What is the nicest thing a stranger has done for you? (r/AskReddit)

what is the nicest thing a stranger has done for you I bought my condo at 27 from a guy I've never met there were a lot of offers way over asking price in a competitive market but I offered what I could I had lost out on many places before over months of searching being outbid by ridiculous cash offers I had no chance of eating I fell in love with this neighborhood and made two other failed offers here earlier so I wrote him a letter just telling my story how hard I tried to save everything I could to buy my first place and make a home and start really establishing myself he ended up taking my offer over much higher bids because he bought this place decades ago when he was a struggling 27 year old trying to establish himself and my letter resonated with him he probably could have made another dollar sign for TK but he wanted to give me the opportunity he had I'm forever grateful I love telling this story as it helped me fall in love with the city I just moved to so here I'm a 23 year old graduate who's just moved to a brand new city for my first real adult job I just finished my first week of work and my colleagues had decided we would go for an after-work drink in the city center as we have half-day Fridays I living in the city center get to the bar first as it was just around the corner from my home as I'm standing at the bar looking up at the drinks menu taking in all the options a chap comes in stands next to me and says backquote ah what a lovely day it is and I respond politely agrea and he carries on making conversation back quote so what brings you to the pub so early to which I explained how I just moved to the city just finished my first weekend about to have my first beer in the city backquote are well then welcome eventually the bomb man comes up to me and asks what I'd like and as I answer the man I just met went back quote oh no I'll get this chaps drink it's on me I then thanked him and respond back quote are it's alright you don't have to back quote no no welcome to the city I just hope the one day when my son has has first beer after his first week someone would do the same for him that small act of kindness from a random stranger welcoming me to a new big scarify city made me know straightaway i was going to like it here and i love it my bathing suits flew off one of those wave machine things on a cruise ship when I was young not down a bit exposing some of my butt off Bush trying to stand keep my boyhood covered and looking for my trunks in a tsunami was tricky a towel hits me in the face thank you kind stranger my Keith dropped out of my pocket on a bus stop and realized only 10-15 minutes after I boarded the bus alighted and took a bus back and found it covertly placed on a Ledge right next to where I seated small action big result Easter Day 2013 car was broken down in a small town between Arizona and Utah alternator was broken was 18 at the time with three other friends a man saw Russell panicking as we were trying to get back to our college town he had been a mechanical something.idk and recognized that we had something wrong with our alternator he spent three hours working on fixing it and only asked us for the money it costs for the new part he needed once he finished we drove two miles and broke down again he had been following us to make sure we were okay for the first few miles and then got a rope and pulled us back to the shop / gas station area he was helping us at he spent another two hours and fixed it perfectly we drove home and came home perfectly throughout all of this him and his girlfriend were bringing us water and buying us pizza for absolutely no other reason than being a good person this man spent his entire Easter Sunday helping a group of poor college kids get their car fixed and back to their college town I fell asleep at the wheel and drove my car into a ditch right at the entrance of my street must have been 1 a.m. this guy was outside on his porch in a white t-shirt rain boots and boxes having a smoke yells over to me if I need help I say I do he says give me a brings out his old toyota 4runner and hitches my car to it pulls my car out in no time never seen him again Thanksgiving Day 2003 I was driving down to my parents on Long Island from Buffalo a seven to eight hour drive as I'm about halfway I get a blow out the tire is just shredded I managed to get the doughnut on and slowly got into the next town most of New York State is just farms and nothing I stopped at every store that would conceivably have a tire but nothing was open I stopped at a police station they told me to get a hotel until tomorrow so I hop back into my car and try to make it to the next town try there that's when my doughnut went flat so I get out and start walking it is 2003 I don't have a cell phone so I knock on the first house I'd confined hoping they'd let me use their phone so I can call my parents the lady who answered the door invited me in let me use her phone offered me food and there to my complete shock called her friend who owned a used car dealership add them tow my car to the dealership and put on a new tire free of charge I went from completely missing Thanksgiving and having to spend the night in some shitty hotel outside Binghampton to being back on my way within two hours I'll never forget that lady I posted this before but it's seriously one of the most wholesome moments of my life in 1990 I was 19 years old driving cross County by myself and all I have is $63 and a Texaco card I'm close to mt1 nights somewhere in our were and pull up to a Texaco station about five minutes after they closed I was trying to only use my Texaco card and conserve what little cash I had the person working the station wouldn't open to give me gas so I decide that I'll just put all my clothes on it was December and about 11 degrees and sleep in my car until they opened in the a.m. about 2:00 a.m. I hear a tap on the window and I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the car it was the sheriff phooey luck I explained what was going on here an my ID to make sure I didn't have warrants or anything and then ominously states that's not how we do things around here oMG I was terrified how do you do things around here what's going to happen to me apparently he was pissed that the guide the gas station left me there so he calls the owner of the gas station makes him come down in the middle of the night and fill my gas tank asterisk forf ree asterisk then the sheriff calls his wife let her know what's going on and she tells him to bring me over to their place missus sheriff proceeds to feed me let me take a shower and sleep there until the next morning then she feeds me again packs me a lunch gives me twenty dollars in cash and sends me on my way it was seriously one of the most wholesome things that has ever happened to me my fuel pump died 100 miles from home he helped me get my truck out of the road then drove me to two auto parts stores to get what I needed to fix it stuck around to get additional tools needed along the way and it was pouring for my truck I had to also drop the skid plate and drop my fuel tank dropped my wallet in a mall parking lot some lady found it and mailed it back to me with a nice letter all the money was still in it I felt like a Dark Souls character who reversed Halloween at a bonfire once I was carrying my sobbing infant in the grocery store while waiting in line to check out I was super overwhelmed it was my first trip out after my son was born and a kind older man said one day you're going to look back on this with happy memories and even miss these moments he then insisted that I cut in front of him in line and bought all of my groceries ma'am that made a huge impact on me what a wonderful man going through the line at Aldi and I had a bunch of stuff for wick cheese milk yogurt cereal and juice for my pregnant with twins girlfriend find out Aldi doesn't participate in the wig program and oh [ __ ] I'm broke otherwise I apologize and ask if they could restock it for me and out of nowhere this nice lady says she can cover it I say well thank you but not needed as I can go to Walmart down the road she insists tells me congratulations and best wishes for the babies she really restored a lot of my faith in humanity that day when I bought my house I was the lowest bidder my agent told me that I probably needed to bid higher because locally it's a seller's market and it wouldn't compete enough I bid it anyway the seller found out that I was buying it to live it and sold it to me they were so sweet they also paid for a few months of lawn care because they thought I wouldn't have the tools to get it and that buying a house has a lot of extra expenses one of her brothers had won a few dozen million dollars from the lottery and had given her a very nice home that they were moving to they dropped off a really beautiful plant with a beautiful card a year after the purchase and sent me a Christmas card as well there were such lovely wonderful people you have a message from the nice man like and subscribed to possibly smile [Music]

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2019