What's your most amazing experience of generosity by a stranger?

Decades ago, an unknown woman came into the office where my then-fiancée worked, to book her flight home across the ocean. On learning we were about to be married and emigrate to her own home city, she immediately said "come to us"!

A few months later, she and her husband (who hadn't been consulted in the first place) were at the airport to meet us on arrival. We lived with them until we were 'on our feet' in two or three weeks. I'd never known such kindness from a stranger and will never forget it.

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smiler2012 · 61-69

@ffony mine was a few weeks ago nowhere as kind as yours but still kind all the same . i go for a walk daily and get my papers at the same shop i put my money in my jeans pocket . i went in this particular day and i thought i was ten pence short when i got my money out . the woman in the shop said i could give it another time and out of the blue a woman in the queue offered me the money i accepted it and said thank you. she was a stranger and when i got outside i found i had money in my shirt pocket so went back in the shop and gave her the money i owed her and said thank you again

ffony · M

@smiler2012 Good for you.
As kids, my pal & I benefitted from a mistake (sixpence!) made by the lady at a candy store. He bragged to his Ma about it, she chuckled over it talking to my Ma - and guess who got dragged to the store to pay back the sixpence!

smiler2012 · 61-69

@ffony 🤔well you did the right and honest thing

ffony · M

@ffony To be 'honest' - nowadays I would only make that sort of recompense if the amount was non trivial, and/or the cashier would be likely to suffer because of it.