Random Acts of Kindness

It's the middle of winter but still it's 35C(95F) in the shade today. Anyway, it's a shit day to get a flat tyre on your motorcycle, 3kms from anywhere.

As I was walking in the blistering heat to get to the bike shop, a stranger stopped as he was passing, asked me where I was going and then turned around(he was going the other way) and gave me a ride to the bike shop.

Random acts of kindness like this seem to happen to me quite a bit. It has led me to change the way I live over the last 5-8years and try to be more helpful to others.

So, I was wondering, how often do you do something nice for a stranger?
or
What's the nicest thing a stranger ever did for you?

 

I'm always doing random acts of kindness, as much as I can.

The other day, I was behind a school bus, and the bus let off this little kid who was just standing there, looking around and he started to cry. He couldn't have been older than 7. I knew he was lost, so I pulled over and got out (I didn't want to ask him to get in my car). He got off at the wrong stop. So, I walked around with him until finally he recognized his house. When we got there, he gave me a big hug and his mother tried paying me, but I wouldn't take it. It was nice to help that kid out. Imagine if I weren't there!?

I work at an inn and we had a guy that was proposing to his girlfriend there. So, he went and got flowers, a teddy bear, and a bag of rose petals, and I told him if he took her out to lunch, I'd set it up for him. We usually don't do that, but I knew this situation was so special because he's originally from Georgia and he came here for a job and he hadn't seen his girlfriend for months. So, I went up and arranged the roses on the bed wit the teddy bear and a card. I filled the whirlpool and sprinkled rose petals all over and found some floating candles that I lit and put in there. It was amazing to be able to help someone with such a memorable moment

I love being nice!

 

I never do anything nice, I'm a scrooge.

 

Well, let's just say that I know this to be absolute bollocks for a start.

 

i don't do anything nice for people either, it's not that i'm a scrooge..it's just that i have no heart
my soul belongs to the devil

 

i dont really do anything particularly big for people in a nice way...
i work at a movie store, i sometimes pull off some of the charges if i can and they genuinely never had the policy explainedn to them (not their fault)
i edited a friend/former teacher (best friends bf who was a graduate student and therefore had to teach a class that i ended up taking on photography) thesis type paper... some 50 pgs of insanity. he ended up paying me, but it was totally unexpected... it tried turning it down but he wouldnt tak eit back >.> i went and bought groceries with it

 

I got bundled up just a few days ago to assist a stranger who was stuck in the parking lot here. Another tenant who had been busy cleaning snow off his car joined in when he saw me pushing.

 

Well... what a stranger did nice for me? Maybe a car driver not passing over me when I was crossing and haven't seen him come?

 

The nicest thing I did for a stranger was hmmmm, this is a hard one, will have to come back to this one...

The nicest thing a stranger ever did for me would have to be the time someone felt the need to notify me that I should have been an aborted fetus...I thank that stranger every day for electing to be the one to tell me this, I can now sleep at night knowing this information, thank you stranger, thank you....

 

I was on the way to the airport not too long ago. My friend was driving me, and we broke down half way. A guy was nice enough to stop by and try to give us a jump. Jump didn't help so he offered to take me to the airport... really nice of him. I had to decline because I really did not want to impose on him... but it was still nice.

Had another friend pick us up and take me to the airport. Worked out really well too, because he brought a joint with him. Passed through the terminal in a wonderfully calming haze.

 

I've had a lot of nice things happen in airports. This 60ish year old woman approached me in one as I was waiting to be picked up by a friend. She asked me if it was my first time in her country and when I said yes she brought me to the bar and bought us each a bottle of what she said was the best beer in the country. We drank. She welcomed me to her country and left.

When I'm leaving a place, I usually find somebody who is arriving and give them my public transport travelcard if there is any time left on it. Always gets a smile.

 

Hah, that's pretty damn awesome.

I had people buy me beer at U.S. airports when I was way underage... like 14-17.

It was great.

 

take every opp. to do whatever I can, for whoever, cause I have usually been in the same Dam Boat, at one time or another,,,and it sucks when you ain`t got no one to lean on for only a second even,,,.

 

there is a random acts of kindness journal blogsite started by an aikido dojo

www.manyactsofkindness.com

i was going to start a thread about it if this one hadn't already existed.

although i might not have because i almost forgot. so again thanx for the kindness of reminding us all.

=^^=
.../\...

 

Hmmm... I try to help out when I can. I asked my Mom to help my friend find his son in the system, so he could see him at Christmas, but Mom did the work on that one.

Hey when our office orders take out, I order an extra big dinner and give half to our security guard. He is just the cutest old guy and I love him to death. That isn't very random though now that I've made it a habit.

I picked up a guy who was walking to work in the freezing cold. Such an interesting fella too. He is going back to school, at around my age, and trying to get his shit together after some really tragic circumstances.

 

The thing I did that to me seemed to have the greatest impact on a person was....

I had just filled the truck up and rolled it around back to park for the night. I walked up to the front to get my fuel ticket and there was this tall very tragically thin man. He looked like he did not have much left in him, skin just hanging from his bones. His clothes were all torn, really dirty, shoes were mismatched and filled full of holes. As I walked up on him he asked for a shower coupon (we get free showers with 50 gallons or more). Well I ignored him for a bit, long enough to get my fuel ticket and came back to him. We walked into the store part and of coarse the employees told him to leave but I quickly said he was with me. We shopped for a rolling duffle bag, 2 pair of pants, 4 shirts, 4 pair of boxers, 4 pair of sox, a set of boots, soap, shaving kit and a light jacket (was still spring time). I sent him into the showers, he cleaned up changed and then I took him in for dinner with me, we ate up real good at the slop line (buffet). Then before I left to go to bed I gave him $100.00. He was deeply grateful and said he had no idea what he could do to repay me. I said it was nothing and that maybe someday when things are different for him he could do the same.

His face before during and when we parted will forever be the greatest thing to me. I had always dont things in my life for others, its my families way but that made me really love to do it!

 

Good on you!

It is awesome to reach out to a stranger with love. It lifts and fills the soul in that moment.