Nicest thing a random person ever did for you.

biketard · 21-04-2015 11:13AM

bernard0368 wrote: »

I recently lost my wife after she spent 5 weeks on life support.
One day after she passed I went shopping as there was nothing in the house to eat and I had been living and eating in the hospital.
I ended up just standing in the aisle of the supermarket with out a clue. When an elderly lady came over "I know that look, lets just get you the essentials" Which she proceeded to do and would not accept a penny for shopping.

I have been keeping an eye out for her to repay her but I have had no joy yet.

That's a lovely story, Bernard.

I'm sorry for your loss.

ziedth · 21-04-2015 11:13AM

I was in Vegas for my stag a few years ago. Safe as houses that place, you could walk down the strip on your own Middle.of the night and it'd be full of police/security.

Rather foolishly we assumed all of Vegas was this way and went down to downtown one night got drinking in a bar and walking up to the top of Fremont street in the very early hours singing the parting glass not realizing the street was empty.

Anyway we get to the road and a taxi slams on the breaks does a U-turn and shouts "lads hop in" and when we said we're fine he said something to the effect of it's free and really important.

Anyway we pile in and just as we shut the door and a guy who wouldn't look out of place in boyz in the Hood comes over to the window with one of butterfly knife things and shouts in something like "keep yo ass outa Vegas"

Essentially the taxi driver saw we were gonna get jumped and turned the car around to save us. I was in a hoop I didnt realize what had happened until talking about it to the lads the next day so I don't think I even properly thanked him which I still regret .

5starpool · 21-04-2015 12:00PM

I was in NYC on my J1 and working on a building site for the summer. I was in Manhattan on a job that week and decided to meet a friend after work who was going for an interview in a swanky apartment building in midtown as a lift attendant. as I was in my work clothes and quite grubby and a bit smelly I stayed outside and sat on the ground in a small alcove off the footpath to wait for him as it was raining so I needed the shelter.

As I sat there bored (no mobiles back in those days, not for me anyhow) waiting for him to come out a man passed on the footpath and looked down at me, kind of went passed but came back. He asked was I ok and offered me $20! I was a bit taken aback by this but obviously told him I was fine and just waiting for my friend and had money but I thanked him for checking.

It was very nice of him though to show a bit of concern, and nearly 20 years later I still remember it well.

Conall Cernach · 21-04-2015 12:15PM

I was walking home one night, very drunk, and a guy came out of a Chinese takeaway with his order in hand. He opened the lid, took one look and said "Ah there's mushrooms in this, do you want it?" With that he handed it to me. That man is a hero to me.

anto9 · 21-04-2015 12:29PM

https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/feel-good/stranger-surprises-nyc-subway-vendor-224358815.html?vp=1

This is a nice one .A guy on the NY subway offers a flower seller $40 for each flower ,as long as she gives them to random strangers .This reduces the flower seller to tears .( i dont think it was staged )

Mallagio · 21-04-2015 12:37PM

bernard0368 wrote: »

I recently lost my wife after she spent 5 weeks on life support.
One day after she passed I went shopping as there was nothing in the house to eat and I had been living and eating in the hospital.
I ended up just standing in the aisle of the supermarket with out a clue. When an elderly lady came over "I know that look, lets just get you the essentials" Which she proceeded to do and would not accept a penny for shopping.

I have been keeping an eye out for her to repay her but I have had no joy yet.

Wow that's brought a tear to my eye - lovely story honestly.

Joeseph Balls · 21-04-2015 12:39PM

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was walking home one night, very drunk, and a guy came out of a Chinese takeaway with his order in hand. He opened the lid, took one look and said "Ah there's mushrooms in this, do you want it?" With that he handed it to me. That man is a hero to me.

You're welcome...

everlast75 · 21-04-2015 12:46PM

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I was walking home one night, very drunk, and a guy came out of a Chinese takeaway with his order in hand. He opened the lid, took one look and said "Ah there's mushrooms in this, do you want it?" With that he handed it to me. That man is a hero to me.

Joeseph Chicken Balls wrote: »

You're welcome...

anto9 · 21-04-2015 12:49PM

>>Ah there's mushrooms in this, do you want it?" << Great pick up line lol

mickrichards · 21-04-2015 01:11PM

I came out of a pub in Batcheler's Walk in Dublin, i was very drunk and did not know how to get to the house on the North Circelor Road where i was staying, This guy stopped in his car and asked me was i okay. I told him where i wanted to go and he drove me there and would not accept any payment. This was nearly 40 years ago and i have never forgotten his kindness
to me,a complete stranger.

BeerWolf · 21-04-2015 01:14PM

Letting me into lane during heavy traffic.

super_furry · 21-04-2015 01:19PM

Donated blood. I developed a nose bleed just over a year ago that just wouldn’t stop and went on for days. Doctors couldn’t find the cause and in the end I had to have surgery to clamp an artery and had a three litre transfusion.

eviltwin · 21-04-2015 01:21PM

Its minor compared to some of the stories here but a few years ago I did my first half marathon and by mile 10 mentally and physically I was in a bad way. I was ready to quit and go home and this lovely man saw what I was going through and ran with me for over a mile, made me laugh with some funny, terrible jokes and really inspired me with his own story - he'd had two hip replacements. He got me through it and I never got to find out his name to say thank you because I know if I'd quit I would never have entered another race again, thanks to him I'm still running.

Paramite Pie · 21-04-2015 01:29PM

Not that long ago, I had flew into Dublin Airport while my Dad was having a serious surgery.

After a restless night travel, I weary and emotional me walked to a bus (that was going out the country) but the driver said that he wasn't stopping in Dublin city centre. It was about 5 maybe 6am in the morning and there wouldn't be a city bus for a while. It probably wasn't even a long wait, maybe another hour.

I said nothing about where I was going but the bus driver sensed something and told me to hop on. There was only one other set of tourists on the bus. I offered to pay and he said he couldn't charge cos there was no ticket/fare for my destination. Sure enough he drops me off at the quays, so I offer him a tip.

He wouldn't take it and I thanked him profusely. I was honestly in shock at his niceness and didn't quite know what to say. It made the rest of my journey to the hospital much easier.

captbarnacles · 21-04-2015 01:50PM

Ran out of petrol awhile ago on way home from work. I was thumbing a lift to get to the nearest petrol station and a guy in a van stopped and brought me and then insisted on bringing me back to my car (round trip would have been about 4 miles). Very very nice of him. Hope I can repay the favour to him or someone else in that situation although I do give lifts to hitchers often so maybe it was karma rewarding me.

Sherlof3 · 21-04-2015 02:02PM

Was walking home from work in the rain a few months ago and a nice man gave me his umbrella. It was only drizzling and I was about five minutes from home but he insisted I take it. Really nice! Great people out there.

ghogie91 · 21-04-2015 02:08PM

I can only remember one thing a total random, never met before person did for me ever.

In the pit at oxygen and downed way too much vodka before it was taken off me, then all I can remember stumbling out of it.

Next thing I knew a lad was picking me up off the ground saying if security saw me I would be kicked out of the festival. I was only 17 at the time aswell, he said he would hope someone done the same for his little brother if he was the same way. He then brought me to the Heineken tent, actually got me in too because they were checking for ID, bought us 3 pints each at a good 8 quid each, we stayed and watched an act while we drank. He finished his way quicker than mine, so he just said rite are ya ok? I said yeah I was grand now and he just tips off and said enjoy the next 2 days!

What a chap like I havn't forgotten that and it was 6 years ago!

cson · 21-04-2015 03:16PM

Got lost in Paris with the then GF after the Prix De L'Arc and for whatever reason no taxi's were around/would pick us up. Literally hadn't a breeze where we were. This is in the days before smartphones so no Google maps to call on only a pretty poor tourist map we took from the hotel. Feck all French between us too. Asked a couple where we were and they spent a good 15mins taking us through the exact directions we need to go. And somehow we manage to lost AGAIN. This time ask this real old French man, literally the only person knocking around, and between some pigeon French and what must have looked like a very elaborate game of charades he eventually decks that (a) we're lost and (b) miles from out destination. Probably knew well there wasn't a hope we'd find it ourselves so goes and walks us to the hotel. Conscious that we (well the GF) was a bit uneasy at the whole him leading us thing he insists on walking 20 yards ahead of us and us to just follow on. About 40mins later we arrive at the hotel, he wouldn't take money off me for a taxi back for himself either. So yeah, pretty much the exact opposite from what the general perception of Parisians is worldwide. I often think if it were me in Dublin today and someone with feck all English came looking for lets say the Croke Park hotel or somewhere like that would I do the same...

cloud493 · 21-04-2015 03:21PM

I was running for the bus last week, wearing a jacket with tiny pockets, my pack of smokes, my wallet, and my keys fell out, and someone ran after me to give them back

I was awfully grateful.

DareGod · 21-04-2015 03:28PM

I'm surprised at the amount of people getting into random vehicles that pull up beside them...

anto9 · 21-04-2015 04:02PM

Years ago arrived late at night in Berlin ,on a motorcycle i had driven over from Dublin .The Wall was there then and i had just driven through East Germany to get to the City .It was about 2 am and most places were closed .I asked this policeman for directions ,and he spent about 2 hours of his time brining me around untill he found somewhere open ,and who would take me in .

Diemos · 21-04-2015 04:39PM

I met a girl in a nightclub who took me back to her place for sex......she was lovely.

Knine · 21-04-2015 04:44PM

A FB friend who I have never met & who lives in the UK sent me €20 in the post for my little daughter who has a severe disability. He said let her buy something nice for herself.

It has been a horrible day as her little schoolmate died. His kindness has cheered me up & made my daughter smile.

todders · 21-04-2015 04:47PM

Handjob

Mallagio · 21-04-2015 05:48PM

todders wrote: »

Handjob

I'm getting the feeling you were meant to text that to someone, yes?

dark crystal · 21-04-2015 06:20PM

There was a thread here on boards once about something (can't for the life of me remember what exactly), but I mentioned that I couldn't afford to buy a bra from a department store because I was large boobed and large boobed bras cost more money than I could afford to spend, so I bought them second hand on ebay instead. Basically, I'm a poor person!

Next day I got a PM from one of the mods who had purchased a €50 voucher for a beautiful online underwear store and told me to buy myself something lovely with it. I burst into tears at how indescribably kind and thoughtful that was.

_Whimsical_ · 21-04-2015 06:33PM

I was very unwell over Christmas as was my mum. We ordered some treats from supervalu online to be delivered new years eve morning as we couldn't dream of going out. However they weren't in stock and the delivery man just had the bare essentials, milk, bread, chicken, we said grand no problem only another 2 days until the shops are open anyway. However an hour later he returned back after having gone to another branch of Supervalu way on the other side of town and bought the other things on our list himself. We gave him the money but it made such a lovely difference to our day and really warmed my heart that a stranger would be so kind and put himself out like that on new years eve.
Delivery was free too!
So thank you Galway supervalu delivery man if you're reading!

Savage Tyrant · 21-04-2015 06:47PM

crazygeryy wrote: »

I'm sorry but are you male or female?
If your female it was sexual harassment and if your male he was making you his bitch.
I have trouble believing that story. Id say there isn't a person on the planet that would let a complete stranger hug them in that circumstance.

I'm a man as it happens but it was nothing other than a kind hearted gesture from a man who could see another person struggling to deal with something and thought that rather than everyone stand around awkwardly looking he made a gesture.... And it wasn't like a full on cuddle or anything. His size probably meant that crouching down to put a hand on my shoulder wouldn't be very comfortable, so he sat down beside me and lay his arm across my two shoulders.
I appreciated the gesture so much that it still comes to mind 11 years later.... I kind of pity you in a way that you'd struggle to believe somebody could show compassion to a person they don't really know.

eternal · 21-04-2015 07:05PM

When I was on holidays I got a taxi and asked the driver to go to a nightclub. He was really friendly, said his night had been very quiet and he decided to give me a tour of the entire city. He drove all over showing me all the major spots. It was a Sunday night and it proved difficult to find an open nightclub but he went completely out of his way from one end of the city to the next, asking locals about where to go until eventually he found somewhere. He refused to take any money from me because he said he liked my company. I just thought it was very open and kind of him to go to such lengths. There's a lot of people could get tips off him on how to treat others.

Conor Bourke · 21-04-2015 08:40PM

I crashed my car in a snowy ditch n the middle of nowhere in North Cork in December 2010. I had a new colleague with me who I was training into her role, we were both extremely shaken and upset but thankfully unharmed. An older couple were the first people to arrive on the scene attempted to tow me out with their jeep but after a few minutes it became obvious that it wasn't going to work so they bundled us into the jeep with them and brought us back to their home nearby. They overheard me trying to ring my manager to tell her what had happened and her less then enthusiastic reply, followed by my tearful phone call to my parents on the opposite side of the country and were so kind and comforting to the pair of us, the wife making us tea and helping us to get warmed up again.

The husband disappeared as soon as we got in the door, all he said was "I'll make a phone call". He returned a while later to tell me that he'd enlisted the help of another local farmer with a front-loader on his tractor to lift my car safely out of the ditch and my car was now on that man's farm and at a first glance there didn't appear to be any damage. He then brought us back to the nearest town, where my colleague lived. At was about 00:30 by this time and I had no way back to where I was living (another good hour's drive in normal conditions) so my colleague (who I barely knew either) gave me a pair of pjs and let me stay in her spare room.

Lovely people who went of their way for me, especially in the treacherous conditions that night. It meant an awful lot to me and I hope if I ever met someone in similar circumstances I would do the same.

Nicest thing a random person ever did for you.

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