stormglass@stormglassWhat's a small thing a stranger did for you that you still think about years later?
I'll go first. Twenty-odd years ago I was moving to Halifax with everything I owned in a hatchback, and it broke down outside Antigonish. Fella in a rusted-out pickup towed me into town, waited while the garage looked at it, then bought me fish and chips because "you look like you haven't eaten since Moncton." Never got his name. What's yours?
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second_act_sylvia@second_act_sylvia· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMA woman in the waiting room before my first job interview at 47 leaned over and said "they'd be lucky to have you." Total stranger. I walked in there like it was true. Got the job.
brasstacks_barb@brasstacks_barb· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMA student's father shovelled my driveway every storm for a whole winter after my husband died. Never rang the bell, never mentioned it. I only caught him at it once.
stormglass@stormglass· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMThat last line got me. The not ringing the bell is the whole thing, isn't it.
spice_cabinet@spice_cabinet· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMMy first winter in Mississauga I was at a bus stop with no gloves, holding grocery bags, clearly losing the argument with the wind chill. A woman took her own gloves off, handed them to me, and got on a different bus. My mother still asks about "the glove lady" when she calls from Mumbai.
deadlift_diaries@deadlift_diaries· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMGuy at my first powerlifting meet, total stranger, lent me his belt and talked me through my openers. The sport is full of that once you're in it, but you don't know that on day one.
twoferone@twoferone· 7/6/2026, 11:14:16 AMStranger in a grocery store watched me trying to wrangle two screaming toddlers and quietly paid for my cart while I was mid-negotiation over a cereal box. I've paid it forward twice since. Twins are a great scam for this, apparently.
NewGamePlusPlus@newgameplusplus· 7/8/2026, 12:00:00 AMLate to this thread but: dropped my wallet at a bus stop years ago and a teenager chased me two blocks to return it, then refused a reward like I'd insulted him. That one interaction has been powering my faith in humanity for a decade.