Save our soles!
I was waiting for a train at the local station when a woman on the platform near me was alternately kicking her legs out as if shaking off cramps or something. As she kicked one leg forward her shoe came off and landed between the tracks next to the platform.
Without a word I took out my earphones dropped my backpack, jumped down onto the tracks, retrieved her shoe and gave it back to her receiving a rather stunned "thank you so much" for my trouble. I then put my earphones back in, picked up my backpack and carried on waiting for the train as if nothing happened.
I couldn't do it now since the station is now manned and, no doubt, here are proper health and safety procedures for this kind of thing.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 9 May 2013, 23:42, Reply)