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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A quiet night out in EdinburghQuite a few years back now, myself and a mate went out for a few midweek pints. Nothing heavy, just catching up over a few beers.
Anyway, time to head off to the west end to catch our respective buses home, but on the way we saw an old man, the worse for wear, fall over just in front of us.
We ran over and helped him up. He appeared to be quite drunk and dishevelled, so we assumed - wrongly we were to learn - that he was homeless.
He managed to slur to us that he lived just around the corner. We helped him along the street and into an grand old block of flats - typical Edinburgh new town with big heavy oak door and wrought iron railing etc.
We helped him up the 3 floors to his flat, fished out his keys, and took him inside.
The flat was amazing. Beautiful big rooms, high ceilings, spectacular views, top of the range telly, hi-fi, and other assorted gadgets. How could I guy looking like *this* live in a place like *this*? How could he even walk up 3 flights of stairs to get to it without help?
Anyway, by now he was on the settee, fast asleep, so we locked the door behind us and put the keys through the letter box.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to big myself up here, but neither of us wanted to think about what would have happened if that old fella had fallen down in front of the wrong pair of guys with a few pints in them.
(, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 15:59, Reply)
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