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What’s the nicest thing a stranger ever did for you...

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  • #32
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    I Am Nobody wrote: »
    I had a blow out on my bike in the middle of nowhere in Missouri and with no patch kit.Had about 6 vehicles pass me by and then one old man in a station wagon stopped and offered help.I didn't want to leave my bike,so he drove about 2 hours to a garage to get a patch kit and came back.Got all sorted and offered him $100 for his troubles and he refused.Only said"Happy to help"and drove off.Never will forget him.


    Motorbike?


  • #33
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    Then you woke up :D

    Yep. At home.

    In bed by 11 home by 12.


  • #34
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    In Mozambique in the late 1970s I was an auditor for a big four accountancy firm.
    We were auditing sugar refineries and sugar estates (100 square miles of sugar cane).
    My job one day was to visit a small outlying branch.
    The day started with a flight on a 7 seater aircraft a couple of hundred miles to a grass landing strip. The terminal was an unoccupied one room hut.
    The aircraft landed, dropped off a few passengers, and immediately took off.
    I had no idea where the town was, or how far.
    Seeing I was alone a man who had arrived to meet a passenger gave me a lift to my destination.
    I had no Portuguese, the sugar company employee at the branch had no English.
    The man who had picked me up stayed for hours, translating for me and for the sugar company employee.


  • #35
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    The Tetrarch wrote: »
    In Mozambique in the late 1970s I was an auditor for a big four accountancy firm.
    We were auditing sugar refineries and sugar estates (100 square miles of sugar cane).
    My job one day was to visit a small outlying branch.
    The day started with a flight on a 7 seater aircraft a couple of hundred miles to a grass landing strip. The terminal was an unoccupied one room hut.
    The aircraft landed, dropped off a few passengers, and immediately took off.
    I had no idea where the town was, or how far.
    Seeing I was alone a man who had arrived to meet a passenger gave me a lift to my destination.
    I had no Portuguese, the sugar company employee at the branch had no English.
    The man who had picked me up stayed for hours, translating for me and for the sugar company employee.

    I'm laughing at this because the companies strategy was probably to have you try to complete an audit with no language communication, if you managed to even get to the site, and Mr goody two shoes just had to step in and help out leading you to uncover the great sugar cane ponzi scandal of the 1970's which enraged several medical professionals who had invested millions in it leading them to get their revenge on the industry through convincing people it was to blame it for obesity and an increase in diabetes.

    (I may have let my imagination run away with itself)


  • #36
    I Am Nobody
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭I Am Nobody


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    Motorbike?

    Yes 86 HD Softail.


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  • #37
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    At a gig in Belfast, was wrecked from hanging out and traveling up the day before, got chatting to a girl in the front beside me and mention this, says she's off to the bathroom and could I mind her her spot, comes back with a coffee she somehow sourced somewhere. Very sound.


  • #38
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Drove me home after my grandmother's funeral.


  • #39
    bradolf pittler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭bradolf pittler


    Me and my family had to go to London on the bus/ferry for a funeral in the mid 80's.
    Dad was hanging for a pint so the minute we got off the bus in Victoria station it was straight into the nearest pub.
    He got chatting to an Irish guy from cork who was heading back home and he gave him 2 free tickets to a Queen gig that he couldn't use in Knebworth Park.It was the last time they played together as Freddie had just been diagnosed with AIDS.
    Anyway.....we went to the funeral and him and my Mam got our relatives to look after us while they lived it up at the best gig ever.Never forget the smile on their faces coming back the next day.


  • #40
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    Was in Vancouver a number of years ago with my partner of the time, we had spent a few hours wandering and exploring the city and ended up miles away from the hotel, instead of getting a taxi back I decided we would get the overhead train thingy! I was standing there for a couple of minutes looking at the board trying to figure out which train, track and direction we needed when a guy standing beside me asked if i needed help, we were obvious tourists. I said I was fine thanks and was just trying to figure out how to get to wherever the hotel was. They guy just nods and walks away.

    About a minute later he comes back and says to me "You will need to get the train going north on platform two, go for six stops and get off and your hotel should be across the road, here are your tickets, enjoy your stay in our city!"

    Crazy friendly those Canadians :D


  • #41
    Tig98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    Ploughing championship circa 2005

    On the way out I dropped my goldfish bag on the ground, it burst open and I watched in horror as he flopped around dying. Some random woman scooped him up and shoved him into the same bag as my brothers fish, which was really nice and extended that poor guy's lifespan by approximately a week.

    Good times.


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  • #42
    The Wordress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭The Wordress


    When I was in college, my group of friends headed down to a 21st party in Wexford from Dublin. We were all having a bit of fun on the bus and I wasn't paying much notice to our journey. Next thing I know, we had arrived at our destination...Waterford!

    On the bus sign, it came up as W/Ford and we obviously didn't take much notice and had all hopped on! I also remember the Wexford and Waterford bus stops being close to each other.

    Anyway, the bus driver was so sound to us that he drove us the whole way over to Wexford and we eventually had a great time at the 21st :D.

    There really are good people out there.


  • #43
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    After a night out in Galway I left my car key on top of the taxi when I got back to my friend's house and didn't realise until the taxi had gone. I walked a couple of km back towards the city centre keeping an eye out along the road but couldn't find it.

    I actually posted a thread about it on the Galway forum on here and remarkably, the guy who found it was a boardsie and I got private messages from both himself and a friend saying to give him a buzz.

    It arrived down to Kerry in the post a few days later. Replacing that thing would have cost me a couple of hundred euro at least. I flicked him on a few quid for his trouble but he didn't even want it. Legend.


  • #44
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,503 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    I once got on the wrong train and ended up in a random town down the country I went into a shop to ask if they knew of any public transport still going as I needed to get back to get the right connecting train home as it was late at night, the man told me theres no more trains, there wasn't even a train station in the town just a random drop off point. A man in the shop offered to drive me back. Ill never forget it, wish I had shown more gratitude than I did although I did say thank you. I hope he knows how much I appreciated it.


  • #45
    nsi423
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭nsi423


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Tax: because it's nice to be nice.

    Username doesn't check out


  • #46
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    nsi423 wrote: »
    Username doesn't check out

    checked out a long time ago


  • #47
    Ultima Thule
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Ultima Thule


    A bus driver in Split, Croatia once parked up a packed bus, took the coin box out and walked 50 metres down the road to show me directions to Hejduk Splits stadium. Shook my hand with a big smile and then returned to bewildered and annoyed passengers.


  • #48
    rje66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭rje66


    Early 90s was hitchhiking around New Zealand . At least on 3 occasions drivers who picked me up put me up for the night and took me out for beers . Hope it's still the same there.


  • #49
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Many years fado, fado, mid 70's it was Christmas and my Mam had gone to do the food shopping for Christmas. Children should not be left alone, but we were, they all were then.

    It was a Saturday morning, we were watching Willie Wonka and there was a knock at the door. I looked out and spotted a white van. Despite being told not to open the door, we did. The man asked for our Mam, but we said she was not in. He said he would leave us some gifts. There was lots if food, toys and two huge beautiful yellow teddy bears with blue velvet bows (two children in the house). When my Mam came back, she was upset.

    Years later I found out she had written to Father Brian Darcy in Sunday World as a last resort because we were so poor and would not get any presents or could afford food 0that Christmas and they, through the generosity of their readers donations and corporate donations had sent the gifts through their helping hand charity.

    Its probably close to 45 years ago now; but I can still see the yellow Teddy Bear with the blue velvet bow.

    Never under estimate how a kind deed impacts on someone.


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