Random Acts of Kindness - Time to feel GOOD
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Sounds like MRT is not so bad afterall. So people basically need to know the \"strategic\" position to stand in order to get an invitation to sit.
Another 2 experiences to share....because I do come across many nice people so I am trying to pull them off my memory one by one.
Last weekend, at a very busy mall..I saw some helpers sitting on a bench to wait for the kids attending enrichment classes. As I needed a seat to do my work, I walked up to one thinking she was seated there for a while only just to pick a kid. Then she told me no...it would be a 2-hr wait...but because she saw that I was planning to do some work, she offered to let me have her seat and was quite insistent. However I was more insistent as I truly appreciated her kindness to offer me her seat and then would end up standing for 2 hours herself. Later I found another place to dock myself.
Today again at peak and rush hour, I was turning out from a side road into another side road with a long queue of cars waiting to get into the main road. This time a blue taxi gave way to me to enter the road. To me, taxis are always in a hurry and especially at peak hours so I do appreciate the gracious behaviour. -
We were dining at a ramen place and my child needed a cup of warm water.
So I asked the waiter for it⦠He hesitated for a while and then he said, ok would be right back.
It took quite a while and my child badly needed a cup of warm water (usually she had her own in her bag but she ran out of water), so when a waitress served us the food, I reminded her. Her reply was however, "Do you mean mineral water? We do not serve water here." Just as she finished her sentence, the waiter came with a glass of hot water with ice in it and handed over to my child. Then I realised the waiter was really nice to do us this favour. This was good customer service as he was kind enough to help my poor child who needed water badly compared to the waitress who went by the book. I had sent in a formal feedback to the management to compliment the waiter.
Here are some of our other "water" experience:
Toastbox charges $0.30 for a cup of warm water whether you patronise them or not.
Ah Kun, if you are patronising them, no charges for warm water but if you are just asking for a cup of water(had a crisis before), then they would charge $0.30 as well. -
No...not off topic...Wow insider, your story is not trivial as it prolongs a life.
It was great the man shared his survival story to inspire your dad. One never knows what simple words/actions can do to change a person's life.
I believe some people do good because it makes them feel good, some people do good because there is a form of return.
However, I also believe when good is done with sincerity, it can be felt deeper. So far all the encounters here are with strangers and there have been no expectation, so the feeling is definitely a sincere one.
Unfortunately, if I need to write about nice people daily, it is always related to driving. Today, I was driving to get into a place but the rain was super heavy at that hour. So I could not see if I could turn into a road and by the time I reached the turning, I realised I was on the outer lane which could not turn. I felt blood gushing to my face :oops: ...oh oh... and I signalled and lucky for me, a white car behind just let me turned into the lane first. Again I waved thanks...but not sure if the driver could see as the torrent rain was overwhelming. I felt like a bad driver :stupid: but I thanked the driver behind for his/her patience with my blurness. I am always grateful to people who never horn at others at first opportunity. :celebrate: -
2 more recent encounters to share. It is surprising that not many has pleasant experiences to share.... I have it almost daily that I feel compelled to share.....otherwise these kind souls' work has done in vain.
I was busy preparing food for my child and then I realised my MIL had something urgent for me to do which required me to drop everything and rushed to the mgt office to settle.
After a few phone calls where I explained my difficulties in getting to the office as I could not leave the cooking half way, they offered to send someone to me instead to get a document signed. I had requested for an exception to assist me to clear the issue over the phone and they went one more step to offer someone to come to me instead.
I am happy that at least they think of solutions instead of putting road blocks in my way in a crisis situation like that.
Today, I again have graciousness shown to me at peak hour. Now is by a BUS! Bus # 157 driven by an uncle. There was no junction box but he was patient enough to give way to me to get out of the slip road. Having driven for over 15 years, such gestures still never fail to impress me. -
I have 2 very pleasant experiences to share today, in fact 3, one happened last weekend.
Experience 1:
At lunch, we bought from Macdonalds today as take-away. While getting the straw and napkins, my ever-so-excited dd accidentally spilled the entire cup of green tea on the floor. While I was still in obvious shock and reprimanding my kid for her carelessness, a manager shouted quickly, \"Nevermind, nevermind, no worries, quick get another cup of green tea for this lady.\" Then in a swift he came back with a signboard to put against the spot reading \"Caution: wet floor\" and scooted off again to get someone to mop the floor. All this within a minute's work.
Meanwhile another manager did not see the green tea shouted again..\"Where's the green tea?\" I must have shock-rooted to the floor for that brief 2 minutes watching all these actions taking place.
Then one of the staff brought the drink to me. I thanked her and asked I have to pay then she shook her head and beamed pleasantly. I did not see the 2 managers around..so I went back to the counter to ask a staff to convey the message and that staff gave me another bright smile. Btw, that outlet had all the senior ladies working at the counter and the first manager was a bright-looking young man and the other manager a confident, stoic-looking lady.
I just want to say \"Thank you Macdonalds, even though you do not have the food that I will die for(too old to eat such a diet la), you have service that I will return for\" I must say that this is not the first time Macdonalds have given me good service but they still never fail to surprise me.
Experience 2
At dinner, I was buying fishball noodles for my child. While picking up the bowl of noodles, I notice a strand of hair on one piece of vegetables. While I highlighted to the stall-keeper, I was prepared to just remove that piece of vegetable, then he quickly took away the whole bowl from me and said that he would replace the entire bowl. I suppose it was only the right thing to do but because this was not a restuarant, I had lower expectations, so to me it made the experience pleasant. However, what really made the whole experience so pleasant was not this!!!
Last weekend I was also there for the same noodles as it was the first time I took my dh there so I made a whole intro of dialogue with him about the food and all for a quick dinner. I reckon :? they heard me? I was softly pointing out to him that I would not go for such stalls frequently because......
1. The bowls were so overused that we could see a dark ring around the bowl where the soup line was..arggghhh
2. The chopsticks were the wood ones and they felt so soiled at the tip...quite disgusting using it. I could imagine the germs...
3. The display panel was next to a table we sat at and the dust on it looked like pecks of pork floss hanging from it... so I mentioned softly to dh, if we sat too close, it would be \"ε ζ\"(in Hokkien)
Well, whether they really heard or not, the surprise element for me today was:
1. Most of the bowls were changed, ie, the dark shades ones were gone!!
2. The chopsticks were changed to dark ivory ones completely, no more the wood ones at all!!
3. I stared so hard on the display panels, the \"pork floss dust\" was completely gone!!
I don't believe they heard me even though I felt that there were eyes on our backs when we were dining there....it must be their spring-cleaning time coinciding with my dialogue with my hubby...so hilarious. :lol: So now there is a higher chance that I would be visiting it once every week.
Experience 3
I was frantic on a late Sunday night looking for mini packing bags to pack some candies. I slammed into many \"closed doors\" because no one was selling what I wanted. Finally someone directed me to an accessories store which might carry such packaging, I was hoping, at least small organza bags. To my disappointment, they were sold out, what hard luck! Then I realised they had some small packing bags for their accessories so I asked the lady boss to sell them to me. She agreed and counted the quantity for me. Meanwhile we chatted about other things and when she was done and I wanted to pay her, she decided to give them to me!! Well, this was quite an unexpected gesture as this was the first time I had been to the place and I might not even return again. Perhaps the lady boss knew her kindness would be repaid and she was not wrong as I planned to pop by again one of these days and purchase something from her. She really made my day that day.
Bottomline is good service can really make a difference. -
This happened 11 yrs ago.
I did not encounter the nice pple, so to speak ... but this is what happened...
My dad was involved in a hit and run in the middle of a busy KL street, which later turned fatal.
He was left lying there for don't know how long.
Somehow, two samaritans stopped their car and I don't know how they managed to put my Dad in their car, but they transported him to the nearest hospital.
All his belongings were untouched, ie expensive watch, wallet...
When I went to KL, the staff at the hospital told me how lucky my Dad/We were cuz usually in this busy street, loads of traffic and pple would not bother to help, also it was a miracle that no one stole his things.
Although the outcome was sad, I tell myself that it could have been much worse w/o the help of the two samaritans.
I am so forever GREATFUL to the samaritans.
God Bless Them -
autumnbronze:
Wow, really a miracle to meet such people.This happened 11 yrs ago.
I did not encounter the nice pple, so to speak ... but this is what happened...
My dad was involved in a hit and run in the middle of a busy KL street, which later turned fatal.
He was left lying there for don't know how long.
Somehow, two samaritans stopped their car and I don't know how they managed to put my Dad in their car, but they transported him to the nearest hospital.
All his belongings were untouched, ie expensive watch, wallet...
When I went to KL, the staff at the hospital told me how lucky my Dad/We were cuz usually in this busy street, loads of traffic and pple would not bother to help, also it was a miracle that no one stole his things.
Although the outcome was sad, I tell myself that it could have been much worse w/o the help of the two samaritans.
I am so forever GREATFUL to the samaritans.
God Bless Them -
1) ds1 ordered a meal at Long John Silver; spilled the drink; the counter auntie replaced it at no costs and got their cleaner to clean up.
2) i was preggy in a crowded MRT; a man saw me and stood up to give his place for me; an uncle did not realise that i was standing (i think) and went to sit down on the empty seat that the man had gave up; the man scolded the uncle and i got my seat
3) i was on board a crowded bus with ds2 and my nephew (ds1 was with my mum near the entrance of the bus). as i moved further towards the back of the bus, there were students (2-3) and also an old auntie who offered to give up their seats; i rejected them cos only 3-4 stops only.
4) was having dinner at Fish & Co; when hubby went to foot the bill, we were told that someone had settled the bill for us; it was an expat; he told us that our boys reminded him of his boys.
5) my boys had their fair share of free kiddy rides courtesy of grannies and mummies who graciously allowed my kid to sit along in the 2 sitter kiddy car together with their child :). the most memorable one is the incident at Vivocity; a dad carried both my boys onto the moving kiddy ride (it is a 3 horse round-about-ride; dunno what you call it) one by one as his girl only occupied 1 out of the 3 horses. after the ride ended, he carried them down again.
6) drove ds2 to school; am an inexperienced driver (so i tried not to drive if possible :P); the school compound is also quite cramp with a lot of parents' cars and school buses; found myself in a tight situation; worried about scratching other parents' car, i inched bit by bit forward towards the school building as the school buses prepare to exit the compound and there were cars lining up behind me; though it felt like eternity, no one horned at me.
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jedamum:
Wow, jedamum, this one is really cool .....
4) was having dinner at Fish & Co; when hubby went to foot the bill, we were told that someone had settled the bill for us; it was an expat; he told us that our boys reminded him of his boys.
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jedamum:
Wah!!! :!: This one is the ultimate best from total strangers. It's good that he was paying for a whole family. Heart-warming.
4) was having dinner at Fish & Co; when hubby went to foot the bill, we were told that someone had settled the bill for us; it was an expat; he told us that our boys reminded him of his boys.
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