These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.
We were admiring some little birds sitting at the water’s edge by the marine lake at West Kirby. A passerby heard us talking about them and stopped to tell us that they were called turnstones. How have strangers shown you kindness recently? Give yourself some ideas to help your memory with other stories of kindness: […]
“While out with the dogs in my new powerchair, I navigated some kissing gates which, thankfully, were designed for wheelchairs. But several people offered help in case I needed it which was really kind.” It’s so wonderful that multiple strangers showed kindness – such a great example of how kindness really is the norm! What
“We hiked the Dartmoor Way last Friday – 20miles on Day 1 and 10 more on Day 2. At end of Day 2 we get to Chagford walking like John Wayne. We’d left Caz’s car at Widdecombe and mine at Chagford to drive us back so both could get home to a bath and a
“London: trying the buses instead of taxis between train stations. Bus packed, wheelchair space full of standing passengers. They leapt off, loaded me in, and re-packed around me with ‘Which stop do you want, luv?’ I was used to this travelling through Paris; was good to meet it in London too.” We hear so often
“I’m disabled and live on very little money per month and there’s a local Facebook group to me that has, no kidding, kept me from starving. Whether it’s been posting a request for food I desperately needed or someone just reaching out and saying they’d like to send me a grocery delivery, I am alive
“Norwich. Complicated bus route; I got on the one that didn’t do the loop to the hospital, and realised after it stopped at the next stop. Help? to driver. He laughed, pulled out to block the correct bus which would pass without stopping, shouted to explain to other driver, and they got me on the
“When in holiday season the combined wheelchair-bicycle-area in a train was completely occupied with bikes and a wheelchair user entered, everybody (not only the owners) got up at once and helped to free the space and someone organised a bicycle stack with each bike attached to each other in the order of when the owners
A whole Somerset village showed kindness this summer – what kindness did you see during your holidays? “Summer during the high holiday season must be a nightmare for the tiny quaint communities that have holiday lets. Tiny country lanes, parking is a premium and then the Grockles arrive! My husband and I arrived at a
Help us get Monica’s gratitude to the mystery kindness superhero at the The Gate Clock! “I would like to say a very big thank you, to the lovely person who handed my mum’s rucksack in to the bar of The Gate Clock Wetherspoons in Greenwich on Monday 15th September. We had left the pub before
“This afternoon I was travelling back home with my two young children, after visiting my parents. Multiple bags in hand I got to the station to board the first of three trains home to discover it was delayed. This would inevitably mean that my whole journey would be affected. Slight panic set in with my
