What's the nicest thing you've ever done for a stranger

punisher5112 · 20-07-2020 07:20AM

Let another off three fiddy

heldel00 · 20-07-2020 07:37AM

I was in petrol station early one morning and a truck driver was in front of me with a roll, newspaper, drink, fags ... all the bits he'd need for the day. He went to pay with his card and the date had expired on it. He apologised and said he'd have to leave the stuff. I paid for it.

messrs · 20-07-2020 07:40AM

Couple of years ago I was volunteering at an event in city centre, when it was over i was heading for the luas home and met a nun who had got separated from the group she was in and was trying to get back to the hotel she was staying in - she didnt have money for a taxi and i didnt have any to give her so told her to get on luas with me to where my car was parked and id drop her to her hotel then

unhappys10 · 20-07-2020 07:57AM

Changed tyres for people stuck on the road, let people follow me to places if they were lost etc.

Probably the most memorable one for me would be this.

When I was a leaving cert, nearly 20 years ago now there was a lad in the year below me who would have been very quiet but he was a big lad, tall and broad not fat and you'd think he could look after himself but he seemed to be bullied a lot due to being so quiet maybe.

After school one evening I was walking home and was stopping at the shop on my way. I noticed a few 3rd year lads annoying your man, slagging him and blocking his way into the shop.

Now I wasn't a big hard fella or anything but I would have been fairly popular in school and well known.

As I reached the group I copped what was going on and thought they're cheeky little pricks, 3rd years slagging off someone above them.

So as I got there, didn't even really stop, just slowed down. I looked at the 3rd years and said something along the lines of "shut your mouths and get the fcuk outta here".
Probably carried more weight due to me being a leaving cert but anyway, they did what they were told.

The lad being bullied said nothing and I kept going.

A couple of days later I was walking home and the lads mother stopped me, she said her son had told her what I did and she thanked me saying how grateful she was.

Ever since whenever I'd bump into his mam she'd always say hello.

Kind of wish I had done more if he was being bullied badly or kept a closer eye on stuff like that in general but you can't be everywhere.

Tec Diver · 20-07-2020 08:19AM

I've done more volunteering during lockdown; I bought a sandwich and coffee for a homeless man.

Ger Roe · 20-07-2020 10:04AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I carry a donor card ..so some day ..if i haven't destroyed my body ...it may do some good.

I carry a donor card too, but as life goes on, various parts of me get ruled out of being potential pass on bits, due to developing their own problems

I was a long term blood donor, ever since I saw my father and neighbours bundle into a car in 1974 to donate blood on the day of the Dublin bombings. My dad continued to donate for decades after, right up until his own health problems ruled him out as a donor. I have now reached that stage too, so I would urge anyone who can, to do so.

It's easy and a nice quiet way to do good for others - people you will never meet but who will benefit greatly from your gesture of simply relaxing for a half hour every 90 days and drinking a nice cup of tea after.

SlowMotion321 · 20-07-2020 10:14AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

Let someone off 5 cent....

Give up your username!

frag420 · 20-07-2020 10:17AM

I was waling home one evening and was taking a shortcut through a dark alley.

I heard screams from around a corner further up the alley so I ran up and there was two young scumbags attacking an old lady, trying to steal her bag.

I was not sure what to do but you cant not help in a situation like this so I jumped into help.

We got about £45 between the three of us and some cigarettes!

muddle84 · 20-07-2020 10:25AM

Came on a car that had come off the road and beached out on a stonewall. It was a Sunday evening so she was heading back to work in Dublin as was i. She had been there for 20 minutes and I was the first car that stopped. She was fairly shock up. The car didn't seem to be damaged but needed a tow truck to get get it out. A friend was on the way from athlone but was still another hour away. It was really cold so I let her sit in my car to keep warm until the friend landed. I sat in the passenger seat and she sat in the back so I wasn't going to drive off or anything. Apart from that I dont know how many flat tyres I've changed on the side of the road.

messrs · 20-07-2020 10:35AM

Ger Roe wrote: »

I carry a donor card too, but as life goes on, various parts of me get ruled out of being potential pass on bits, due to developing their own problems

I was a long term blood donor, ever since I saw my father and neighbours bundle into a car in 1974 to donate blood on the day of the Dublin bombings. My dad continued to donate for decades after, right up until his own health problems ruled him out as a donor. I have now reached that stage too, so I would urge anyone who can, to do so.

It's easy and a nice quiet way to do good for others - people you will never meet but who will benefit greatly from your gesture of simply relaxing for a half hour every 90 days and drinking a nice cup of tea after.

I like the new feature IBTS have introduced now where they text you to notify you which hospital your blood as gone to. Just an added little feel good factor when you get the message

Mr. CooL ICE · 20-07-2020 10:37AM

Saw a lad getting annoyed with the condom machine in a nightclub toilet because it swallowed his coins. Gave him the condom I had in my wallet as I knew I wouldn't be needing that night anyway. He couldn't believe it.

Had been in my wallet a while as I was in a dry spell and it probably burst on him.

MaryLouMacari · 20-07-2020 11:04AM

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Saw a lad getting annoyed with the condom machine in a nightclub toilet because it swallowed his coins. Gave him the condom I had in my wallet as I knew I wouldn't be needing that night anyway. He couldn't believe it.

Had been in my wallet a while as I was in a dry spell and it probably burst on him.

Probably too small for him

i57dwun4yb1pt8 · 20-07-2020 12:44PM

^^^ someone cant read ^^

Gregor Samsa · 20-07-2020 01:46PM

Shouted and roared at an SUV with a roof box on it that was heading full tilt into a carpark with a 1.8m height barrier in France last year. They slammed on and stopped about 2cm from the barrier ripping the roof box to shreds - and one of them got out and started roaring back at me, in French I didn't understand, but it was clear they were roaring abuse at me. I silently pointed to the roof box, and she turned around and nearly fell over with shock. Evidently they had forgotten all about it. They then apologised and thanked me, and I went on my way.

Changed plenty of tyres for people over the years.

Saved a kid who fell out of his kayak in the sea in big waves beside rocks that he was being bashed against. I happened to be passing in a kayak myself, his parents were on the shore shouting helplessly. Helped him up onto rocks near them and towed his kayak to a safe landing spot.

Sent some random person on Boards a Mac OS DVD for free that they needed to get their Mac running as they'd lost their recovery disk.

SlowMotion321 · 20-07-2020 02:08PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Sent some random person on Boards a Mac OS DVD for free that they needed to get their Mac running as they'd lost their recovery disk.

Pffft! Bleedin' Mac users!:rolleyes:

JohnnyFlash · 20-07-2020 02:16PM

Banged a few absolute swamp donkeys in my time.

punisher5112 · 20-07-2020 02:17PM

SlowMotion321 wrote: »

Give up your username!

I know you are but what is eye

Seamai · 20-07-2020 02:17PM

I raced up the street to find a shop to buy a parking disc in Cork for a distressed elderly French couple who didn't know what the procedure was when it came to parking. It's a flawed system as you might find a space but if you don't have a disc, you have to go searching for one, I realised that day that not many shops sell them, in the meantime you could get a fine.
I wouldn't take the couple of euro from them, telling them it was a present.

SlowMotion321 · 20-07-2020 02:19PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I know you are but what is eye

One has both webbed feet!

banie01 · 20-07-2020 02:24PM

Donated my late wife's organs.
Have a card written anonymously from the lady who received her liver.
Thanking us for her extra time, her chance to be a grandmother and to help out her own children.

When we got that card, I hated her...
I hated that she lived and got time that my wife never had, that she'd see her grandchildren!
When my wife wouldn't even see our son's 4th birthday.

It took a long, long time for my bitterness to dissipate.
I often read that card now, with our son.
We hope she had, and still has a good life.
That her and her family shared plenty of joy.

DonalK1981 · 20-07-2020 03:53PM

Seamai wrote: »

I raced up the street to find a shop to buy a parking disc in Cork for a distressed elderly French couple who didn't know what the procedure was when it came to parking. It's a flawed system as you might find a space but if you don't have a disc, you have to go searching for one, I realised that day that not many shops sell them, in the meantime you could get a fine.
I wouldn't take the couple of euro from them, telling them it was a present.

If they had French plates on their car they were okay!

I Am Nobody · 20-07-2020 04:17PM

Changed more tires for women young and old than I can count.When I worked security for a strip club,sometimes fellas paid for private dances at a hotel.I'd accompany the dancer and wait outside the door.Most times it went off with out incident.But one time the guy went crazy and tried to rape her.He got himself educated about touching.Aside from those I shamefully can't say where I really went beyond common decency to help someone.

Reading back over that Christ I'm not a very nice person.I've had strangers do more for me than I seem to have one for others.Karma is gonna be a very cruel mistress to me!

maestroamado · 20-07-2020 04:19PM

xxx

Rodney Bathgate · 20-07-2020 04:19PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Banged a few absolute swamp donkeys in my time.

I think you meant to post this in the ‘What’s the nicest thing a stranger ever did for you...’ thread.

Seamai · 20-07-2020 05:48PM

DonalK1981 wrote: »

If they had French plates on their car they were okay!

Well féckit anyway, at least my heart was in the right place.

Badly Drunk Boy · 20-07-2020 08:50PM

Not quite a stranger, but today I was a dirty ratten snitch. A neighbour has a refuse removal truck, but there were kids (11-14-ish) but they were basically outside my house, and also climbing into his dodgy truck. They could have hurt themselves, or they could have claimed they did.

Anyway, I rang my neighbour to make sure the kids weren't causing hassle/whatever.

An Ri rua · 20-07-2020 09:11PM

I had been drowned with booze one night around Baggot St during the dotcom boom. Free gargle all night.
I had brought £100 and never got to spend it and so, after buying some grub, I still had the guts of £80 on me.
I sat down beside a poor homeless divil who was asleep sitting up on a bench. This was a bitter December night and this was a man in his 60s easy. Beard like Santa.. I gave him a woeful fright unfortunately when I nudged him to wake him up. He probably thought he was going to get a beating. But when I spoke calmly to him and put a fifty pound note in his hand, you'd want to see his eyes light up. It was worth five times that.

Doing a good deed is a serious high. For me anyway. You've got to take all the opportunities you can. To balance the books and erase sins of commission or omission.

corner of hells · 20-07-2020 09:27PM

I did an I.D. parade/line up for the Gardai one Saturday morning after a night on the batter.
There I was , hungover and sweating like I escaped from the 'Joy .
In fact my hangover was that bad ,being arrested seemed like a good option.
Local Gardai even dropped me home , though I had a lot of explaining to do for the OH as to why Gardai brought me home.

My good deed ,helping the bloke who got a few slaps when being mugged and the Gardai.

cj maxx · 20-07-2020 10:20PM

Seen a woman lose her handbag , complete with purse, and managed to return it to her.
I also took a very very drunk young woman home and put her in bed and didn't take advantage of her.
Both women were very relieved.

branie2 · 20-07-2020 11:01PM

Showed a German tourist a translation button on a tour bus in Barcelona.

What's the nicest thing you've ever done for a stranger

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