" Even now , 50 yr later , I still commemorate his benignity toward a scared new girl . "
Recently,u/404InHumanFormaskedr/AskReddit, “What’s the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you that you’ll never forget?” And we thought we’d share some of them with you.
1.“A random dude gave me five dollars. I was sitting in a gas station, using my last five to get me home, which wasn’t going to put in enough gas, but it’s what I had. Out of nowhere, this guy comes up to my car and puts a five in my window. All he said was, ‘God is good.’ I think he won in the casinos and was really happy. Everyone in the gas station got five dollars from him.”
– NormalNobody
2.“Back when I was a dancer, this young girl used to sit quietly and watch me practice. She would do this for a few minutes once a week for a year. At the end of the year, she gave me a rose. I’m a man. I mean – I was a male teenager then. Do you know how often men get flowers? Never. This was 30 years ago and I still remember it. I hope that young girl is still as sweet and awesome now as she was back then.”
– tcrudisi
3.“I met a woman on a walk and shared with her that it was my birthday. She recommended a plant shop on my way home and when I got there, she had called ahead and paid for me to pick out two plants for my birthday. I still have them several years later – so thoughtful!”
– Anxious - Vegetable694
4.“When I was 16 (in 1975), I rode the public transit bus to and from my first job. One night going home, it was pouring rain and violent thunderstorm with lots of lightening. I was the only person on the bus. The bus driver asked me how far I had to walk after getting off the bus. I told him I had about six blocks to go, and that I didn’t have an umbrella.”
" The coach driver rend into a 7 - 11 parking wad and parked the bus . He get out his umbrella and ran with me all the way home . He conduct me to move away from all the tree so we did n’t get atomise by lightening just as a youthful sapling tree diagram was fall and went up in green goddess . He got me home dependable and ran back to his bus to go forward his road . I could have died that night . Even now , 50 year by and by , I still remember his forgivingness toward a scared youthful girl . "
– Quicherbichen1
5.“I used to have to get up for work at 4:30am to start work at six. That involved taking two night shift buses. I got off bus one, and had to walk a couple of minutes to the next stop. When I got to stop number two a guy came up to me asking for a light for his cigarette. In reality, he came over to say a guy had been following me and had heard him say some rather disturbing things about me on the phone. Good guy stayed with me until my bus arrived.”
– IShouldBeSoLucky81
6.“A woman hugged me at a bus stop when I was crying after abreak-upand said, ‘You don’t have to be okay today’.”
– riasplaylist
7.“My mom died in an accident. I was devastated, and flew home hours later. I sat in the window seat with tears streaming down my face the entire flight. There was a lady in my row who was traveling home fromDisneywith her grand children. We didn’t speak at all, but when we landed she said her name was Helen, and asked if she could give a hug. Helen was the name of a good friend of my mom that passed from cancer years before. Thirty years later, it still gives me comfort.”
– sjss21
8.“I work at a fast food restaurant full time and I’ve helped the same customer every Tuesday for three years. One day she came in and gifted me a Michael Kors purse.”
– Adorable_Counter_897
9.“Not a stranger exactly, but I didn’t know him other than recognising him as neighbour across the street.”
" My senior German sheepherder collapsed after a walk ( this happen in my front yard ) , and this neighbor was outside mowing his lawn . He saw what happened , lead over , and give my frank CPR include deliverance breaths – turn out the neighbour was a voluntary firefighter . My husband came home right around then , and we were capable to rush her to the pinch vet . She survived that episode , but did go on about a week afterwards . I will never forget it because that is super neighbour . "
– Pearsecco
10.“We had a Father’s Day dinner with about eight people. Some random person paid for our entire table. I assumed it was because my grandmother was in an electric scooter and is obviously physically disabled. Either way, that was very kind of them.”
– thunder - trippin
11.“I worked retail and was stuck working Thanksgiving. This patron that came around often saw I was working, left, and brought back a plate for me with all the Thanksgiving favourites.”
– fr33r1de
12.“A husband and wife allowed me to use up the six minutes they had left on their dryer. It saved me money and warmed my heart. I’d just moved here from a toxic living environment. That gesture gave me peace and hope that everything will be fine going forward. I needed that after five years of bad social encounters.”
– Morbid_Curiousity30
13.“I was at home sick with a 103 fever and severe flu. I had to walk my dog. It was winter, in the cold and rain. I walk the same route everyday. This very kind man saw me (we sometimes chatted), and when he saw how sick I was, took the dog for his walk while I went home.”
" He showed up 20 minutes later on with my dog , a big thermos of hot soup and , forget his card and phone number for me . He told me to get sound , and if I needed him to take the air the cad , call him and he would come get him . That was the tolerant thing anyone has ever done for me . "
– Majestic - Log-5642
14.“About eight or nine years ago, my partner and I had lost our jobs. We were just about scraping by. We had an old little banger of a car that was serving us very well, but we had to be very careful using it due to petrol being expensive. I took the car down to the petrol station to top up the tank and as I went to pay, my car declined.”
" The amount I ’d put into the railcar was € 12 worth , so not a peck . I try my other card . Also decline . front to see if I had any cash . € 0 . I called my partner to see if he could occur meet me with money , he had no cash either . I was so embarrassed .
There was a waiting line of hoi polloi behind me now , and I did n’t sleep together what to do as I ’d already put the petrol into the railcar . I was getting flustered . The woman behind me came up and tap her card to pay for it . I begin to cry and distinguish her give thanks you and postulate her for her details so I could give her back and she just said , " No , no , please pay it frontward . It ’s no trouble at all . ” I sobbed the whole way home , ( and I pay it forward whenever I can . ) "
– Fonnmhar
15.“Once my Uber driver saw me got into the car with puffy eyes, visibly having just cried. He started a conversation with me, saying I look like a very kind person. He then even prayed for me to feel better, I’m not exactly religious, but that really got me in my feelings even deeper. I got out the car feeling so blessed.”
– kinkmusee
16.“I was eight months pregnant going to a doctor’s appointment at the hospital. There were no parking spots close to the building, so I had to park waaaay at the back. I started to waddle my way to the entrance when it started raining. A guy in an SUV stops, rolls down his window, hands me an umbrella and drives away.”
– Active - General7166
17.“Was hitching through Nebraska in late November. Got dropped off in the middle of nowhere, was thinking of breaking into an abandoned motel to not freeze. Got picked up by an old dude in an old truck. He’d done 20 years in prison – which usually means murder in Canada – and caught god. He took me to the shelter where he worked in Fredericton, got me a hot meal, talked to the priest, and put me on a bus to my destination. 30 years gone, I can’t remember his name, but I try to live up to his example.”
– Milligoon
18.“My husband was on a cross-country motorcycle trip when his bike broke down in rural Ohio on a Saturday night. He didn’t have AAA at the time, so he couldn’t get roadside assistance. A random stranger pulled over and helped him get the motorcycle into a pickup truck, drove him to a motel. He then came back the next morning to get him to a UHaul place that was open and could rent him a trailer to get the bike home.”
– thefuzzybunny1
19.“I had picked my daughter up from her mother’s place. My daughter was still car seat age. My car broke down an hour away from home. I was stranded between two exits. I had forgotten my phone and wallet and only had a small amount of cash. So I got my daughter and started walking to the nearest exit to possibly find help.”
" Not 30 second after I start walk along the main road with my daughter in blazon , this family stopped to help . No judicial decision , but I could order they were down on there luck . I told them my taradiddle , they had three Kid in their car . They put their car seat in the body and the ma sat with their three kid in the back while my girl sit in my lap upfront .
They stopped for gun and make for my daughter a crapulence . I was maneuver to the south and they tell me they were head west . So they end up taking us home which was completely out of the way . Right before we arrived a Brobdingnagian tempest hit , and it was rain down hard .
We finally got back . I give thanks them extravagantly . I offered them money , bathroom , solid food , snacks … . They asked for nothing in restoration then repel off into the rainfall satiate evening . They went two hr out of their way to help us . I ’m still blown forth by this and use it as a reminder to assist people when I can . This was over 20 year ago and I really hope they are doing well . "
– aluminumnek
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