[Regular Show]

So in order to maintain the balance between 'good and evil' (EB has been very lately) I thought it would be nice to hear about the kindness you have encountered from strangers or people you know.

I'll go first..

Yesterday I had to go into our local mall to get something quickly - DF couldnt watch the kids because he was sleeping after a night shift - and I had our SN DS 7 and DD 2 yr old tot with me.

I had DS in his wheelchair and therefore DD 2yrs was expected to walk with me. I knew this was going to be a challenge (shes a runner) but I had no other choice.

In order to maintain the peace and keep DD on track we headed to Boost Juice first and got her a drink. Waiting for our order I met a lovey lady who chatted to me and spoke about how cute DD was. To me she looked like a class A mess in her MCN, T-shirt, and pink gumboots - but she thought she looked adorable.

We then walked a little further down the mall and I was stopped by another lovely lady who was gushing all over DD and said how cute she looked in her 'out-fit'. We had a lovely chat and then parted ways.

On the way out we stopped at Wendy's so I could get DS a hotdog. DD refused to sit down and eat hers and just wanted an ice-cream. She was getting ratty, dancing in the mall, taking her boots off and repeatedly asking for 'ice cream'. DS had wanted an ice cream but he hadnt finished his hotdog so I decided to get our ice cream in a take home pack and make it myself at home.

I asked the young guy behind the counter for our ice cream and asked if he could pop a chocolate flake stick in the bag (because that is what DS really wanted) - I would pay for it of course. Well this lovely young gentleman (looked like a teenager) put 3 in there. One each for the kids and he said I had to have one too - and then he didnt charge me for them either. I thanked him and said how much I appreciated it.

It was only something small but really really made my day

This post has been edited by Regular Show: 22/01/2013, 07:31 PM

[tribemama]

Thats lovely!

[Therese]

What a nice thing for him to do

[Elippo]

How lovely.

I have one from the other day. I stopped in a the bottle shop to get hubby a case of beer. I struggled out to the car carrying the case and thought I would try and open the boot without putting down the case (me being stupid and lazy). Needless to say it wasn't going well - well a guy darted out from another car and insisted on holding the case while I opened the boot and got myself organised. It was a small thing but was lovrely and put a big smile on my face.

[Leha]

I was at bunnings last week getting some potted colour that DP had asked me to get. I hate gong to bunnings on my own as they both always want the little kids trolleys and my DS just runs of.

I was at the checkout and both kids were having meltdowns. They both fell over and hurt themselves one after the other and it was hot and the line was huge. Anyway, I had a trolley and 2 crying kids and didn't know how I was going to get to the car. A lady offered to walk with me to my car and help me get the kids in. It made my day.

I have found people will quite often offer to help me if I am struggling and I always try and do the same if I am in the position to do so.

[Lokum]

In the lead up to Christmas, on some very hot days, I got nothing but kindness.

I had a newborn who wouldn't lie in the baby bit of the trolley, so I was carrying a sooky baby and trying to push a trolley full of groceries to the car. A man by the door offered to push the trolley to my car, and because he was smoking said he would follow at a distance so the baby didn't get smoky. Once at the car, he insisted on unloading the trolley into the boot!!

Recently I was struggling with baby in the sling, and DS1 sitting in the trolley. He wouldn't/couldn't let me lift him out for some reason, legs kept getting stuck. Another woman came and helped lift him out and asked if there was anything else she could do.

After a picnic in which DS1 had got cake and other treats, we got coffee from a coffee cart on the way out of gardens. DS1 was insisting he wanted icecream, and we refused. He was sitting by the coffee cart saying, "I want ice cream, I want ice cream, pleeeeaaase," while we ignored him. Some sweet young 20-ish people came and said, 'We think he wants icecream. We can buy it for him if you like?' We laughed cruelly, and said 'we know he wants icecream, and thanks for your offer but he can't have it,' cackle, cackle. Good on them for asking first, and being kind enough to offer!!

[Regular Show]

Love all the stories, keep em coming

[raone]

DH took DS for a walk in the pram awhile back. He was so excited to come home and tell me how all the cars stopped for him. He wants to walk him all the time now.

[Dresden]

Many years ago when my ASD 11yr old was about 4, he had had been acting up a scene all morning while I ran errands with a 2 yr old, and newborn. The entire trip I'd felt glares from people, had comments on how naughty he was being and was feeling like complete sh*te. Last stop was the chemist, and it was in there he decided to have the mother of all meltdowns. I just sat in the chair and bawled. A few moments later i felt a hand on my arm and looked up to see a little old man sitting next to me patting my arm and telling me " It will be alright love" Of courwse, in the state I was in it made me howl even more, but I so appreciated the kind gesture.

[Guest_Dinah_Harris_*]

I remember when DD2 was a newborn, she had cracked it just as we got to the checkout with a trolley full of groceries. In those days, she used to vomit every time she cried because she had a really sensitive gag reflex and I was desperately hoping she wouldn't vomit all over me.
I was trying to settle DD2 with one hand and put my groceries on the conveyor belt with the other. Two or three people immediately came over and unpacked all my groceries onto the belt and then put the bags in my trolley for me.
Not store workers, either, just really nice people who could see that I was about to cry!