What acts of kindness have you experienced?

Aneeda72

Aneeda72

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My mother wanted to go to a fashion show in Santa Monica, we lived, in different places in Santa Ana. She bought the tickets, we drove. My daughter was 7. My daughter had hip problems and wore cable spinner braces on her legs. These braces had a thick belt, that went around her waist.

The thick brown cables attached to the belt and then to brown high top lace up ugly shoes. The braces widen her stance and turned her feet outward. Teased and bullied at school, sad and angry at me, she had to wear this get up 24/7 for a year.

We went to the luncheon and fashion show. Beautiful models. I saw tears running down my daughters face. She felt so ugly. I took her to the bathroom to clean her up. One of the models just came out of a stall. Blonde hair, blue eyes, legs to die for. She looked at my daughter. Made a point of looking at her shoes and her braces.

And said, “you know, when I was your age, I had those very same braces. Look at me now.” She bent over, gave my daughter a big hug, and left. 😀

Kindness doesn’t cost anything, but can mean more than a million dollars. What kindness have you experienced?
 

RiverM55 said:
That's right. It's also a shame it's not practiced more often.
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I try to always complement someone when I go out, especially a teenager. I think teenagers are criticized far too much. So I’ll say I love your purple hair, your tattoo, your necklace cause there is always something to love about everybody. The ones who are overly happy and grateful for a complement, those are the ones that need kindness the most.
 

A couple of months ago, we were at the casino, and they had a drawing, and announced my name. When I went up to the stage, I had a choice of some nice new tools to choose from, and I chose a nice small Craftsman air compressor. It only weighed about 30 pounds, but was a bit awkward to carry. As I was making my way to the car, a younger guy saw me, and asked if he could carry it for me....I said sure. He carried the box nicely, and put it in the car trunk. I thanked him, and offered to buy him a cup of coffee, but he said "no thanks...just happy to help". People like that are becoming increasingly rare.
 
When we were snowed in a year and a half ago with trees down all over the driveway - something that is an once every 50 year event here - some of the neighbors we didn't know came in and cut some of the trees that were precariously hanging at angles over the driveway. The guy across the street brought his large tractor over and plowed a lot of the snow out of the way. That way it melted faster.
 
I have a 6 ft. step ladder and an 8 ft. step ladder, but the light bulbs on the ceiling of my garage need a 10 ft. in order for me to replace them. My neighbor has a 10 ft. and knows that I have balance issues these days. The last time I asked to borrow his ladder, he came over and changed the bulbs for me.

It is these little things that make a big difference sometimes.
 
After I lost my husband, the family next door "adopted" me and were so kind. They were always doing nice things for me (edging my sidewalk, trimming my bushes, etc.) including cutting down a dead tree in my backyard that I had been getting estimates on ($1,000-$3,000).

One night I woke up and saw my neighbor in my backyard with ballbat in hand. He had seen someone jump my fence and he was patrolling the yard.
 
Last year, I experienced some kind words from someone who didn't understand what made the words so kind.
I went shopping & parked very close to one of those big poles. That only allowed my door to open a few inches. I opened the door & easily squeezed out. Then I heard someone laughing her head off. I looked up & saw an elderly lady who stopped & was watching me the whole time. She probably watched me park & wanted to see how I would manage to get out.
She said, "I can't believe you were able to get out of your car. You're lucky you're skinny."
I laughed & said, "Thank you."
She didn't know why I appreciated that because she didn't know my former size - 405 lbs.
 
I've reached out to a musician I like every once in a while over the years thanking him for his music and sharing how one of his songs really brightened my day or touched me in some way. The last time I reached out he asked for my email address and then recorded a solo version of one of his songs at home and sent it to me.
 
I tried to fit my new lawnmower folded down into its box into the "trunk" of a VW Beetle.

Wasn't my brightest moment.:oops:

Another customer with a pickup offered to put it on the bed of his pickup and follow me home. Told him that it was nine miles to my house. He said "No matter."

When we got home, I offered to pay him but he said to help someone else in need. I think that the expression today is "Pay it forward."
 
Damaged Goods said:
I tried to fit my new lawnmower folded down into its box into the "trunk" of a VW Beetle.

Wasn't my brightest moment.:oops:

Another customer with a pickup offered to put it on the bed of his pickup and follow me home. Told him that it was nine miles to my house. He said "No matter."

When we got home, I offered to pay him but he said to help someone else in need. I think that the expression today is "Pay it forward."
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If we all practiced "pay it forward" the world would be a much better place. One of my teachers said, "If all men mended a man, all men would be mended." Not meant to be sexist.
 
My neighbor who lives downstairs and has become a friend, brings me food items she gets from the food pantry or food give aways in our area. I don't go to those because they usually have mostly high carb food. She gives me the eggs she gets because she doesn't like eggs. Last week she gave me coupons for $8. worth of produce at the farmer's market.

Another neighbor across the hall, leaves their newspapers after they have read them in the basket outside my door for Rabbit's cage.

I have experienced a lot of kindness from many people since I moved here two years ago.
 
When I was single, the first winter after purchasing my house, we had a record-breaking snowfall for that day in the history of collecting weather data. My little snow blower wouldn't start, so my neighbor cleared all my sidewalk and walk ways.

There was a canine patrol officer who lived across the street from me. He couldn't get his patrol car out of the snow drifts during that same storm, so he called in for a city tow truck to meet him on the main street that was three blocks away and had been plowed, and we neighbors got together, dug him out, and pushed his car up to that street to meet the tow truck. I wish police were still treated that way today.

That same officer, John, would have his buddies (also canine patrol), park in front of my house if I wasn't home to keep things safe. Nothing like a huge German Shepherd to change the mind of a would be robber. :)

Tony
 
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