Random Acts of Kindness

[geoff]

I stopped part way through and Enduro this afternoon to help a guy lift his bike out of a bog he'd tried burying his bike in.

 

Good job I did as did exactly the same the following lap and who happened to come along just after me - yep same bloke, phew.

 

That's good forward planning mate! most people just use them for extra traction here in Essex!

[Gerbutt]

What goes around, comes around

 

 

 

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[New Boy]

One thing that did happen to me a while back which left a bad taste in my mouth was, I saw a homeless girl getting a hard time from some idiots outside a London train station, she was sat begging.

 

I was inside a mcdonalds having some food before a big night out, I felt sorry for her so before I left I brought a huge bag of burgers etc. When I went outside and tried to give them to her, she told me "no thanks I am not hungry"

 

Not Impressed!!!!

[geoff]

One thing that did happen to me a while back which left a bad taste in my mouth was, I saw a homeless girl getting a hard time from some idiots outside a London train station, she was sat begging.

 

I was inside a mcdonalds having some food before a big night out, I felt sorry for her so before I left I brought a huge bag of burgers etc. When I went outside and tried to give them to her, she told me "no thanks I am not hungry"

 

Not Impressed!!!!

 

Nice thought of you mate, but she was probably shook up & frightened from the harassment she got earlier, I would have gone & sat with her when it was happening,but easy said in hindsight,you showed kindness.

[njc110381]

A good deed every day is some effort! Fair play to you.

 

I've done a few - towing folk who are stuck, sparing a bit of time to help people out when they can't afford to pay someone to do it etc. I'm not a karma sort of bloke but I do enjoy the feeling you get when you make a difference to someones day. It should be how everyone thinks but it just doesn't seem to be the done thing these days? Everyone is so tied up in their own first world problems.

 

The sad thing, and it's reflected in the posts on here, is that some people have lost the faith that you're not after anything in return and actually want to help. The two women who told one of you to get lost when they were changing their wheel, and the woman who locked herself in her car when she was offered help - well I guess that stems from the media showing so many negatives in the world. For a person to be scared or worried when you try to approach them shows how things have taken a turn for the worse just recently. It's not long ago that I was a kid and it was nothing for me to go straight out from school and not come home until dark. Kids barely leave their parent's sight these days and I find that quite depressing!

[ArthurBottlesworth]

People are getting weirder and weirder, TV I think .....

 

When I was assessing used to regularily give a tramp a lift, he was great company on a drive, always happy to see him...I think he was happy guy

 

Gave up with normal hitchikers though, they just wanted sit in silence, they can do that on a bus! Perhaps they never talk to anyone.....

[Dan Curtis]

A couple of months ago I was on my way home from work when I came across a fallen tree blocking the road. I got out and walked up to the house to ask if they knew. The old boy told me he'd wondered why people had been turning round in his drive all day. This was mid afternoon and no one had thought to tell him. As he was well over retirement age I said I had saws I the truck and I'd cut it up if he would clear it. It only took 10 minutes and he was very pleased. While doing so, a lady pulled up and swore at us thinking we'd blocked the road intentionally.

 

A few days later I was walking the dog round a local broad to find an old man who had rolled his mobility scooter off the raised path and down a 6 ft bank into a field. I picked him up and turned the scooter over for him, and set off to get him out. Unfortunately, the gate was locked so I had to push the scooter back up the newly dug bank, took everything I had to get it up there. He refused a lift home or to a doctor and set off on a 6 mile trip home, with bits of bodywork hanging off the scooter

 

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[Chris Sheppard]

That's good forward planning mate! most people just use them for extra traction here in Essex!

 

That's the great thing with the Vinduros rather than modern enduros - no one takes it massively seriously and the checks are fairly slack

 

Reckon if he'd not stopped I'd probably have still been there now - was on Buzzsurgeon's TE 350 (a fairly heavy bike to start with) after my KTM ate another set of front wheel bearings and it was already encased in lots of heavy mud too!

[New Boy]

Fair one, it did make me think a bit about doing something similar again to be honest, but I would am sure, problem is I travelled and seen first hand hungry people so it grated me some what!!

[campanula]

I wish to say a public thank you to one of your (arbtalk) members. I was distraught when our horsebox was robbed, mostly because we lost our parents old spokeshaves, chisels and drawknives (as well as our mower, brushcutter, axes and woodburning stove!). However, a forum member (whose name is not a million miles from England's favourite flower) offered us a brushcutter which needs a bit of remedial work but should go. As we are completely unable to manage our wood without tools, this is a lifesaver - especially so since we had to spend every last bit of cash on massive, fortress-style reinforcements. I flailed around with my Austrian scythe - mysteriously not been nicked - but the grass looked more flattened than cut despite going at it like a full-on Zumba workshop (I am blaming the grass) - I 'cut' about a quarter of the clearing and my arms were dropping off), So yep, there are amazing acts of kindness to be found on this very forum.....Not to mention the brilliant advice and suggestions.