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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Some guy has just paid for my McDonald’s for me. *true story.  
I got to the till, and I got “that guy in front of you has paid for your order!” Damn. I was taken back, and could not believe a stranger who I just smiled at and nodded a ‘good morning’ would do that. How nice is this.
* I should have ordered more!!! Haha.
Have you or had anyone done something like this for you?
Or is it just filmed for YouTube nowadays? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve done this twice this year and also gave someone a gift card with some money left on it Because it’s not somewhere, I shop very often. It’s good to be nice |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Someone once said that random acts of kindness can bring a little joy to someone’s life for a few moments. I do it from time to time. Coffee for a nurse or staff at a hospital Costa that sort of thing. It is nice to see the smile on people’s faces.
Good on whoever did that to you. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Someone once said that random acts of kindness can bring a little joy to someone’s life for a few moments. I do it from time to time. Coffee for a nurse or staff at a hospital Costa that sort of thing. It is nice to see the smile on people’s faces.
Good on whoever did that to you. "
I’ve never paid for anything. But I’ve done things.
But I have been inspired to nabe do the same. A free coffee feels awesome, so I might buy the odd one here and there now.
It did make me smile. |
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"Some guy has just paid for my McDonald’s for me. *true story.
I got to the till, and I got “that guy in front of you has paid for your order!” Damn. I was taken back, and could not believe a stranger who I just smiled at and nodded a ‘good morning’ would do that. How nice is this.
* I should have ordered more!!! Haha.
Have you or had anyone done something like this for you?
Or is it just filmed for YouTube nowadays? "
What a bloody thoroughly bloody nice bloke!
I sometime buy Costa/bar staff a coffee because they’re hard working but happy and chatty. But nothing so selfless as this. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Nobody stranger has ever done something like this for me without an ulterior motive. "
I know that’s what thought. But there is absolutely nothing for him to have gained from doing that. Apart from my thanks. |
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"Nobody stranger has ever done something like this for me without an ulterior motive.
I know that’s what thought. But there is absolutely nothing for him to have gained from doing that. Apart from my thanks. "
Yes I can see that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An act of random kindness?
I do whenever I can - (it doesn't always have to involve money which I have precious little of anyway)
Carrying shopping out to a car, helping someone fold/unfold a pram / mobility scooter. Carrying a pram etc up steps, list is endless.
I aim to make at least one person a day smile  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Some guy has just paid for my McDonald’s for me. *true story.
I got to the till, and I got “that guy in front of you has paid for your order!” Damn. I was taken back, and could not believe a stranger who I just smiled at and nodded a ‘good morning’ would do that. How nice is this.
* I should have ordered more!!! Haha.
Have you or had anyone done something like this for you?
Or is it just filmed for YouTube nowadays? "
The only time I can think of that I've had someone do something like that for me was being on the bus with my littlen.
She fell asleep on me on the bus, we had tonnes of shopping bags, been a long day (went for food and ice cream for my 40th) as I'm trying to carry her of the bus I was trying to reach around for my rucksake to put over my shoulder while carrying her, I just felt this hand reach over from behind me and put the strap over my arm.
Then as we left the bus someone else came running out with her hat that we'd dropped.
It kind of restored my faith in humanity a bit as I've done quite a few things to help strangers and that was the first time I could think of that it was returned. |
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I was at the hospital with my other half one night as he was in a and e , I was waiting in Costa, it was past midnight so I grabbed a coffee and a sandwich ( it was dinner as I'd been at work until 7 pm got hone at 8.30pm and was back at the hospital by 11.30 pm !) A doctor was in the queue behind me so I paid for her drink ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hard to do it when you order food on a touch screen. I have not seen in it happen in real life and the few times I did see it was in a performative and insincere video made to get views for ads. |
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"I was at the hospital with my other half one night as he was in a and e , I was waiting in Costa, it was past midnight so I grabbed a coffee and a sandwich ( it was dinner as I'd been at work until 7 pm got hone at 8.30pm and was back at the hospital by 11.30 pm !) A doctor was in the queue behind me so I paid for her drink ..."
That's cool. After what a variety of ambulance crews did for my father in the last days of his life due to fuck ups by the hospital and health services I always look for opportunities to treat them, coffees and such.
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"I was at the hospital with my other half one night as he was in a and e , I was waiting in Costa, it was past midnight so I grabbed a coffee and a sandwich ( it was dinner as I'd been at work until 7 pm got hone at 8.30pm and was back at the hospital by 11.30 pm !) A doctor was in the queue behind me so I paid for her drink ...
That's cool. After what a variety of ambulance crews did for my father in the last days of his life due to fuck ups by the hospital and health services I always look for opportunities to treat them, coffees and such.
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Thats Really lovely... I know how hard people in the hospitals and ambulance service work |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
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I was on a plane and had english money and my debit card on me the stewardess wouldn't take either the guy in the seat in front of me paid for my drink, kind people are out there i would have paid for his if he couldn't pay for whatever reason  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"That's nice, hopefully you can do something nice to keep the movement going 
Miss S x"
I actually will. It reminded me of last Christmas. I found a £10 note in Wallet. I didn’t know I had so I handed it to a barmaid as a Christmas tip. A few days afterwards, Customer tipped me a 20.
I really do believe positivity, attracts positivity, and good vibes are a thing.
So yeah I’m going to look for a way to pass it on |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"That's nice, hopefully you can do something nice to keep the movement going
Miss S x
I actually will. It reminded me of last Christmas. I found a £10 note in Wallet. I didn’t know I had so I handed it to a barmaid as a Christmas tip. A few days afterwards, Customer tipped me a 20.
I really do believe positivity, attracts positivity, and good vibes are a thing.
So yeah I’m going to look for a way to pass it on "
That's lovely!
Yeah definitely your right, I agree. Makes people think too if it happens to them so they carry it on
Miss S x |
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Ahh love stories like this!
I paid for a lady's shopping just before Christmas, she was near the till shouting and crying at her boyfriend down the phone because he had given her his card and it got declined at the checkout...I just asked grabbed her trolley, loaded her shopping and paid for it. She asked what I was doing and I just said "never mind that, i'll sort this. You sort him who you're shouting at out"
She asked how she could pay me back I just told her to pay it forward when she could.
Life is bloody tough for everyone in some way shape or form, if you can ease a burden or make someone smile then do it. Little things make all the difference. |
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"That's nice, hopefully you can do something nice to keep the movement going
Miss S x
I actually will. It reminded me of last Christmas. I found a £10 note in Wallet. I didn’t know I had so I handed it to a barmaid as a Christmas tip. A few days afterwards, Customer tipped me a 20.
I really do believe positivity, attracts positivity, and good vibes are a thing.
So yeah I’m going to look for a way to pass it on "
You can buy me a McDonald’s in March  |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
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I've bought coffees etc for people who didn't have the money with them to pay.
The only time I had it happen to me was when my dad died we had rushed to the hospital when we got the call. He sadly had passed by the time we got there. We were there for a few hours and when we went to leave I realised I hadn't brought my bag so had no money for the parking meeting. A lovely man saw the how upset I was when I realised at the pay machine and he paid for my parking. It was a lovely gesture at a time and I don't think he realised how much it helped on that awful day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do things all the time to brighten someones day. I've paid for peoples meals in cafes alongside my own bill and left, carry bags, open doors, check people are ok. Its always been appreciated. I'm in Egypt at the moment and paid for 3 families rent for a month ( nothing in English money, but the world to them)
It's often the little things that go a long way. People do care when someone else cares for them.
Keep going with it everyone. Its passed on.... and around and around we go
Love breeds love
Mrs C xx |
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