Acts Of Human Kindness

[Peaspeculiars]

As I walked towards the supermarket this morning I saw that a man had collapsed and a man was resuscitating him as the paramedic car arrived whilst a couple comforted the distraught wife. There was no crowd watching as everyone respectfully gave the group ample room to allow the paramedics to take over. I don't know if the man made it, but I sincerely hope that he did.
What struck me was, that behind the man resuscitating, knelt three more people each ready to take over with the resuss should the man doing so get tired. Each going out of their way to help, each caring enough to give a damn.
I don't know the people who were helping today, but I hope that they get paid back in kind if they ever need help.

What I saw this morning has restored my faith in humanity, so I'll ask the AB'ers - have you ever witnessed something that has restored your faith in humanity?

[ummmm]

I couldn't ever imagine someone walking by without helping unless it was 2am on a Saturday night.

[treetops68]

More than once,but not recently. There again, there are those incidents that make you wonder if the partcipants are even human.

[murraymints]

I have twice had to perform CPR on people, once on a car crash I came across, didn't make it ..another on a young woman giving a talk at a course I was monitoring....she did !

[mccfluff]

i ate my mates slice of cake to stop her getting fat

i deserve a medal

[murraymints]

at the very least fluffy ..lol

[Peaspeculiars]

I don't have a medal, but would best answer do McFluff?

It's tough doing CPR and the person not making it minty, I've done it once at a leisure centre I used to work at, fortunately he made it, but my OH has done a couple where they were not so fortunate. He was very upset.

On a lighter note, I saw this video and thought it would link quite nicely to the theme of the post, human nature and paying back the favour in kind:

[bookbinder]

Well, this wasn't as dramatic as saving someone's life, but;
I returned to my car one day last week, in the supermarket car park, to find that I had a flat tyre. I tried to pump it up with my foot pump, but I wasn't getting anywhere. Suddenly, there was a man standing next to me with one of those electric inflators in his hand. 'I don't like to see a man struggle,' he said, and offered the use of his tyre inflator, which pumped the tyre up enough to enable me to get home and change the wheel. He had seen me from the far end of the car park and immediately came to assist. Perhaps the fact that I am 74 had something to do with it, but I thought that was a kind gesture.

[mccfluff]

lol but of course :-)

[EcclesCake]

Should I ever be in need of CPR I have a friend that I want to do the administering.....his success rate is currently 'nil'....I'd like to be his first success!

It is a tough call as success is never guaranteed but it is the trying that matters.

[Baldric]

The last time I had to keep someone going 'til the Paramedics arrived was about 2 maybe 3 years back outside London Bridge Station, the only thing I was aware of was the number of people filming the incident, didn't see anyone offering to assist.
Don't know if he made it or not.

[ummmm]

Do you think it's human kindness or human instinct?

[Peaspeculiars]

That's fab bookbinder :-)

Years ago a group of us did part of the Pennine Way for our uni course. It was on a strict budget, with a compass and a map and we had to find a camp-site each night without booking in advance. On evening 4, we were totally lost, it was getting dark, pouring with rain and we only had a couple of quid left so had accepted that we would have to pitch tents in a field somewhere and hope the farmer didn't catch us. We finally came across a pub on a steep hill, bought a pint of lemonade to share between the six of us and were discussing what our options were when the landlord came over. He pointed at an old lady who had been at the table next to us, as she got into her car. 'She heard you girls talking and has left £30 for you and has asked me to ring a mini-bus taxi to take you to the nearest camp site, which is about 6 miles down the road'.
Well, we all ran out into the car park to try and catch her to give her money back, but she just smiled from the passenger seat and off she went. I hope she looked back to see 6 teenagers screaming 'THANK YOU!' at the tops of their voices, lol. What a lovely woman :o)

[mccfluff]

that's lovely

[Peter Pedant]

yeah when I fell over iin the street no I was not drunk....
someone dragged their pram over me,

and I thought o that's kind I might have frightened the baby....