Thread: There are decent people still in this world.

Originally Posted by bacicat

a total stranger in the next seat - hearing her side of the conversation, handed her $20 and told her she could use that to top her card up - which she has. She was blown away by this.

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Must have been a Qld. tourist, Bob

Things like this are so nice that make your day
Another thing that make me happy is when I can close a deal by a hand shake and like the old timers said "is set in concrete"
We need more news like yours every day

There is at least one decent person in the north of England too.

SWMBO and I had just finished an eight day campervan trip around Scotland and had not had any opportunity do download our numerous photos to some other form of storage.

When we were dropped off at the Derby railway station to return to London, it was raining (surprise, surprise), so it was a bit rushed getting out of the vehicle with our luggage, into the railway station and then out of the doorway of the station.

After a couple of minutes as we sat having a cup of coffee, I realised, the camera wasn't with our other luggage. I knew immediately what I had done. I had sat the suitcase down just inside the door with the camera sitting on one of them. In my rush to pick them up to get out of the doorway, I had let the camera fall to the floor without noticing.

I went back to the doorway and asked a couple of people standing there if they had seen a camera on the floor. They hadn't, but they directed me to the lost property office.

The staff asked me the model of the camera and asked me to describe a couple of the most recent photos and I had my camera back. More importantly, I hadn't lost my photos of what was for me a trip of a lifetime.

Maybe not as inconvenient as being stuck somewhere without money and no way of getting any, but I was very grateful that whoever picked up the camera had done the right thing.

I live din Derby for five years - three as a student and the last two as a taxpaying member of society, working at Egg, the Internet Bank.

I always found people of Derby to be community minded and by and large, people who do the right thing. It's a small town mindset in a city.

I've spent many an hour waiting in the rain at that station and I'm very glad to hear that the person who found your camera handed it in. Same happened to me in Hong Kong during the Sevens.

There are nice people out there, it's wonderful to hear these stories.

That is nice to hear, what a good experience for your daughter, yourself, and us. Random acts of kindness must happen daily everywhere. But you just don't hear of them often.

Don't forget there is reward for doing the act yourself. But I have found it changes over time or depending on the deed.
Be good to hear how others feel, but I find because the reaction of the receiver is so genuine it makes me feel awkward. You don't normally get someone thanking you a dozen times in 30 seconds; with genuine intent, and so happy that your a random meeting. It's a strange human interaction.

Perhaps why it's not mentioned that often.

Maybe person doing the deed doesn't wish to "big note" themselves. Or perhaps can't quite deal with "I did something nice" and be told so by a complete stranger for doing so. Maybe people are to bust with there own lives.
I'm finding as the older I get the more willing I am to help strangers for nothing. More comfortable with that awkward feeling, and willing to be the receiver of the happiness knowing I helped another.

Perhaps it's just the journey of life as well.