Random Acts Of Kindness

Carole

Carole

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I’m just starting this thread so that you can post your experience of either giving or receiving a random act of kindness.

This is a very recent one of mine.

On Friday nights we usually have a takeaway but last Friday my husband was going to a works function so I wasn’t going to order a takeout just for me.
I was just debating what to cook for myself when the doorbell rang.
My relatively new Indian neighbour was on the doorstep, handing me a chicken biryani. She said that her hobby was cooking and she wanted to share. She had a whole pile of them and I’ve later found out that she distributed them around our cul de sac to the neighbours.
How lovely.
This same couple, within two weeks of moving into the village, turned up in our church, at a Booksale fundraiser with 50 samosas to sell to raise funds.

Some people are just lovely.
 
Bob

Bob

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We went out one evening just before Christmas, it was pouring down and freezing cold, somewhere in Stoke, I have no idea where and we were running late to meet some friends for a meal, I was having a conversation with my husband about having to park elsewhere and neither of us had change for the parking meter, then suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere having seen us hunting under the seats to no avail with a ticket he had just purchased for us.

It was only £1 but it meant such a lot, he saved the evening!
 
Carole

Carole

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Bob said:
We went out one evening just before Christmas, it was pouring down and freezing cold, neither of us had change for the parking meter, then suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere with a ticket he had just purchased for us.

It was only £1 but it meant such a lot, he saved the evening!
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Not quite the same but if I’ve bought a parking ticket for a few hours but then find that my errands have only taken half an hour and I’ve got loads of time left on my ticket, I do walk up to the ticket machine and offer my ticket to someone else.
People do seem to be thrilled and delighted with the unexpected offer of free parking

And I am when someone does it to me.
What goes around comes around etc.
 
Tilly

Tilly

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Carole said:
Not quite the same but if I’ve bought a parking ticket for a few hours but then find that my errands have only taken half an hour and I’ve got loads of time left on my ticket, I do walk up to the ticket machine and offer my ticket to someone else.
People do seem to be thrilled and delighted with the unexpected offer of free parking

And I am when someone does it to me.
What goes around comes around etc.
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Law breaker!

Send her down !
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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A homeless man sleeping in a doorway once stopped us putting money into a parking meter, as it was free on the day we dropped son off for his theory test in Wolverhampton.
We gave him some of the money he had saved us.( Was going to buy him a cuppa or meal once we got back after sons test, but only his cardboard and bedding were there when we got back to the car)
 
peggy

peggy

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Carole said:
I’m just starting this thread so that you can post your experience of either giving or receiving a random act of kindness.

This is a very recent one of mine.

On Friday nights we usually have a takeaway but last Friday my husband was going to a works function so I wasn’t going to order a takeout just for me.
I was just debating what to cook for myself when the doorbell rang.
My relatively new Indian neighbour was on the doorstep, handing me a chicken biryani. She said that her hobby was cooking and she wanted to share. She had a whole pile of them and I’ve later found out that she distributed them around our cul de sac to the neighbours.
How lovely.
This same couple, within two weeks of moving into the village, turned up in our church, at a Booksale fundraiser with 50 samosas to sell to raise funds.

Some people are just lovely.
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I think I might move house!

I experienced a very generous act of kindness from a forum member. I don’t think he’s active on here any more but he heard my young son had been a victim of theft and he replaced the costly item with a brand new identical item. We’d never met and rarely spoken. His only request was that I passed it on when my son had finished with it which I did.
I also received an anonymous donation on just giving from someone who left a message to say he was randomly donating to me as an act of kindness.
I try to pass on acts of kindness in various ways to strangers from donations or gifts. I like to try to stay anonymous. It gives a very good feeling inside and it started because of the generosity of one of our forum members.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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You assume a narrative that people are, on the whole, good and wholesome, and somehow this makes you a bleeding heart liberal.

You assume a narrative that people are, on the whole, evil and recidivist, and this somehow makes you a realist.

But one of you is wrong.

Or are you?
 
Tilly

Tilly

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Withnail said:
You assume a narrative that people are, on the whole, good and wholesome, and somehow this makes you a bleeding heart liberal.

You assume a narrative that people are, on the whole, evil and recidivist, and this somehow makes you a realist.

But one of you is wrong.

Or are you?
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You do realise planet Earth is a board game don't you
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
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