Hey Pandas, What Was One Time A Stranger Was Kind To You Unexpectedly? (Closed)

Was outside, by my own when suddenly my blood pressure depleted to the point of almost passing out. Many people passing by, not paying any attention of my almost unconditional self. A homeless man approached, asked me if I was okay, and when I told him my problem he rushed to a store, to buy me a coke and then stood nearby (I guess he was trying to stay some distance to not make feel "uncomfortable" but still was near just in case). Some minutes later I was feeling so much better, all thanks to him. Offered some money and refused it, even refused to get back the money he spent on the coke.

Long story short, for the next couple weeks whenever I passed by that spot, I shared some tacos with him and some nice stories. Then he moved to a shelter and lost contact, but I'll be forever grateful for that uninterested act of kindness

I remember one ocassion very fondly: Several years ago while travelling in the countryside I stopped at a very cozy roadside restaurant. I asked if they accepted cards and the owner told me they did. I was hungry, so I ordered a big meal and several refills of coffee.
When it was time to pay the owner told me they actually did not accept card and that the meal was free. I was stunned. The owner then told me: "if I have told you we do not accept cards you would have driven on. There isn't another restaurant in several miles, just a couple of stores. You would have gone hungry and I would have lost a customer." Needless to say, I stopped there with cash when I returned and I have done that ever since. The place is still there, and always packing.

Just people being nice to me on bored panda ☺️

Not really a stranger, but I will tell the story anyway.
Growing up, my family didn't have much, but we always had enough. A lot of times we would even give food to others who needed it more. When I was 12 I would always take whatever money I had and bought some food, I would give the food to homeless people on the street. I talked to some of them but it was mostly small talk. One day I ended up having to walk home alone and it was starting to get dark. Keep in mind I was 12 and definitely couldn't pass for over 14. This creep came up to me and was really touchy. He looked about 50. He kept telling me how pretty I was and that he wanted to have sex with me. I tried to walk away but he grabbed me. A few of the guys I gave food to saw and chased him off. A lady I gave food to even walked me home. These were people who barely knew me. Moral of the story, bad deeds catch up to you, but so do good ones.

I was at the zoo with my 3yo daughter. She loves feeding the animals, but we were only allowed to feed them the zoo’s food.
So we were at the birds and there was this machine that would give out bird food for a €1 coin. I grabbed my wallet looking for a euro, but had none. My girl was disappointed.
This older lady overheard everything, took her wallet out and gave us a euro. We thanked her excitingly and I offered her my other coins but she declined saying: if that makes her happy, I’ll gladly give it to her.
Such a small gesture, but it somehow surprised me.

I was in London and tripped and fell in the middle of a busy street. Blood was dripping down my leg when I finally managed to stand. I hobbled to the sidewalk. A woman came out of her shop with wet paper towels. A man went into the neighboring pharmacy, and came back out with a box of bandages. He helped me clean up and put some of the bandages on my cuts and scrapes, then handed me the box of remaining bandages. So very unexpected, but so nice and helpful!

When my kids were really little (like 3 and 4), I had just broke up with their dad and was trying to work and make things work out. It was almost Christmas, and I had just enough money to buy my girls a couple presents from goodwill (2nd hand store if you didn't know). Mostly it was going to be clothes, when you are poor you get clothes for birthdays/Christmas. Thank God I have girly girls who are happy to get clothes. Anyway, I was working in a gas station at the time and one of my customers (I guess not really a stranger, but definitely not someone I was real familiar with) gave me twenty bucks for Christmas. I tried to refuse it but he just walked away. Because he gave me that, I was able to get my kids a Christmas tree that year. It was just a cheap used one from goodwill, but we had a tree. I thought we weren't going to have one. I cries and cried. Because of him I was able to give my children a somewhat normal Christmas.

Travelling from Sydney to Brisbane via bus. I was penniless and hungry. At a stopover, a kind lady bought me some food. Ty kind lady.

I was at a children's museum with my infant and two year old. We were in the little affiliated cafe and my baby was crying and fussy. My toddler wanted things and needed help. And all in all it was just messy, like it is with young kids and your getting slightly flustered. We did fine and for through it but when I went to pay the bill they said it was already paid. A guy at the bar had paid and left a message I was doing great as a mother. I felt so seen and uplifted that someone did not see it as messy or annoying but saw the struggle and acknowledged.

Coming back someone accidentally took my backpack from the plane's overhead locker and left theirs instead. My guardian angel was working overtime that day because I kept my passport and phone in the seat pocket in front of me but I was still stranded without any money/bank cards. I'm forever grateful for the bus driver letting me ride home from airport for free. I keep £20 note on me in case I see that man again as a thank you 🙏 (I take that bus route quite frequently)

When I needed to share something bad that happened to me and the only people that would listen were two very kind people here on bored panda that asked me about it and listened. It helped me a lot.

I’m telling this for my mom. Me and my sister, around 4 and 6 or something like that, had vomited all night the past night. We were getting on an airplane with my mom and little baby brother, who was cry like crazy and there was nothing she could do about it. Little vomited, and hit the bag for one, and my mom was too busy she didn’t even notice. A random older lady helped little me get to the bathroom, and clean up. That was one act of kindness I don’t think my mom will ever forget

Grocery store, left my wallet in car. Customer paid for my items when I ran out to get wallet.

Back before everyone had cell phones my parents dropped my sister and I off at concert there was a guy standing behind us and remarked he liked where he was standing because my sister and I are both very short and he could still see the band even though we were standing in front of the stage. There was no air in the building and it was July so I was about to pass and he magically had water that he gave to me (cap was not broken). After the show we went to use the payphone but there was a homeless guy in it so we walked back to concert hall and ran back into the guy. We talked and he told us about how you could go back to the tour buses and met the band, he took us back there and we got pictures with them. We told him we were hoping our dad would be there soon since we couldn't call him (homeless guy) he offered his cell phone to us and proceeded to wait with us for our dad. I truly feel like he was the coolest angel that was ever sent to keep an eye on my sister and I.

This was in 2004. I was driving back home from spending the weekend with my best friend who lives just an hour away. I could not see the interstate exit because the sun was already setting. (I was driving west to go home) I kept driving up and down the main strip realizing I was low on gas and money and wouldn’t get my paycheck until the next day. I pulled over on the side of the road and started to cry. A man appeared out of nowhere and tapped on my window. Asked if he could help. I explained everything. He gave me $20 and told me that gas on him and to be careful going home. He vanished as quickly as he appeared.

He was truly my guardian angel that day. I don’t know what he looked like but I will never forget him.

This is gonna be kinda long so get comfortable.

Ok, so he wasn't exactly a stranger, but I had just met him a day of two before at a camp I went to a few weeks ago. Well there was a campwide lip sink battle. There was judges and everything (The celebrity judge was the guy that voices Larry the Cucumber in Veggietales!) And we had to dress up and stuff. Well after it was done and we all went outside the building it was held in, he smiled at me and did a little bow, and I curtsied back. It was so freaking cute!

TLDR: READ IT. The story above made me feel all princess-ey ☺️👸🏽

My scummy boyfriend at the time threw me out of the car in the middle of nowhere because we had a fight and he thought it was a good idea to do so without letting me take my bag (wallet, ID, phone... Everything I owned was in there!) with me... He just stopped the car, got out, yanked me out, hit me and drove off... And old man saw me by the side of the road, crying in fear and utter despair, told me to get on his plow machine (fields of barely was all you could see) and took me to his house where his lovely wife served me ice tea and sandwiches. They called the police for me, the old man told the officer what he saw(he hit me, trying to pull me out of the car as hard as he could and punched me in the gut in order to incapacitate me so that I would have no strength to climb back in the passenger seat), gave that stupid idiot's plate number and he was arrested for theft (he did have my bag in his car) and abandoning a minor (he was a legal adult at the time and I was 16) and all kinds of trouble that I still do not know to this day. They also called my parents who were furious and he also got a beating from his dad who absolutely adored me... Needless to say I dumped that worthless piece of trash! I am still grateful to that kind old man, who got me out of a sticky situation. We kept in touch untill sadly, a few years back, his lovely wife left this world and he went to live with his daughter's family up north. There's only a handful of people on this earth who are as selfless, kind and warm as this man. Mr Costa, I hope all the best for you and your family!

I was at the airport once in a different country. Basically, we couldn’t connect to the airport wifi and our SIM card didn’t work in a different country. So we had to ask some people to call our friends and family to tell them we had arrived, and were getting a taxi to go to their house. The first person we asked realized where the city was based on my grandmas telephone location code thing, and he was going there, by random chance. So he offered to drive us. A one hour drive. With four suitcases and three backpacks. It was insane. He had two cars, so all the items ended up fitting. I genuinely thought such nice people didn’t exist, and that we were going to die that day. Such an amazing thing to do.

Unbeknown to me I missed the last night train in Auckland, NZ and was sitting alone in a carriage. As the train driver came to lock up he told me there were no more trains but asked where I was headed. I told him and he said the train was going through that station to the depot and he was happy to drop me on the way. Off we went and he stopped at my station, tooted his horn and chugged on...I stood and waved to the driver on the station platform like one of those olden day ladies waving a loved one goodbye with their hanky! Such a kind deed from this stranger to get me home safely and without a steep taxi fare.

My wife and I went to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando and unfortunately, she's disabled and requires a wheelchair. While we were in the queue for one of the scare houses, we came across a long bundle of thick cables that had a little metal "bridge" over them. We were struggling to get over the bridge when suddenly a couple of burly gentlemen came behind us and picked up my wife, chair and all. We thanked them and they returned to their spots in the line with no words said.

Random acts of kindness are the best!