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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
I can't single out just one.
The big, slow, held-back two years Native American in elementary school who stepped in front of me when another kid challenged me to a fight, and said "you want to fight, you fight me". When asked why he did it, he said "because you're the only one here who has been nice to me".
The time I stupidly showed up drunk for my job as a night desk clerk in a motel while a college student, and a long-term resident took me to his room to sleep it off, took over my shift, and pled with the manager not to fire me. When asked why, he said "because you have done so many extra little things for me while I have been here".
The skiing & fishing resort owner in the middle of nowhere in Norway who said "you look lost" when I got off the train, explained it was a mail drop stop only and the train stop I wanted was still a few kilometers ahead and there wasn't another train until night, took me to his resort, showed me around, and returned me to catch the evening train.
The casual woman friend who agreed to fill in as my date for my boss's masquerade party on a day's notice, even though she lived 90 miles away and most women would have been insulted at being second (or worse) choice. We were married a month later. For 43 years.
I'll stop there. She wins, hands down.
The big, slow, held-back two years Native American in elementary school who stepped in front of me when another kid challenged me to a fight, and said "you want to fight, you fight me". When asked why he did it, he said "because you're the only one here who has been nice to me".
The time I stupidly showed up drunk for my job as a night desk clerk in a motel while a college student, and a long-term resident took me to his room to sleep it off, took over my shift, and pled with the manager not to fire me. When asked why, he said "because you have done so many extra little things for me while I have been here".
The skiing & fishing resort owner in the middle of nowhere in Norway who said "you look lost" when I got off the train, explained it was a mail drop stop only and the train stop I wanted was still a few kilometers ahead and there wasn't another train until night, took me to his resort, showed me around, and returned me to catch the evening train.
The casual woman friend who agreed to fill in as my date for my boss's masquerade party on a day's notice, even though she lived 90 miles away and most women would have been insulted at being second (or worse) choice. We were married a month later. For 43 years.
I'll stop there. She wins, hands down.