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E mailed a scaffold firm to see if I could buy an old 3m length of tube to make a firemans pole for the play house I'm building for the kids, to be honest i did not have high hopes of a response. The reply was of course you can, dont worry about paying for one you can have it free.
Anyone else been the receipient of a random act of kindness?
My mate parked his liveried sparky van on my road and someone up the street popped down (on a Sunday) to enquire about an electrical fault in their house.
He spent about 40 mins sorting it out for them, when it came to payment he just asked them to pass on the act of kindness.
Bloody hippies, he's currently doing some 'work' for someone he hardly knows in Gozo, where they're letting him stay for free, pretty much cos he was nice.
"Firemans" pole aye? "Playhouse" you say?
scruff as I typed I just knew ther would be one who reponded in such manner, you win the prize. Good job I did not make mention of sliding down the firemans pole
I moved my car at the weekend so's a neighbour could get an upright piano out of a van
He was a bit close to my car 🙂
Someone heavily parked their 4x4 onto the front of a Merc at the weekend. The 60-something respectable woman got out, looked around and gingerly jumped back in and drove off. She didn't notice me stood infront of her watching her every move.
One one fine day in Manchester I gave my umbrella to a lady whose own decrepit version had broke while crossing the windy road.
Completely selfless and I never mention it to anyone...
I went into a chippy the other night to buy some chips. it was very late, only a few minutes from closing time. They guy behind the counter gave me my chips for free as he said he was just about to chuck them out anyway!
Local plumber came round to rewire our aging boiler as the self-ignitor failed. "add it on to the next bill" he says.
That was 2 years ago and we've not needed him back since. But I'll make sure we pay him when we do.
Going the other way, who's been a good samaritan?
I walked a toe-amputee home from town the other night as he was struggling to balance - I found him lying on the pavement. Took 45 mins to get 300 yards.
Slightly longer story.
A few days before Christmas a couple of years ago we recieved a call out of the blue from a guy who found a package address to us in the gutter on the roadside. We later found out it had fallen out of a couriers van. There was no sender details and we are ex directory. Luckily I have quite an unusual surname so he phoned around the few numbers who are listed until he found my Dad! We spoke to the guy and it he had found a bespoke print we had ordered like this:
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I called the courier company and they were not interested. The weather at the time was atrocious with deep snow and we didn't want to ask him to go out an post it again so we spoke to the company that made it. The owner then went round to the guys house, gave him a similar print as a gesture of thanks then drove 50 miles, in the snow, to get the the courier dept before the 10pm Christmas cut off to ensure we got the print before Christmas (even though we said this wasn't necessary). She then refunded the entire cost to us for the inconvenience!
It cost me a bunch of flowers to the owner!
I always pay for the car behind me at the Dartford tunnel mainly because I like looking in the rear view mirror at the looks of abject confusion between driver and toll booth attendant.
Just make sure its not a lorry behind you...
I gave away my spare tube to a bloke with a flat tyre, and helped a girl re-attach her dynamo light so she could ride her bike home. I'm a regular good samaritan me.
I always pay for the car behind me at the Dartford tunnel mainly because I like looking in the rear view mirror at the looks of abject confusion between driver and toll booth attendant.
That's brilliant!
Not sure it counts though as your motives are a bit malavolent.
While at school, a man loitering by the school gates gave me some brown powder, a syringe, a burnt spoon and clear instructions on intravenous delivery.
I've never looked back. I can't imagine how my life would be without its magic, life-enhancing qualities. Now that's kindness!
Hora - I don't doubt you've been put forward repeatedly already, but just in case you haven't:
[url= http://www.prideofbritain.com/contentPages/forms/Nomination.aspx ]Lets make this happen folks![/url]
On here a couple of months ago a fella ( who i think is now banned! ) was after a vernier, i had a spare so offered it to him for the cost of postage, he got back to me and offered £20 to my fave charity so i binned off the postal cost. not my act by the way but his as he had no reason to do that which i was impressed with!. Nice bit of Karma to him ( even though hes banned!) 🙂
I bought some lights from smudge last year. The battery failed, so I sent it in to be fixed. It didn't arrive, so smudge sent me a new battery FOC.
More than that, I submitted a lost parcel claim through Royal Mail and they *eventually* paid up. WHen I asked for smudge's details to send the money on he refused and insisted I make a charitable donation. £15 each for Help for Heroes, my local Air Ambulance and my local MRT.
On a similar note, we went to Revolution at the Manchester Velodrome last season when IHN offered us "spare" tickets at cost price - he'd bought season tickets but upgraded to the VIP area for the first round. As he hadn't checked his diary properly when buying the season tickets, he was unable to make the next two rounds either so we got to use the season tickets in return for a (sizable) charity donation.
Hora - I don't doubt you've been put forward repeatedly already, but just in case you haven't:Lets make this happen folks!
Brilliant!
in association with Daily Mail, Lidl... 😆
Frank sinatra... Meganclaire per chance?
had a bike stolen a few months ago...tried to claim on the insurance and was told it would not be covered to the full amount...i mentioned this on STW on a forum thread started by someone else and another user namely Dannybgoode saw my post and decided to help me out...he kindly looked at the insurance cover and penned a nice letter which i sent to the insurance company stating that they had mis-sold the insurance to me...a week later the insurance company contacted me to admit they were in the wrong and made a full payment and paid me compensation as well... 😀
my most recent good deed was last week when dropping off the boy at his school...one of the teachers had opened a gate and had pull the little pole that goes into the ground up all the way and when it dropped it missed its guide hole and was now jammed...i offered to free it, and so spent the next 5 minutes pulling it back up until it was free....to my sufferance when the pole finally came free my elbow flew back and whacked into the top of the gate...right on the funny bone!!...it's still swollen and bruised... 😯
dannybgoode is a nice guy - but he's just so confused about biscuits
There was a guy on here a while back who helped make/made a large balance bike for someone (might have been someone's autistic son). Can't remember the ins and outs of it, but people offered donations of various bike parts and there was some pics of the final thing.
Was a thoroughly heart-warming thread.
gonzy - glad to hear the cheque turned up. Wills till have to meet up for a ride some time. Been mad busy my end.
@OWG - **** off 😉
Cheers
Danny B
And for my own offering - went to Chinese State Circus when it was in town (would recommend it to anyone) and as we were queuing for tickets this lady said she worked in a shop where they had put posters up so had a couple of freebies spare that we could have.
Wouldn't take money for them...
Cheers
Danny B
Emailed guys in USA that make stands for laptops, needed a new insert for my new (thinner) laptop. Amazon didn't seem to stock them. Asked them for name of UK distributor - they didn't have any (for the insert) and simply sent me a new one FOC from States... which was nice of them.
danny - its been mad at this end too...but i'll let you know when the next ride is planned down your way so you can join up with us
Was in a bit of a rush to pick up a child from school in a car last week when a woman knocks on my window at a roundabout looking distressed and saying she was late picking up her kids from somewhere else and can I give her a lift. Chance to reduce someone's stress - has to be done. The kid I was going to pick up could play for 15mins longer and everyone wins
Only this week, Burt from here answered my appeal for a st hope bb tool.
Not only did he send it super fast, he refused payment for postage (£3) and said I could just keep the tool for, stick a few quid the way of charity, which of course I did.
Fantastic & Top marks for stw goodness that does exist 😀
Stopped the car to fix a roadies chain as he was doing the postie scoot up the pavement .
Chuffed to bits he was as hed had an earful from his misses when he rang to ask for a pick up.
Turned the forks round on a Halfrauds special that was outside my loacal Blocbuster whilst the guy chose a DVD." It rode really nicely, I never knew " was his comment..........
Few months back I took my lad for a ride and we ended up in the café mid ride - I'm teaching him proper!
Ordered the food, food put on tray, went to pay - HAD LEFT MY MONEY AT HOME! 😯 😳
Absolutely mortified, wanted the ground to swallow me up.
The lady behind me dug in her rucksack for her emergency fiver and paid for my lad's food and drink, refused my offer to get it back to her.
Mother Teresa has nothing on that kind lady,
A friend of my mums is the wife and mother of two ambulance drivers. Whenever they get called out to someone who lives alone she goes to visit them when they get out of hospital to make sure they're ok.
Traveling in oz a few years ago and a bloke flags us down, he's meeting his wife and children at a holiday cottage and has been cycling for days. poor guy was on his last legs and it was getting dark so we slung him and the bike in the back of the camper and drove him there. in return he offered us a bed for the night but we made do with a brew and a biscuit as we were tight for time.
Oops. I waited for the driver to return. Saying that its not kindness, its vengeful duty 😈
Ticketmaster sent me my tickets along with someone else's, after trying to get hold of TM and failing i found the guys phone no and posted them off to him so he didn't miss the gig.
Oh and we were at the theatre last week and a woman with her elderley mother and walking frame turned up at the same time as us at our seats. they were at the wrong side of the theatre and looked stressed!,
solution - swop tickets, theirs were worse but i couldn't see her go round the other side they'd never have made it in time!
I love Karma me!
Probably my most spontaneous act was on leaving B&Q one wet winter evening and spotting an African guy struggling up the road with a load of awkward household stuff like an ironing board that he'd just bought. Stopped the car, loaded him and his stuff in and drove him back to his flat, a good mile away.
My karmic reward for a life of goodness was finding a new stolen carbon bike dumped in a river, which became mine a month later courtesy of the Police. I've had four good years of use out of it.
Well thought I'd boost my own karma bank today.
Sold my Garmin Forerunner 305 and have bought an Edge 500. As they have the same heart rate monitor strap / module bit I have sent the buyer the nice clean new one that came with the Edge and kept the one from my 305 which has been sweated on by me a fair few times!
I even threw in the bike mount for it...
Cheers
Danny B
A few years ago I was heading to a concert at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, it had been sometime since I was on an Edinburgh bus and didn't realise it was an exact fare jobby. I only had £20 notes... Anyway about 3nanoseconds before the driver hurled me off a kind lady paid my fare and I got to the concert on time. I put the fare in the charidee box in the pub later.
Stopped mid lap (one mile in) to fix a snapped chain for someone at mayhem last weekend.
The bloke didn't have a clue what to do, or any tools and was about to start walking the rest of the lap to the changeover.
Slightly off topic but Random Acts if Kindness is s very good album by Ed Solo & Skool of Thought.
Whilst on a Euro road trip, me and 3 mates were sat on a high street somewhere in Europe having bread and cheese for lunch when a lady presented us with a very posh boxed cake, and then just walked off into the ether...
On a winters morning I gave a waking homeless person a nice warm chai tea latte...
And so the cycle continues...
Last winter.after a long and late day at work, too tired to do dinner so popped up the chippy just before closing. I walked in to be greeted by the biggest pile of wrapped chip suppers ever - balanced on the hot display right up to the ceiling (turns out over 40 portions). They had a bulk order for a do at the local community hall.
Anyway I help them load their little van, which then refuses to start! By this time they are panicing somewhat (being Iranian this involved a lot of arm waving and wailing too) so I then help push the van down the road. It takes about half a mile to get the bloody thing going but finally they are off!
Anyway I head back to the shop with the old man, who kindly gave me everything left in the cabinet - piles of chips, pea fritters, sausages, fish - as he'd had enough and wanted to go home. And all free! Quite a feast!