Small acts of kindness
Travelling from Brighton to Chichester one evening this week I witnessed a lovely train guard at work, he evicted a group of excitable youngsters (who clearly didn’t have tickets) with such good humour they got off at the next stop without a fuss and impedending disaster was averted. He then rescued a woman traveller in distress (on the wrong train and doomed to miss her connection to Cambridge) he got her on the right train, calmly and coolly sorted out a new route and timetable then, equally calmly issued another man with a ticket for his journey the next day when he overheard him worrying about the ticket office being open – not sure I’ve conveyed the sheer amazement I experienced watching someone be so personable, so thoughtful. It was that small but kind gesture that warmed me and next day I was invited to join a facebook group ’small acts of kindness’ these are indeed, the times for small acts of kindness.
October 29th, 2008 at 06:21 pm
Now this is a case of theme and substance uniting. Your blogpost was itself an ACT of Random Kindness in that it made me feel a lot better - it in itself produced the effect it describes.
God Bles the ARK!