Picking up scattered papers, telling the bus driver to wait a little longer, holding the door open. These actions which require minimum effort on your part can really brighten up someone's day. You never know when someone's having the worst day and really needs some kindness, so you should practice random acts of kindness whenever given the opportunity. Think of how much better the world would be to live in if everyone looked after everyone else. So share your stories of times you were helped out or helped someone out in a little way that made a big difference.

Plenty o' times.
Some examples:
There was this girl that rode my bus. She was running late for it and the buses started to pull off. She ran past our bus twice looking for it and we all sat laughing at her (including me, it was humorous). So after a while I got off the bus and yelled for her. She heard me and ran and caught the bus.

Another time: I bought my friend some lunch because she didn't have money and was really hungry that day.

There are a billion other times too.

Edit: 1st ^_^

A couple of weeks ago, I was on line to get on the bus and a guy dropped a metrocard. I thought he was throwing out an empty one, but after he was on the bus and searching through his pockets for his card, I realized that it was an accident and told him where it was.

I was in the grocery store today and a guy was asking people for a dollar because he hadn't eaten. Someone reported him and the manager came and told him he had to leave the store. So I bought him a hoagie and a soda and gave it to him before he left.

The everyday help.
Helping people open the door, lend them a hand, etc
Can make a big difference.
=]

Hmmm random good things people do for me or things I have done. I have .... Well I have helped someone find a seller for an event item. Other times I have helped people with their shopping or helped them around the shops while I am working. That can't really count much though

I always try to be helpful when I can, never really thought of it as a big deal before
but when I do think about it, it's really sad how few people are willing to help someone else out or just plain be polite at times. :0

I think the time that someone most appreciated an act of kindness was on my way to college, this woman obviously in a rus wanted a ticket to Barnsley, but only had a note on her, which the driver couldn't accept, he didn't have change so she'd have to get off the bus...So I used my lunch money to buy her the ticket she needed, well she insisted on giving it me back and said she'd mail it to me, so I gave her my address, but we both got off on the same stop, so she asked me if I could spare a moment, which I could, my bus gets there early but the next one is late, so she bought us both hot drinks and gave me her fare back there and then. She made my day, it was wonderful to start the day off with a nice chat and a warm drink.

To be honest though, I think you're ushing it saying just "tell me about the good things you've done." The people who do good things do them a LOT and the people who don't...don't...

I try to help people often. Most of the things I do should be common courtesy and it's truly sad that they're not. I always hold open doors, especially if I see someone who seems to be struggling with holding something big and trying to open the door. I always give up bus seats too if I see someone who could use it more than me, like an elderly person or a parent with kids. & I think it's terrible when people see someone drop things and just walk around them instead of helping. D: I've lived in a touristy small town and a big city before, so I've helped tourists and such find their way around. I've been helped that same way too, mostly on buses because I am horrible with directions and figuring out public transportation. I think I am pretty old-fashioned in the way of politeness and courtesy.

As for random acts of kindness, have you heard of the You Are Beautiful project? I write "You are beautiful" on plates if I have enough food left over at a restaurant. xD A waiter noticed once and he had this huge smile on his face and said thank you! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, lolz. :angel:

Originally Posted by Blondheart

I was in the grocery store today and a guy was asking people for a dollar because he hadn't eaten. Someone reported him and the manager came and told him he had to leave the store. So I bought him a hoagie and a soda and gave it to him before he left.

OMG THAT IS SO NICE. I wouldve followed you home lol.

I try and help or ask if someone's alright if I can see that they're carrying a lot. I do hold the door open especially for parents with prams (try pushing one laden with child and some shopping and opening a door at the same time) who would have more trouble doing so.

Unfortunately I once struggled with a massively overstuffed bag that I was taking to the charity shop for my parents. The handle split and spilled a load of the contents onto the ground. People just walked past as if nothing happened and no one offered to help. I was pretty upset at the ignorance and ended up carrying the thing in my arms to the shop.

If I saw that happening to someone else I'd be dashing to them to see if they needed a hand either with getting the spillage sorted or carrying the items. This doubly applies if it was an elder person or someone who looked particularly fragile.

I've also given up my seat on the bus for an elderly person. I don't think I was very popular with the other students for that but quite frankly I didn't care for their opinion.

Guess I'm just like that.

I helped a random old grandpa yesterday. He was on my pace bus, and didn't know how to speak English. Luckily, I knew how to speak Chinese, so I helped him by showing him the train station, how to get where he was going..etc.

I try and do favors or help people as much as possible. A few seconds of delay to hold a door open for someone is no big deal. $5 to the woman in the McDonald's with three kids who's crying upon the discovery that she has all of 35 cents in her wallet. Stuff like that..

I always hold doors open for people behind me. Usually they hold them open for me too.

Once a friend and I drew little suns on a bunch of paper and wrote "suns for cloudy days" on them and stuck them in the most random places that most people wouldn't bother to look (like under benches and on the ceiling) around our college. Another time we found 22 random facts that were funny and taped one to each step on a staircase. We sat there pretending we had nothing to do with it and watched people's reactions to reading them. That was really fun, I need to do it again sometime.