What's the nicest/kindest thing you have ever done for someone?

[SendTheGOPPacking]

I'm not talking about volunteer service or charity at the holidays. I'm talking about in addition to or over and above that.

When I run across a mistake at work, instead of running it back to someone to correct before I do my handling, if it is something I can handle, as a gesture of goodwill I just handle it myself.

One year I worked with a woman with 3 kids who was in a desperate situation who wasn't going to be able to provide much of a Christmas for her children that year. I anonymously put $300 in an envelope in her mailbox.

A true, true gift is anonymous. That's important. It's not the same if you claim it. Remember that. ANONYMOUS!

Another year I came across someone who was going to have unexpected guests from out of town for the holidays. This was going to be a burden for her. I mailed her an ANONYMOUS $100 gift certificate for groceries.

What goes around comes around. Give a true gift (anonymous) to someone when you can and when you see the need. You will reap the rewards in karma.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Does deliberately causing someone's existence count?

Edit: grammar

[SendTheGOPPacking]

2. Works' for me!

:D :thumbsup:

[Nikia]

3. I lent my best friend my car

For two weeks. His was literally falling apart and needed some major repairs.
Anonyomously, I have only donated $20 a few times.

[MnFats]

4. ummmm. I picked up a stranger walking along the freeway...

...moments after her abusive husband ditched her following a 'domestic dispute'
i thought her car had broken down. It was raining. She was crying.
"Car trouble?"
"No, my husband kicked me out of the car. We had a fight."
"Is that his car there?"
"Yes."
"Is he still in it?"
"Yes."
I tried to think a little like a cop.
"Did he hit you?"
"Not this time."
"Does he have any weapons in the car?"
"No. Maybe. I don't know."
"Let's go."
She was so stressed she threw up in my car. I reached back and grabbed a towel out of my workout bag and handed it to her.
I started to drive, keeping one eye in the mirror to see if the husband followed. His lights came on but he stayed where he was.
I took her to a Denny's -- maybe it was a Perkins -- bought her coffee and we talked for a while.
I called a domestic abuse service and they sent someone over to counsel her. I gave her my card and asked her to call me when things were calmed down and let me know how she was doing.
She never called. I called the service, but of course they can't talk about 'client outcomes.'

so i don't know what ultimately happened. but i think maybe i saved her from violence that night.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

6. Good for you!

As a female I would be leary to get involved in a domestic violence situation for fear of getting harmed myself.

The closest I can come to that is a homeless woman I used to see on the way to work all the time. I left her a cup of coffee a couple times when I had to stop and gas up the car.

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. I once delivered and assembled a piece of furniture for a deaf woman

After work, and didn't accept a tip. This was when I was a freshman in college and was working at Office Max.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

7. It is if you were not required to assemble the furniture for her.

:thumbsup:

[THUNDER HANDS]

20. I wasn't required to do anything for her

I was a cashier at the store.

[Justpat]

8. I let my first husband

get out of our marriage alive.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

9. COme on! You can do better than that!!

;-)

[Justpat]

12. All right then,

It would be the time my beloved sister-in-law asked me to be the
one take care of her when she came home to die with terminal
pancreatic cancer - and I did.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

16. 180 degrees difference.

Wow, what a gift.

[MAlibdem]

10. actually, anonymously giving to someone you don't know if often considered

the most moral way to give. It takes the hubris out of giving.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

15. Exactly!

[Mrs. Venation]

11. Bertha and I Gave Her Best Friend At Work A Car

Rose's fiancee was t-boned while he was driving her car. No one was hurt, but Rose's car was a total loss. They need two cars, but can't afford two car payments. Bertha and I had a car we didn't use much, so we gave it to them.

It isn't a shiny new car, but it runs well and it will keep them from having to buy two cars.

It made Bertha and I feel really good to be able to help two wonderful people.

[Droopy]

13. At an Ozzy Osbourne concert one time

There was a bunch of us all packed in on the floor. No seats, general admission. If you've ever been to a rock-n-roll show in that situation you know how packed in everybody can get when the act comes out and everybody rushes the stage. When this happened a guy standing next to me tripped and fell to the floor. Somebody else almost fell on him and I pushed him back up. The I reached down and lifted the guy from the floor before he got trampled. I looked at him when he got up and he was scared shitless. He thanked me then proceeded to get of the floor.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. We bought glasses for single mom and her kids.

There's a lady here in town who is raising 4 kids by herself, and working 2 jobs to do it, one as a waitress at a cafe Paddy and I both patronise. She and her kids all wear glasses, and the bridges are taped, lenses scratched, etc. . Last Christmas, rather than giving each other lots of gifts, we bought this lady a gift certificate for 5 pairs of glasses (and 5 eye exams) from a local optometrist and mailed it to her, signed 'Santa Claus'.

:)

[Insider]

17. gave away that bush $300 faux rebate

an acquaintance was having trouble getting child support from her (deployed) army sgt husband. she was struggling with three children alone. in fact, on DU people were discussing what to do with that check.

when it came, i called her and asked her to meet me. cashed the check and gave it to her in an envelope. drove away. it felt good. i love dollars as much as the next guy, but i was really conflicted about using that bush money.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

18. Good for you.

I got a letter for back taxes owed on the very same day as the damn rebate. I had made a mistake in my prior years taxes. So I just cashed it and paid it back.

Asshole.

[jus_the_facts]

19. I gave a guy a ride to the bus station and the money for a ticket.....

....he was hitchin' his way to Oklahouma for Christmas...at least that was his story...he was a really nice guy and I never felt like I was in danger...I got chastised for it from everybody I told...but it really made me feel GREAT to be able to help somebody out like that! :)

[SendTheGOPPacking]

21. Money well spent. Twas the season...

:thumbsup:

[SendTheGOPPacking]

22. Any random and senseless acts of kindness to make up for those

rotten things you did as a teenager?