Here are some of the most incredible responses.
One of the saddest aspects of our modern society is our innate fear of strangers. From birth, we’re raised being told about “stranger danger” and to be weary of people we’ve never met.
Even as crime rates have plummeted over the past 30 years, people live in greater fear of one another than ever.
Imagine a world in which people were less suspicious of one another. It’d be a world that’s kinder, freer, and probably safer.
To show the world that strangers aren’t so terrible, writer Rachael Berkey posed a question to her Twitter followers: What’s the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
\nPlease share your stories of the time strangers were good to you. Mine was the cab driver who just calmly handed me an entire box of Kleenex as I wept in the back of a late night cab after saying goodbye to a friend. https://t.co/AF1AiBlLQo
— Rachael But Scary (@bookoisseur) October 16, 2018\n
Here are some of the most incredible responses. Grab a tissue.
\nI broke my tailbone while hiking in Cold Spring a couple years ago and a group of strangers literally carried me down a mountain (I don't even remember taking this pic because I was in so much pain but look how nice these folks are!) pic.twitter.com/ZFLtnMA3Rl
— Kari Paul (@kari_paul) October 16, 2018\n
\none time I was crying on the train after a shitty guy broke my heart and a woman asked me what was wrong. we talked for the rest of my ride. I then found out that her stop was six stops ago and she had stayed on just to console me. just thought we all need a reminder of good ppl
— Sammy Nickalls (@sammynickalls) October 16, 2018\n
\nI dropped my wallet in a movie theater once. It was mailed back to me with everything in place, except they took the cash, and wrote a little note about how they really needed it but they wanted me to have all my cards and IDs back. I figured that $40 a fine payment.
— Alyssa October 18, 2018\n
\nI was walking in Boston lost because I had the wrong address (Should have been in Cambridge), it was pouring rain and I had 2 broken elbows and a car pulled up beside me and handed me a huge orange umbrella before driving away before I could even say thank you.
— Dr. Mindi Palmer Fried (@MotionDoc) October 16, 2018\n
\nWhen I got the message that my best friend died, I was on a layover on my flight home to see her. In a weird bathroom nook, I was sobbing, trying to get through to my mom, with no luck.
— Lacey (@lacey1211) October 17, 2018\n
\nThe woman cleaning the bathroom overheard me leaving a message, sat down next to me, and said, “Baby, you need a Momma, you got one right here.” She put her arm around me while I cried for awhile, before gently reminding me I didn’t want to miss my flight.
— Lacey (@lacey1211) October 17, 2018\n
\nI was homeless. It was in a suburb of Chicago in the winter, well below freezing. I'd not eaten or really slept in days.
— Haunted by my own gall bladder (@lynlandon) October 16, 2018\n
A Pakistani family who owned a Dunkin Donuts invited me in, fed me hot soup and donuts.
They very literally saved my life.
\nI was 19 years old, 3 months pregnant, homeless and hitchhiking to LA with my husband. A random trucker picked us up in Utah, drove us to Orange County, let us stay overnight at his home, and brought us to St Vincent DePaul the next day. I’ll never forget.
— Wendy Engström (@wendyspins) October 16, 2018\n
\nJulianna Margolis once screamed at a guy who was following me on the street. We had walked passed her and she realized what was happening.
— Samara (@instant_samara) October 16, 2018\n
\nI was getting on a plane to head back to California, where I was stationed, and where I would deploy to Afghanistan from in another week. My family and then-girlfriend stood there crying as I waited at the gate, and an older woman in front of me noticed
— Tim Rockatansky (@tim_tucker92) October 17, 2018\n
\nWord got around why we were all emotional, and she looked at me, and then told my girlfriend to come say goodbye one more time, and she did. She sat next to me on the plane, and we talked quite a bit. We exchanged info, and as it turned out she was a teacher at a school in LA
— Tim Rockatansky (@tim_tucker92) October 17, 2018\n
\nSo during the deployment, she commissioned the entire K-5 to write letters to my friends and me, some of which I kept to this day. We emailed back and forth and became close enough to the point that I now refer to her as my Aunt.
— Tim Rockatansky (@tim_tucker92) October 17, 2018\n
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