The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Pedwardine on July 18, 2013, 10:35:01 pm
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Did most of my shopping in Aldi today and then went to nasty Tesco for some odd bits Aldi don't stock. Found the tilapia was being reduced at the fish counter :thumbsup: . Love tilapia and can never normally afford it. I think the fish was the start of my wrong additions as I thought I had three fillets when there were four. Got to the checkout to find I had miscalculated by a few quid and returned some bits to take off the bill. I'm past being embarrassed about that sort of thing as it's become the norm in my current skint state. However what was far from the norm was the lovely chap behind me who said "Can I pay for those for you?". I had a teeny pause whilst I looked at the checkout lady and she looked at me. I asked "Seriously?" whereupon he replied he'd got a day off work and "Happy Thursday!". I gratefully accepted and gave him a thankyou peck on the cheek which seemed to surprise him as much as he'd surprised me :-* . I said I hoped someone would shine on him as he had shone on me :sunshine: and went my way smiling in a big fashion.
How bloomin' lovely was he!!
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You should have asked him to marry you :excited: :excited: :excited:
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random acts of kindness are the best thing ever,
receiving them is great, giving them is also very rewarding!!!
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OH may have thought that was being too grateful Doganjo ;D
I love RAOK. I tell people when they have a nice smile or look pretty. Makes someone's day. Once told a bloke he smelt nice. You should've seen how fast he could run...
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How very lovely of him, I always feel it restores my faith in people when you hear about this kind of thing - mostly you hear only the bad about people.
I love your reply as well, about the sun shining on him :sunshine: I bet he went away feeling as happy as you did :thumbsup:
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ahh, thats so kind.
my daughter (6) was outside the bank counting her pennies when an old man stopped and emptied his pockets and gave her all his change. a random act of kindness and shes never forgotten about it.
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One of my late Uncles was such a great guy, they had a small caravan holiday home type thing, that they would spend most of the summer there....
it was only two miles from a holiday park at Dawlish warren, on a big tide, the road use to flood, many cars would would have problems...
one day , we had just returned to his caravan , we saw out the window a car had become stuck in the flood water.
"Come on Boy" he said... so off we went .... when we reached the car, the poor family where stressed to say the least , they only had the 2 miles to go to reach their holiday camp.....we pushed the car out the water and parked it on the field.... Uncle Rob asked me to drop the family down to the camp..which i did.... i said i would pick the father up at 9am the next day...... to collect his car
9 am the next morning, i picked up the father, he said he would arrange for a garage to pick up his car, when we got back to the car, my uncle had cleaned out the carbs, dried everything off and charged the battery over night,, he even topped up the oil :roflanim: .... the guy was blown away..almost speechless..he went to offer my uncle a wad of notes.... my uncle just grabbed the fist of notes and pushed it back towards the guy.......with a big smile , he looked at the guy and said........" you just have a wonderful holiday" the bloke was totally gobsmacked
a week later, they where on their way home.... they stopped at uncles caravan, and the guys children gave my uncle a thankyou card with some flowers for my auntie and some chocolates for my uncle.... my uncle being the man he was, opened up the chocolates and started sharing them with the children over a cup of tea.....
the family use to pop in every year after, to say hello to uncle rob, when they came on their holidays , they never forgot his random act of kindness
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There are really lovely people around. It does restore your faith in human nature a bit as we come across so many ignorant and discourteous people.
Helen
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I showed a random act of kindness to my husband yesterday. I DIDNT hit him over the head with the frying pan!! :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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I showed a random act of kindness to my husband yesterday. I DIDNT hit him over the head with the frying pan!! :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: bless him
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Pedwardine, I think thats just lovely. :thumbsup: for that man
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NM That's fabulous!!
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That's wonderful, :thumbsup: I worry about my husband as for some strange reason, he only takes out a small amount of cash unless we are doing a big shop and often, even in petrol stations, they let him off the few extra pence that he goes over......although we too do not get embarrassed, we went to get some bits and bobs from Tesco last night, not the usual 10p deals but clothing, he piled in some shirts for work and I picked up 2 tops, we got to the till and he only had £40 :rant: so I had no choice but to use my currently hard worked card due to insurance, AA and buying the car......so NM
showed a random act of kindness to my husband yesterday. I DIDNT hit him over the head with the frying pan!!
me too :innocent:
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I now have a big ;D reading about such lovely kind people.
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I have been behind numerous people lately putting items back to reduce the bill, and the checkout girl seems well used to it. Also debit cards being declined is the norm too. Happened to me - fortunately I had some cash to pay. Rushed to the card machine to discover I am well overdrawn (again).
What a nice thing for that man to do - hopefully he will be repaid by someone doing HIM a kindness one day......and at least you got your shopping.
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I've never forgotten the rather 'rough' looking couple who took pity on a 20yo me who having left OH and broken down car and two cats on the motorway hard shoulder, managed to lose the AA man who was leading me back in my hire car back to them, and realised I had forgotten what motorway and what junction :o
They spent an hour and a half leading me up and down the nearby motorways until we spotted OH and the car and cats in their travel cage.....
Being a poor student then I didn't even have any money to give them, but I've never forgotten how kind it was of them and how very often the kindest people are the ones with the most tattoos and without the flash cars :-))))) :thumbsup:
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I have been behind numerous people lately putting items back to reduce the bill, and the checkout girl seems well used to it. Also debit cards being declined is the norm too. Happened to me - fortunately I had some cash to pay. Rushed to the card machine to discover I am well overdrawn (again).
me too - mortifying. i now shop on-line with tesco as i get a chance to adjust what i buy and keep within budget. i just cannot shop in the store without spending too much. plus i get embarrassed in store if we have to have "noodle week", with a family of 5, thats alot of noodles in your trolley :roflanim: :roflanim:
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I've never forgotten the rather 'rough' looking couple who took pity on a 20yo me who having left OH and broken down car and two cats on the motorway hard shoulder, managed to lose the AA man who was leading me back in my hire car back to them, and realised I had forgotten what motorway and what junction :o
They spent an hour and a half leading me up and down the nearby motorways until we spotted OH and the car and cats in their travel cage.....
Being a poor student then I didn't even have any money to give them, but I've never forgotten how kind it was of them and how very often the kindest people are the ones with the most tattoos and without the flash cars :-))))) :thumbsup:
when we went down to england to buy our puppy, our car broke down and i only had limited RAC cover, so basically got left 400 miles from home with no car, 3 kids aged 4 - 10, an 8 week old puppy at 5pm on a sunday night with minus 5 degrees, at an out of town shopping centre in town in yorkshire - now we had to get back to aberdeenshire with £120 in the bank. :'( :'( :'(
we walked to an (unmanned) railway station with no idea what to do or what direction to go. i spoke to a passing lady who offered to take us to a proper train station 30 mins drive away. now as this lady had 2 kids with her, plus my 3, she put her kids in the boot of her car - yes really - and drove us 30 mins up the road to the railway station. she had offered us dinner etc and everything. it was sooo kind, she wouldnt take any money and stood there until we had bought the right tickets to get home. phew.
without this lady i think we might still be there. we got back home about 1am. thankgod
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Aren't some people lovely? Really heart-warming.