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Have you ever helped a complete stranger??

How???
Beebo · M
In a way I have. I don't do this too often, but I have paid for a complete stranger their meal at a restaurant and walked out. I try to target the ones that look like they don't have much money.
@Beebo kudos to you!
LyricalOne · F
@Beebo That’s really lovely.
SW-User
Yes a few times. I stopped someone from killing herself. That was the most memorable one.
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@thinkbigaboutlife Thanks😊 She was pregnant at the time and didn't know it. That was 2 lives.
:O So then I guess you kept in contact with her to know this?
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@thinkbigaboutlife I ran into her a couple years ago and that's when I realized that she had a baby. She ran up to me and started crying and thanking me. She told me I saved her life and her baby.
Cowboybob · M
Yep. Whenever I’m at the corner 7-11 I will buy coffee and a sandwich for the homeless lady that hangs out there
Sarah123 · F
called an ambulance for a drunk person that was propably would have frozen to death otherwise
Tryingtomoveforward · 36-40, M
Yes many times. I volunteer for a First Aid organisation. So many many times!!!
SW-User
Yes. Many times. I once got off the train with an elderly lady to be sure she caught her next connection.
Lilarianna · 26-30, F
@SW-User that's such a lovely thing to do!
SW-User
@Lilarianna Thank you. She was really scared.
multiversality · 56-60, F
One Christmas Eve, my husband and I bought something for everyone who still had a card on the mall's charity gift tree. I think it was 30 or 40 things. Things like "warm gloves for outdoor work" and "a cuddly stuffed animal for a 6-month-old". My favorite was the request for a bicycle for a ten-year-old. We blew everything we had left in our bank account and had to buy groceries that week on a credit card, but it felt good knowing those people weren't going to have a giftless Christmas.
ChefBrian · 41-45, M
I also once walked out of a restaurant in NYC with leftovers and some guy who was begging for food.. I gave him what I had left.
ChefBrian · 41-45, M
Well.. I think I did.
I was hanging out with some girls at college at a festival, and some guy came up crying that he needed money for a train ticket to see his sick daughter. The girls and I all felt bad for him. Part of me thought he wanted money for drugs. He assured me his story was true. I walked him to the train station, bought him a ticket and put him on the train to see his sick daughter.
He seemed surprised by the gesture. The way he acted made me think he was possibly lying.. but he got where he said he wanted to go.
Peppa · 31-35, F
Carried someone's shopping, lift a pram down the stairs, wiped they're face when they cried, got a person a plaster. And so on
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Pulled a child out a swimming pool that was in difficulty.
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TechniCoIorBroccoli · 46-50, F
More tomes than I can remember
4meAndyou · F
I always hold doors for people with strollers or for the elderly with walkers or wheelchairs....but on a daily basis I build family trees on a free website for families to whom I am not even related. I am reasonably good at researching and building trees, and I am able to fix, correct, fill in, connect and complete with some ease....so if I see a tree that is a mess of incomplete information, I will process the entire tree. I always think to myself that I am bringing people together with their own history. So often I will see a family of ten brothers and sisters....and most of their descendants only know their great great grandparents first names...and don't know any of their great-great-aunts and uncles.
Jibby · 56-60, C
In miserable weather I have given few people rides just pulling over and asking. On most occasions a minority that probably didn't stand a chance
rymn22 · 26-30, F
helped a lesbian couple when they couldn't get a room to stay by allowing them space in my room !!! (PS : i got a nice reward for that :) :) :P )
Lilarianna · 26-30, F
@rymn22 what was your reward? 🤔
Dusty101 · F
Yes. I saw a lady fall over.. and her shopping went everywhere.. so I stopped the car and went out to help her..
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I hold the door open if that counts. Lol.
@SW-User in my part of the world, it's common to hold the door, lol, so from my perspective, I would say it doesn't count!
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@thinkbigaboutlife In my part it’s common too.
Ya know, just random acts of kindness.
SW-User
Helped out cooking at a food bank cafe..
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
Yes I've helped change flat tires
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RemovedUsername663019 · 26-30, M
Yep, last Christmas eve I was at a gas station 2 different people came in outta fuel stranded and a cop showed up he took one I took the other I did it for the price of fuel I luckily had a 5 gallon can in the trunk filled for such occasions, I was happy to do it!
ProThrall · 31-35, F
many times
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Yup sometimes, if I can do it, I will definitely do it. It gives some joy to be kind for someone in need.
gandi · 46-50, M
yes I bougth food to a homeless guy and his dog too
many times as i do a lot of 1st aid in my job
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SW-User
Pulled them out of the ditch
Burrman · 56-60, M
Everyday for the past 30 years
SW-User
Numerous times.
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Frequently. Too many to list, but here is one. One time this couple was waiting out under the eve of a restaurant. It had started a downpour while we were inside. I asked if they had a ride and they said they had walked. So I offered to drive them home, as it was about a mile in a heavy thunderstorm.

 
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