Unexpected lovely moment

Dogs make the world a better place.

It's OK wheniwasyourage I know some perfectly nice people who don't like or are scared of dogs. I don't understand them either!

A long time ago but one of my son's was very scared of dogs after 2 charged at him barking. A dog walker saw him scared and stopped for a long time chatting and encouraging and really helped my son overcome his fear

I used to look after 2 little girls. Picked them up after school with mine. One of the girls was petrified of dogs. We had 3 at the time. So I'd shut them in the kitchen when she was here.

One day I thought I'd try to help her get over this fear. We had a greyhound, lurcher and Jack Russell. So my soppy greyhound came to the rescue. Such a gentle dog. Slowly but surely she started to pat him.

Long story cut short, she eventually was happy to have all 3 dogs pottering around.

This child is now 35 and married with children ... and 2 dogs.

She's always thanking me for allowing her to not be fearful and to love dogs

My 2 DGSs couldn't be more different. Once when out for a walk we saw a giant Newfoundland dog coming towards us. Eldest DGS ran happily up to it and had a lovely pat and cuddle (after asking the owner of course) the other DGS ran away and jumped up on to a bench in fear. Hard to believe they were from the same family. All fine now. They both love cats and have two.

A little girl in the nursery where I work said to me “ aw your going home but will you be coming back tomorrow? When I said yes she threw out her arms and said” give me a hug till tomorrow “ nice to know I was missed!

On the opposite side of the road there was a crocodile of small 5-6 year olds walking in pairs behind their teacher going back to school.

One of them looked very much like one of my grandsons when he was that age and as I walked along I was smiling. The boy caught my eye and smiled back, then as he carried on walking he turned and waved at me.

Of course I waved back, we were both grinning. I have no idea who he was and he didn't know me...but it was a lovely moment.

Aw🥰. that's a lovely one.

On my phone your post preview read 'On the opposite side of the road was a crocodile. . .' so I'm very pleased to see it ended happily .

At least it was the opposite side!

Our flat overlooks the playground of a local school. Often crocodiles of nursery children go past. I always wave and can usually count on several responses even though we're up on the 4th floor. On one golden occasion all of them and the teacher waved back!