Who's been unexpectedly kind to you this year, or at any time?

After a failed tooth extraction, leaving a large part of the tooth behind and in agony, after a few days of no help from the dentist, my DDs’ best friend (DD in the south) took me in the middle of the night to A&E and they gave me the right amount of painkillers.

Living alone, I was so grateful and she works full time with a sick mother and three children. I’m to call on her any time I’m in need.

My Hoover is named 'the Hoover'!

MissA No thats me

Aveline

My Hoover is named 'the Hoover'!

Not even Edgar J?

downtoearth

MissA No thats me

hollysteers ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed’.
Such kindness. Bet you cried with relief from it all.

I know it is only a little thing but have had a lot on my plate recently and was coming back from London, firstly taking the tube during rush hour, was packed like sardines, I was bone tired and my head was whirring with family worries when I felt a tug on my sleeve, a young man was offering me his seat, unheard of usually on the tube, was about to refuse but he had got up and obviously someone else would snaffle it so I sat down and almost cried. Like I say wasn’t much but it meant a lot at that moment.
Also would like to add the kindness of many on here, especially those who hang out on the estrangement forum.
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Yes, a young man a few years ago took my case, and carried it what seemed to be miles in a London station.
I was so grateful I could have cried, because I had hours and hours left on my journey, and wasn't sure where I should be going.

I’m someone who has struggled to make close friends all my life because of bullying when I was young. Although I’ve had counselling which has helped I don’t have a huge number of close friends. This year my closest friend died of cancer and another friend is not around as she has to be hundreds of miles away with a very sick grandchild. She’s been gone since February. So I was feeling a bit lost when I decided to join a yoga class I hadn’t been to before. The women in the group embraced me (literally!) as part of their group and I really feel I’ve made a new group of friends. They’ve been an amazing group and have done me a lot of good.

That's really inspiring,
You were exceptionally brave, and it's so nice to hear of a whole group of women being so welcoming.
It's quite often not the case, so I gather, so you really have struck lucky.

I hope the new year brings you and your friends happy, contented days.

My DH who convinced me to retire early, life without the stress of work has been a blessing

Fellow passengers and staff on the underground who are so kind and helpful without being asked.

I was met with three acts of kindness on the same day a couple of weeks ago. I walk with a crutch as I have back issues as well as arthritis in both knees. I had done the weekly shop plus some Christmas bits so made my way to the checkouts. I was in a lot of pain and feeling very tired too. (I recently had pneumonia and still haven’t fully recovered). The lady behind me asked if I minded if she helped to put my goods on the belt. So first act of kindness. Next the assistant asked me for my bags and she packed up all my shopping. Second act of kindness. Then as I was leaving the store with a very wayward trolley a lady came up to me, asked if she could push the trolley then packed my bags in the boot of my car. Act of kindness number three.

Such kindness, I be was so grateful to those three strangers. I can usually manage but I was having a bad day. I couldn’t thank them enough.

Ages ago, I fell over at the bus stops near our station.
My foot caught on something, and I really hurtled face down onto the floor.

I hurt my knee really badly, and I just lay on the floor crying.

A group of older ladies all came over and literally picked me up, and sat me on a bench, one stabbing my eyes with her hanky, and another opening her water and making me drink some.

When they looked at my poor knee, it was bleeding badly, so a man waiting for his bus came over and held his snowy white hanky on it, to stem the blood.

They were all so kind. I remember crying "I just want my mum!" and one of the ladies said "Ooh, I'll be your mum, love"

I've never forgotten their kindness, and never forgiven my daughter, mum and grandsons, because they laughed like drains when I told them

Just little things show kindness.
The right words said at the right time, a smile, carrying a neighbours shopping, paying some one a compliment, giving up your seat on the train or bus, simply holding the door open with a smile, a phone call or a card to let a friend know you're thinking of them. Etc. Etc.
So many VERY LITTLE things can make a big difference to the day.
I've received many such acts of kindness through the years and I'm grateful for each and every one.

By the way. The woman dabbed my eyes, not stabbed them.
That would have been too much!

I have been subjected to a number of tests this summer before my oncologist would release me. Three days after a PET scan she rang me to tell me it was clear as she knew I was worried. She also apologised for ringing without an appointment.

Also on the same theme when my surgeon discharged me I wrote her a letter thanking her for all she had done for me. She replied with a personal letter thanking me and saying they don't often get handwritten letters of thanks.

Also my odd job man who is always on the end of a phone and can come round at a moment's notice. All he asks for is a bottle of Spanish brandy at Christmas!!

A friend that I've know since 2017 when I first moved here asked for my bank details saying she wants to ''drop a bit of cash in as an appreciation for my friendship to her''.

She's a recovering alcoholic in her 60s so I've never judged her and have always been there for her.

That ''bit'' of cash turned out to be £600.00!

So I went to our local sweet shop and treated myself to a box of Walnut Whips!

Wow!
Oh I've not had a walnut whip for years, and I used to love those.

You've earned every one, though, for being such a staunch ally to your friend.

What filling is in your whips, by the way? The white creamy one or the coffee one?

A kindness shown to my daughter, she was driving in pouring rain with baby in car when she had a tyre blow. She managed to pull into a side street, where she called her sister to fetch baby and her partner to change tyre. He was out in rain trying to undo tyre nut when a gentleman from a nearby house came out to see if he could help. He laid on ground in pouring rain and managed to undo the nut, then helped put new tyre on, he then said goodbye and left. They saw which house he came from and took a card and chocolates round plus a box of dog biscuits for dog that had stood at gate and watched it all

Ummm......

Tammie12

A kindness shown to my daughter, she was driving in pouring rain with baby in car when she had a tyre blow. She managed to pull into a side street, where she called her sister to fetch baby and her partner to change tyre. He was out in rain trying to undo tyre nut when a gentleman from a nearby house came out to see if he could help. He laid on ground in pouring rain and managed to undo the nut, then helped put new tyre on, he then said goodbye and left. They saw which house he came from and took a card and chocolates round plus a box of dog biscuits for dog that had stood at gate and watched it all

There really are some kind people around, and they always just do what's needed, without the need to make a song and dance out of it.

My dad used to fix cars, and I can remember him doing things like that for people, too.

Bill the bodger, he was known as.

The bin men were unexpectedly kind, and one of them followed up by clearing the snow off my windscreen. This was months ago btw, nothing to do with Christmas expectations…

My postman.
In the summer when I felt really ill, would knock, come in through my back door and hand my post to me.

I was struggling with the water tap at the cemetery on Sunday when a kind gentleman asked if he could help and turned the tap on for me.