The nicest thing someone's ever done for meIn amongst all the tales of bitterness and poo, we occasionally get fluffy stories that bring a small tear to our internet-jaded eyes.
In celebration of this, what is the nicest thing someone's done for you? Whether you thoroughly deserved it or it came out of the blue, tell us of heartwarming, selfless acts by others.
Failing that, what nice things have you done for other people, whether they liked it or not?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 16:14)
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I'm sure there are better ones, but this is all I can think of for nowLast year, one of my best friends asked me to be her maid of honour. I was delighted to, and set about doing all the dress stuff and supportiveness duties it was in my remit to do.
Then I broke up with my boyfriend.
We had been together 5 years, and though it was a long time coming and an amicable mutual agreement, it wasn't the best news on top of a huge work project. And I had only just started planning the hen weekend, putting together spreadsheets of attendance, sourcing a cottage, compiling tickets for events, looking for restaurants.... Having to then plan the extraction of a relationship containing five years' worth of accumulating homewares was just too much and I couldn't do it. The mere thought of it put me into further tears.
Enter the heroine of the piece.
One of my mates best friends, she asked me to email her what I had, told me not to worry, and did EVERYTHING. We had an amazing time, tackiness carefully removed from anything except where appropriate, and it was all smoothly done.
Were it not for her, I would have screwed it up, and our friend would've had a lousy time. As it was, it was brilliant. And I hardly knew her at all.
I bought her a £70 handbag to show her how grateful I was once it had all died down. And to see the look on her face.
She is ACE.
(, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 15:34, Reply)
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