Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens etc

PARlance · 17-12-2015 06:56PM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

At least two of these people wanted to ride you.

And two more probably wanted to smash.....

Spotted a guy complimenting a lady on her dress today. He came back to his mates who took the piss out of him... that made my smile a little.

beks101 · 17-12-2015 07:05PM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I'm in Toronto! People are generally EXTREMELY nice and polite here. They'll compliment you just cos they feel like it.

They are ridiculously nice. About 90% of the nice things that randomers have done for me happened when I lived in Toronto. Personally escorting you around the subway station, holding doors, "go ahead...no you go ahead...no I insist!". daily compliments.

I remember once some guy handing me a paper mache flower that he'd just made as I was getting off the subway, and another time I found a random note that someone had written designed to be found by a stranger. "I hope that you believe in yourself and all that you are capable of...may goodness find you where ever you go."

Ridiculous niceness, those Canadians. It took me about a year to adjust and stop reacting like this :pac::pac:

Cupcake_Crisis · 17-12-2015 07:51PM

beks101 wrote: »

They are ridiculously nice. About 90% of the nice things that randomers have done for me happened when I lived in Toronto. Personally escorting you around the subway station, holding doors, "go ahead...no you go ahead...no I insist!". daily compliments.

I remember once some guy handing me a paper mache flower that he'd just made as I was getting off the subway, and another time I found a random note that someone had written designed to be found by a stranger. "I hope that you believe in yourself and all that you are capable of...may goodness find you where ever you go."

Ridiculous niceness, those Canadians. It took me about a year to adjust and stop reacting like this :pac::pac:

They're just a different breed of nice! The first week I moved into my new house I had a little house warming dinner. I accidentally gave my friends (also Irish ) the wrong house number and they were wandering looking for it. A woman came up to them, offers to help them find me, or let them wait in her house till they got hold of me!!

Lucyfur · 17-12-2015 09:03PM

I was chatting to a lady for ages at work yesterday. She asked me where my son goes to school, and when I said, she said she's an SNA there

She said that my son is her favourite pupil in all her years of teaching. She said he is so full of kindness

Floated home, so I did

17-12-2015 09:07PM

Oh! Last week I went to buy the Thursday doughnuts from the doughnut man and I said I must get something other than doughnuts next week and he gave me two red velvet cakes to share in the office

Fleawuss · 17-12-2015 09:12PM

A lovely thread. So simple positive and uplifting. I can't add anything and that's ok: tomorrow Iil do something random and kind for a stranger.

beks101 · 18-12-2015 08:28PM

I saw a woman stoop down beside a homeless man on Oxford street this evening. I saw her pull a box of luxury mince pies out of a bag and offer them to him as I walked passed. I've no shame in admitting it made me well up in the biggest way. Luxury mince pies. I'd say it's a while since he's seen one of them.

Fox_In_Socks · 21-12-2015 09:52PM

I pepple-dashed the toilet bowl at work today but there was no toilet brush to scrub the scour off.

I came back an hour later, and some sweet angel had cleaned the porcelain to a shiny finish.

It warmed my heart and I'm not ashamed to say that a tear or two was shed.

RayM · 21-12-2015 10:56PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

It warmed my heart and I'm not ashamed to say that a tear or two was shed.

I'm sure it brought a tear to the eye of the elusive toilet cleaner too...

Fox_In_Socks · 22-12-2015 02:35PM

RayM wrote: »

I'm sure it brought a tear to the eye of the elusive toilet cleaner too...

A lit match would have taken care of any tears or eyelashes, present

mattP · 22-12-2015 02:42PM

At work I sorta devalued a guys car:o It wasn't my fault per se but I still did it, so I thought he would get extremely irrational and angry. Instead he was extremely gracious and understanding, really made my day

22-12-2015 02:50PM

Well I guess a Boardsie a couple of weeks ago who - for no reason at all that I can discern - paid for a train and accommodation for me to go down to Other Voices in Dingle.

But that is not the story that I came here to tell. I was on a train down to Dingle for Other Voices - and a few seats over a woman was having that falling asleep - head falling over - jumping back up - before repeating the process thing.

I watched with that vicarious embarrassment fascination that overcomes one when someone has that issue. Did not even occur to me to help or intervene in any way.

But a guy a few seats behind me suddenly walked past and up to the girl in question. He stood there waiting for her head to do the popping back up thing - shoved a pillow where the head was - waited patiently for her head to slump onto it again thus lodging the pillow - and then walked back to his seat. Girl in question had a nice sleep for most of the rest of the journey with no more head and neck issues.

Unfortunately I dozed off myself so I did not see the moment where she woke up and tried to work out where the pillow thing had come from. But as good deeds go it is one of those ones that deserves the phrase "It is the little things that make the world go around".

beks101 wrote: »

So here's a shiny fluffy one filled with rainbows and unicorns and free chocolate and mince pies.

This has to be done. You can hate me for it. I do not care.

beks101 · 24-12-2015 08:13PM

Walking around a weirdly quiet central London with passersby smiling and saying "merry Christmas" to me. It's probably the friendliest I've ever experienced it today.

Aer Lingus staff wearing tinsel and singing Fairytale of New York as the plane landed.

Free mince pies at the airport

Happy Christmas AH ya filthy animal

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens etc

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