What was the last good deed you did for a stranger?

[mrs_overall]

(following on form the post in news about the girl being 20p short for her busfare)
My last one was yesterday when at the supermarket a woman had no change for the trolley and I gave her a spare trolley token I had in my purse.

[mrs_overall]

form? *from*

[TOWIE]

Not sure its a good deed, but I have just collected my neighbour's torn and shredded gazebo canopy from my garden and given it back to her in a dustbin bag {:o/

[mrs_overall]

lol @ Towie

[ummmm]

I paid for a little lads chocolate bar. He looked quite distressed when he realised he didn't have the money. I'd just bought a lottery ticket and he said 'Thank you very much, and I really hope you win' Bless....he was about 8.

Anyway...I'm always doing good deeds. I have a very demanding grand father :-)

[tamborine]

Blew up tyre for mum of 3 with my gadget. She was phoning her OH to help but he was in France :)

[cathfromsaron]

i have paid 6p towards a very disappointed little boy's snack at a garage when he would have had to put back a very overpriced sweet! he was with friends and riding a bike there! very cute!

[maggiebee]

Sat and spoke for 20 mins yesterday to an elderly lady who was waiting for an
X-ray at hospital. She was very nervous but we ended up having a good laugh and she was much more relaxed.

[Traci66]

I was going into town and it was raining, there was a little old lady iting for the bus, she had just missed one so I gave her a lift. She lives in our village, I have seen her about but didn't know her.

[mccfluff]

i helped a young las down the canal steps, he was trying to manage with his bike and some chips, so i carried the bike. he wouldn't let me carry the chips for some reason

[TOWIE]

I was also thinking - Has Anybody Done a good deed for me - I can't think of any recently, but many moons ago when my son was around 5ish - I was on my way to the dentist with son and Mum in back of car and my radiator decided to offload its contents on a busy main road and pour out smoke. Loads of cars were honking at me to move - then on a white charger he came to help me.

He took me, son and Mum into his car, dropped me off at the dentist, then took Mum and son back to my car and sorted problem out. Mind you whilst sitting in the dentist chair, I was thinking, I don't know him from adam and has he kidnapped them'. They all returned to collect me from dentist and took me back to my car. His name was Tim and he did ask for my phone number, which I declined.

[sunny-dave]

I find (going back to another thread from yesterday) that it pays to be a tad careful offering to pay for sweets for children if you are a bloke - sad but true.

I routinely wave people with a few items to go through in front of me in the Aldi queue - unless of course they come barging through expecting it, when I am suddenly a rather broader obstacle.

[Cockneycarl]

I am honestly amazed at how kind you all are, where i'm from the adults having probably been scammed before tend to be on their guard which is what i thing those passengers on that bus were and here adults and especially kids will literally target you and bleed you dry or point you out to others so they can give you a story of woe and attempt to milk you.
Are you all from lovely areas or are your area's normal and i just live in a bad one, lol.

[mccfluff]

the area i'm in has mainly good bits, some bad but i've been brought up to help people out if i can, so i do

[sunny-dave]

Pint of Doombar and a bag of nuts please fluff ...

[Janezz9]

Problem is knowing who is genuine.
I worked in London for a number of years and a woman approached me saying she was 30p short for her fare to St Albans.
I did not have any change but I offered to take her money and buy her a ticket using my bank card.
She was off like a shot.
The next day I found it happened with 2 other people I worked with.

Jane

[rowanwitch]

You don't know if that one little act to you might be the ray of light that tells someone who is really struggling the world is not all bad...

. one free bit of help to give... carry a spare carrier bag in the bottom of your handbag... I reckon at least a couple of times in a year you will see someone whose bag has spilt spilling shopping... you have one to offer... you also have one handy if the unfortunate person is you.

[Cockneycarl]

Mcfluff, after seeing live scams, hearing of people getting duped etc.. You develop a 6th sense and tbh it sometimes does cloud your judgement but if some scruffy woman comes to you with trackmarks in her arm, covered in, drinking a full strength beer, rollup hanging from her mouth asking for money so she can "Visit her sick dying mother in hospital" would you give her?

[mccfluff]

lol, you'll get half a lime and soda and a dog chew

and be grateful

[tonyav]

Not sure if this counts, but I have just ( 10 Min's ago ) finished resealing with that White silicone stuff the bath, well I thought I had better get it done because she's been whingeing about for a short time now ( about 2 years ). Anything to keep them happy lol.

[mccfluff]

CC - i don't have much money spare so i'm not likely to hand out a lot of cash, if someone needs a few pennies to make something up at a till or whatever, a hand up the road with their shopping, a lift - not a problem