on Patrick Street, I saw someone drop a load of money there and had to run after them to give it to them!

No, it was on Patricks bridge about 15-20 years ago, it was someone collecting for something* (I can't remember what).
Well done yourself for running after that person, a credit to you.


* [If you happen to be reading this, I still mention your good deed to people as a fine example of a good person, Thanks.]

4leto

It wasn't a brush with kindness as such. I was walking on the coast road at Dollyier and there was a dingy sail boat with a crew of 5 obviously in trouble. I rang 999 but others already had, people stopped, cars stopped but not just to stare, just to see was there something they could do and feel a genuine concern. At this stage the crew was in the water and clung to each other and the capsized boat, then the Seascouts on the Bullwall seen what was going on and launched a motor dingy and got control of the situation. Then the coast guard arrived and pulled the capsized boat back to shore.

I know everyone did what they are meant to do, there was no real kind act, but I went away from the scene with a feeling of faith in humanity and thinking people are great.

jackie1974

I lost my wallet years ago, I was almost due my first child and was going shopping for baby things. I was distraught at loosing every penny I had but a few days later I got a call from my grandmother to say that a lady had found a purse and had asked the priest to announce it at mass. She had also posted a notice on the board in the church with her number.

She was so nice, she seemed as delighted to return the wallet as I was to get it back.



When I think of kindness I think of the thread on this board last year during the big freeze with people offering help in their area, thought it was the nicest thing id ever read.