Hi all,
What was the most nicest thing that a stranger has done for you?
I'll start.
I started this new elemetary school in Feb. entering grade 7 so, I didn't make many new friends right away. We had a year-end class field-trip to the beach. I started to walk around on the beach alone. I left my shoes by the sitting area and figured that if I just walked straight, then, I'd be okay. Well, I ended up getting lost because I couldn't find my way back. Apparently, I had walked so far south that I ended up at another beach! I had been walking for hours trying to find my way back and had no idea that there was another beach connected to the one where we went initially.
I saw this nice couple and told them that I was lost and was sobbing. They drove me to the beach that they thought that I may have belonged there. They were so nice and helpful. They tried their best to comfort me and such. When I got back, nobody even knew that I was missing for a while. Oh well.
Jimmy Carter waved to me as I was walking down the Mall in London.
Jimmy Carter is the BOMB.
When I was a toddler I accidentaly let my dog out of the house and he went running down the sidewalk. I chased him and he ditched my slow ass. Soon, I was hopelessly lost and terrified. I stumbled past a Unitarian church, tears streaming from my puffy little eyes and some of them had me sit down on the church steps as they comforted me and made some phone calls. My mom drove by a few minutes later and saw me sitting there, safe among friends.
When I was little, there was a river near where I lived. I was convinced that I discovered it and I made a flag so that everyone would know it (oh, to be 6!).
I went to go put my flag on the shore and I got lost on my way there! I ended up at a Shell gas station, where the guy who worked there told me that it was okay and gave me a chocolate bar, then called my mum to come and pick me up. I thought that was so nice of him, especially since I wasn't allowed to have any candy and it was the first chocolate bar I ever ate. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
Purelife, you have been blessed again!
When my purse was stolen, someone gave me enough for a bus ticket home.
We''re evidently in a halcyon phase at present, everyone seems to like their job and now all these heartwarming stories of the nice things that strangers have done for us...and what's more, blessings are flying all over the place!
I had to get my mind off a few sad things. My supervisor's mum is really sick and may be dieing soon. I'm just feeling really mellow and sad at the moment.
Plus, 007 did suggest to make new topics. :)
purelife wrote: What was the most nicest thing that a stranger has done for you?
A girl once had wild, uninhibited sex with me, but she wasn't all that strange. lol
tenkani wrote:
Jimmy Carter is the BOMB.
When I was a toddler I accidentaly let my dog out of the house and he went running down the sidewalk. I chased him and he ditched my slow ass. Soon, I was hopelessly lost and terrified. I stumbled past a Unitarian church, tears streaming from my puffy little eyes and some of them had me sit down on the church steps as they comforted me and made some phone calls. My mom drove by a few minutes later and saw me sitting there, safe among friends.
Did Carter ever return your dog?
TehBorken wrote:
purelife wrote: [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]What was the most nicest thing that a stranger has done for you?[/SPAN]
A girl once had wild, uninhibited sex with me, but she wasn't all that strange. lol
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Strange? I never thought so for one moment since familiar seems to have been the operative word.
Aw (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/20.gif) cheer up, purelife! Think of your favorite things!
007 wrote:
Aw (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/20.gif) cheer up, purelife! Think of your favorite things!
US!
purelife wrote:
I had to get my mind off a few sad things. My supervisor's mum is really sick and may be dieing soon. I'm just feeling really mellow and sad at the moment. [/DIV]
I'm so sorry for your sadness. It's never easy when someone is going and there is no way to help.
I'm going to be enjoying the grind, so that shall be fun!
It's difficult to get any work done at the moment.
There are times in life when work is even more trival than at others - don't worry about it!
Hugs, Purelife.
I remember hitting black ice while driving with my young daughter, late at night in Northern BC. We inevitably crashed into the side of the mountain. Amazed that we survived, all the semi's diriving late that night hit the brakes, wanting to stop and help....but putting themselves in danger as thay too would start losing control.
I grabbed my daughter, and climbed a little ways up the side of the mountain, because I was afraid someone was going to crash into us. We were freezing..... finally 2 guys stopped to help. I was travelling with very little money and didn't own a credit card. He called BCAA to come and tow my car to the nearest town, telling them I was his wife.
They trusted a cheque I gave them, while they paid for a room at the towns' hotel. In the morning, I took my daughter for breakfast, and they were there. I thanked them a thousand times more, and when we left, they had paid for our breakfast....and my car was in the parking lot, ready to roll.
Good call Adam.
Glad to see you've discovered the beauty of the 'Remove' button.
It's great.
I removed it as soon as I realized that you wanted to be cheered up.
How about this: A whole bunch of strangers helped me make a movie once, just to be part of making it, not for pay (since I couldn't afford to pay them at the time). The thrill of working together with people in independent creative endeavors can really be something else.
Love and hugs, PL.
Hope you feel better soon, mi amiga (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/19.gif)
[br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"][span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Did Carter ever return your dog?[/span]
No. He had the poor mutt disassembled for parts and used the ribs and hide to build a shelter in Nigeria from what I heard. Still, can't complain. CARTER IS THE BEST EX PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!!!
Are we still on the topic of the nicest thing a stranger has done? Well, I think one of the nicest things in the world is when a gentleman runs ahead of me just to open the door. I love it when that happens and it makes me feel very special. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/12.gif)
Thanks you guys. I'm feeling better now. I just hope that it doesn't start to rain....that would really suck. Please, could you guys do the no-rain dance for me?
P.C., your story reminded me of Stoner (ex-dv'er) who helped me by using his BCAA membership to tow my car away. Long story, but he was so super nice and we had only just met from a dv get-together. I miss him.
Hi Miss Sassy! *hugs*
That is a nice thing when a stranger does that. And, it doesn't happen too often nowadays.
One of my co-worker who drove me to the skytrain from my second night job opened the car door for me first. I had a wonderful feeling because nobody ever opened the car door for me that was a guy.
SassyCassy wrote:
Are we still on the topic of the nicest thing a stranger has done? Well, I think one of the nicest things in the world is when a gentleman runs ahead of me just to open the door. I love it when that happens and it makes me feel very special.
We usually do this just so we can get a good look at your butt. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
Yes, for sure! I was going to say that but it was better to come from a guy.
I went skiing in sunshine village when I was like 14 with a group of people. And I lost my wallet on the ski hill with all my money in it that I had for the trip.
Anyway someone spotted me the cash for it. Anyways a few weeks after that trip I came home from school and someone mailed it to me money and all.
Nice thread, purelife. I liked reading those stories. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c017.gif" border=0]
You're welcome PC. I like these stories too.
I can't remember what a stranger has ever done for me at the moment but my sister once saved me from choking, I saved a girl once from drowning, broken up a bunch of fights and saved a house from burning down by pointing out to a girl at camp once that the micro wave was on fire. Can't think of anything else at the moment.
There was this one time when my ex and I were at Paris and we had a lot of luggage to carry. We were walking to the Bus Depot to catch a ride to London. Well, this nice lady helped us carry two of our luggages all the way to this depot for about 20 minutes. That was 7 years ago and to this day, I've been sending her 'xmas cards telling her how much of an angel she was to me.
Wow, someone just smited me. For what, I wonder.....
Now that's a coincident, purelife. I had a 'Bus Depot Angel' once also. (mind you, I wasn't anywhere as exotic as Paris). I was on the ferry, coming back home after several days of cleaning up my dads' house after he died. I was to catch the bus which would take me close to home, but with a hefty walk from the stop. I was loaded down with carry-ons, AND it was pouring rain and needless to say, I was feeling pretty down.
A gal that had struck up a conversation with me (which in itself was most welcome) discovered we lived in the same area (generally). When I got up for the call, "All passengers purchasing bus tickets....." she came after me, and offered a ride. TO MY DOOR !!!!!
I ran into her several years later at a party, and I had the good fortune to be able to thank her all over again. I was glad to have the opportunity to tell her, that I had told the strory many times over the years.
That's heartwarming, PL. Things like that renew my faith in humanity.
That reminds me. I saw this comercial the other day, it had like a "pay it forward" theme. Someone would do something nice for someone else, and then that person would do something nice for someone etc etc etc.
I was smiling and thinking that it was a great message to put out there. I thought maybe it was from a church or something and then it turned out to be an insurance ad or something and all of a sudden I'm like "f*ck!! I'VE BEEN OWNED!!!"
It's amazing how fast life can go from being fuzzy and warm to a big pile of steaming shit.
Purelife wrote: Wow, someone just smited me. For what, I wonder.....
How bizarre !!!! There are only 5 people on line. Hmmmmm. Well, 4 not including you, AND 3 not including ME. DOUBLE Hmmmmmm.
I've done a My Name is Earl type thing once and still trying. I've been bad to lots of people some of it wasn't my fault and I just was having problems and some of it was. I had to say sorry to a teacher I gave a bad time when I was in 8th grade. Grandpa just had died, had major depression, ran away from school, fell apart on Halloween and never went back. Yelled at my teacher a lot. Went back two years ago to apologize. Made me feel better about myself. Now if I could only do the same thing to the Megans' cliche group. That will be a big one, anything that gets you arrested is pretty big, I guess.
But that leads me to the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me. After the incident that got me arrested my dad and I cleaned up what I and a couple other people did. Well they hired a lawyer to get my huge fine taken away and got the cops to change some key wording in the crime report. They got it changed from spray paint to shaving cream. This avoided a permenant record and only got me 30 hrs of community service. For that I am grateful.
Aaaah.................... all those stories are heartwarming.
Nicest things ppl have done:
a) give a wide berth to a pregnant lady
b) hold up doors when I'm pushing the stroller
c) let Lise Jr. pat their dogs
d) today someone offered me a sample of Starbucks banana chocolate coffee!!! YIPPPEEE!!!!
OK, there are too many things that nice strangers have done for yours truly. I've done my share too. I'm a great believer in giving back to the community when I can. Positive karma to those who do good deeds unto others.
i was in church one day . cleaning up from years of substance abuse and horrid living . i knew his name but never really new him .. i spent 2 weeks detoxing on his couch eating his wifes fantastic cooking ... gained a lot of weight , smoking his menthol ciggys. damn that was nice of him , the church aranged for me to have a room paid the first months rent and got me hooked up with welfare something i never even knew exsisted .
yah i been round the block a few times. a older lady 60 -70 something took me from the spot i had been panhandling for a huge meal in the bay ? resteraunt corner of georgia and granville . some lady returned my wallette to me a few days after i had lost it at granville station while running from a authority figure with a large gun . not sure what he wanted me for possibly it might have been the fact i had just finished selling something not to legit to another fellow.
panning on water street while singing badly offkey a guy gave me 20 bucks . my bro street brother not blood brother did 2 years jail time cause he got busted with my dope. he did my time for my dope he never said a word and has never asked for nothin in repayment.
again pannin on water st a lady gave me this way uber green grey fleece zip sweater ultra warm very nice and about 20 cans of cat food ( fancy feast ) my kitty still says thanks for that . she said santa had deliverd it to her work place cause he had a hard time finding mine , ( prolly cuase i rarely stayrd in a place long)
nicest thing a guy did for me i noticed he had bought new shoes i asked if i could have his old ones , the next sunday he gave me what i thought were his old shoes they were his new ones . i have cried for many reasons over the years but i still havnt cried over something some one has done like that ....
i tell you listen to the song christmass shoes by new song youll know what cryings like . yup tons of things i could say about nice things people have done for me but ill save some of them for another day .
Sighs . no other nice story's out thier. ?
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It's a good one Orik.....worth a re-read.
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bumped for the need of some nice things to cheer up a downtrodden ol'boy.
My landlord's cousin, upon finding out I had been ripped off at work and had to take my employer to Labour Relations, a week before Christmas, caught me alone for a moment and insisted I accept $50. He was living Australia, visiting for Christmas, and I had just met him.
I had thought I had money in the bank and then found out, 14 days after the fact, that my employer had put a stop payment on a cheque I had deposited two weeks earlier. I had no idea until my bank card was declined. I had been working up until the day I found out about the cheque, blissfully unaware that I had been correct about what a snake the little man that publishes Dream House was.
I won, by the way, so it's all public record and there is no slander here. The employer had to pay me, plus interest, plus fines for the three labour laws he broke while screwing me over.
I sometimes make karma happen for others where needed.
There are many times that people have shown incredible kindness and generosity towards me. There are good people in the world.
Yes, there certainly are, and it's nice to at last have somewhere where we can read about them.
I am so bored, so, I thought about revisiting this topic.
Uhm, a nice man opened the doors for me at the store today. :)
What was the nicest thing that a stranger has ever done for you?
Had sex with me. She was strange and it was nice.
Ah, rather than her being nice and it being strange.
not so much a stranger but they created a thread and talked me into getting a CMNGT* account so they could donate some money to peppers vet bill.... eugenicist thing anyone's done for me lately...
awww...that is so sweet of that person to care and think about pepper. Your pepper is an absolute sweetheart. bless its cotton socks!
Our department in my company adopted a family for 'xmas. We all pitched in with food, clothes and cash for groceries. She was a single mom with a 6 year old son. She was in tears to see our goodies delivered to her door last week.
Wow, thats pretty nice PL. 'bless'
I feel really sorry for single mothers. Id wander away mumbling if someone came up to me to thank me for something then burst into tears.
I know what you mean Russ. It gives me tears too.
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Oh, and there was this one time, earlier this year, when I was at a Sample Sale on Main Street behind the Home Depot area that the lady who left offered me a ride to the skytrain. It was pouring rain and I was in a hurry to get somewhere (don't remember where) and it was like, she had read my mind. We were talking for a bit before she had asked and I was walking to the skytrain when she pulled down her windows and asked if I wanted the ride to the skytrain. That was really nice of her.
Gotta be: crashed on their couch
we came, we palyed, we crashed on your couch.
I remember many years ago, not too long after I had become single......I was on the mainland, to take care of my Dads house after he had passed away. It wasn't a pleasant job, and it was smack in the middle of the end of my LONG marriage. Things weren't going well. I had lost my house, lost my car, and lost my Dad. I was on the ferry coming home, and had struck up a conversation with a gal sitting next to me. She was very pleasant, with wonderful stories, that made the trip so much less awful.
I excused myself, while she was telling another great story, to go and purchase a bus ticket when the announcement was made, and she said...."Oh Jeez....don't take the bus....I'll drive you home"
She said this before she had any idea of where I lived....so of course I explained that I lived in an area that was probably a little out of the way for her. No prob she said. As it turned out, I was merely 5 minutes beyond where she lived. It was still an imposition, in my mind, but she happily drove me to my door. (In the most miserable weather imaginable)
I always see her as my angel.
(I ran into her many years later at a lake party.....and when it occurred to me who she was, let her know what an angel she was to me during that time)
I was tree planting in Northern Sask., millennia ago, when our camp burned down one long weekend. We were not allowed to weekend in the camp for fear that we might get drunk and, I dunno, burn it down or something.
So there I was, on the Victoria Day Monday or whatever, with the heebie-jeebies from 3 days' heroic boozing, and no place to live. These guys that I knew directed me to a house nearby, saying that the lady there ran a sort of boarding house and would probably put me up until the insurance kicked in a day or two later.
So I knocked on her door, and she said, no, she didn't run a boarding house or anything of the sort. Must have been a quaint little joke on the part of my acquaintances. But she said she'd put me up anyway, for nothing, I could have her bed, and she would sleep with the kids in their bed.
So that's how it went. I didn't have to milk the cows in the morning or anything. She was just helping out a stranger in difficulty.
I mean, there I was, 3 days drunk, just a jean-jacketed long-haired laborer, and she helped me out. I'll never forget this. I know that she could read that I wasn't a threat, but I wonder, how can you read that? Some people are just totally beyond me.