What small, kind gesture has someone done for you when you needed it, that you still remember to this day?
Posted by Bluebell1206@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 10 comments
I’m talking like, they might not have even realised you needed it but showed you kindness when you were at your worst
Aspect-Unusual@reddit
A friend who never really shows any kind of concern about anything or anyone when we hung out turned up at my house before she went to work to bring me a gift (a music CD from a band we both liked), gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me it will be ok, didn't say anything more other than she had to get to work.
This happened the day after my dad passed away, I hadn't told anyone I knew about it.
A while afterwards when I felt like engaing with the outside world I questioned her about it, how did she know. Turns out she didn't know my dad had died but she knew something was horribly wrong because I didn't reply to one of her texts the previous day and was comms silent with everyone else that we both knew too.
Can't express/explain how it made me feel, but i wasn't completely numb thanks to her.
cari-strat@reddit
My horse that I owned for 25 years passed away. A few days later I went to my karate class and a lady there had gone through my Facebook, found a photo of him and had it made into this incredible picture created from dozens of layers of white, black and grey paper overlaid. Photo doesn't show the complexity but every spot is dozens of tiny pieces layered on each other. It was such a kind gesture, I took one look and sobbed my heart out, but I'll never forget her kindness in recognising the depth of that loss.
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
Do you know if the lady has a business or willing to take orders? I’d love to have the same done for my cat
I’m sorry for your loss x
cari-strat@reddit
She'd had it made by a little business but unfortunately I don't know the name of the business, and the lady who had it made is no longer at the karate club. However if I can get in touch with her and find out, I'll happily message you the info.
mustafizn73@reddit
During a rough day, a stranger paid for my coffee in line, and that simple act of kindness lifted my spirits and reminded me of the goodness in people.
Tashimo@reddit
When I was in hospital for a couple of days at Uni- I had no family and no visitors and no one cared. There was a lovely old lady who shared the same ward as me, she chatted and gave me a spare comb. In that moment she really looked after me and I cannot bear to throw that cheap little comb out a decade on.
JadedIndependence306@reddit
On a bus about 3 years ago with my then 3 year old. The bus was busy and I’d folded the buggy and we were sitting in seats. There was nowhere easy to store the buggy (poss a wheelchair user, I don’t remember), so I’d wedged it in the bit that people put their shopping, near the driver. We were sat right near it, and I had to jump up a couple of times to shove it out the way so people could easily get off - including an older lady with a walking frame. It’s a busy bus route through some villages with lots of older people popping to the shops etc. My son was pretty sensible, sitting still when I had to keep jumping up, but of course I had to reassure him I’d be back in a moment and wasn’t leaving the bus. It was just a bit stressful and I felt I was in everyone’s way.
Penultimate stop (we were getting off at the final stop) and lots of people were leaving the bus. An older couple turned back to me as they left. The man said something along the lines of “you’re doing brilliantly Mum, well done” and I burst into tears. I remember calling my husband sobbing once we were off the bus.
It was just really significant for me because I had felt like an imposition, and someone saw me and took ten seconds out of their day to make me feel better. They could’ve easily not said anything. I’m sure I was just emotional because I was really tired, but I’ve remembered it!
Jlaw118@reddit
In February last year I factory ordered a new car after writing off my previous one in an accident. My partner was pregnant and we ended up going through really serious complications with the birth of our son where he was brought into the world six weeks early at the beginning of March, and my partner seriously ill with preeclampsia.
It was such a difficult period of time where I ended up taking extra time off work, and by the time I did go back to work, nobody had kept on top of my reports or anything in my job role and had mountains to catch up on, with my line manager constantly pulling me aside for other tasks and not letting me catch up.
I became seriously overwhelmed. Life was extremely stressful at both home and work and yet I had nowhere to complain and let off steam because admittedly everybody was going through worse than what I was.
It was one Friday I was having a bad day. Forgot my phone and couldn’t access any of my work files because of 2-factor authentication. Whilst waiting for somebody to bring it in for me, I got distracted and received an email saying my new car had arrived in the UK and it just suddenly gave me some excitement and something to look forward to. I started looking at my order form and panicked that one of the extra features I really wanted hadn’t been ordered.
That evening I drove to the showroom and briefly mentioned it to the lady on reception. She went and got the sales manager to come out to me where he told me everything I wanted was ordered, and pointed to something I’d missed on the order form.
He then insisted I sat down and had a coffee. I think he could just see the stress on my face and so got one of the ladies to make us both a drink, and he sat down with me and we got chatting. We talked about all sorts, cars, work, future of vehicles, and I’d also got telling him about the hell of the last few months that I’d been through with my car accident, birth of my son, work etc.
He showed empathy and understanding, but what meant the most to me was that this guy took the time out of his day to just sit with me, have a coffee and a chat because he could see the stress in my face
Crochet-panther@reddit
I’d mentioned to the teacher who did singing lessons that another girl was bullying me, this was years ago when I was about 15. Didn’t tell her in a please do something way or anything, it just came up.
The day I had to sing solo in front of my music class that teacher who wasn’t teaching and had no reason to be in the lesson suddenly had a need for my bully to come with her out of the room for ten minutes.
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