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What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
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#292> He explained that he would stay with me until the medics arrived and that he would call ahead to make sure one of the doctors on duty would "take good care of me."
Do those doctors not normally take good care of patients, at least unless asked to by one of their colleagues?
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#2935th grade, my best friend at the time was in a basketball team, just a small town league for kids. I never really played basketball, so I was planning to watch the game then we'd hang out. It was the first game of the season and my friend was getting his uniform from a table when a dad running things asked me what team I was playing on and I said no, I'm just here to hang out with my friend. He shook his head and sai…
There is a million ways where that interaction goes sideways and becomes a drama between the parents nowadays.
I agree with the replies to this saying that the fact it could lead to drama should not prevent people doing things like this, but I can see this causing trouble/resentment too.
I think a lot of the other unasked for examples given could also cause resentment. Perhaps often the right thing to do is just taking the risk.
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#294Left 240$ in 20s in a money clip on the sidewalk grass of house near mine on the block
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#297Took a few months off of work and decided to bicycle through the Philippines. One day was a very hard mountain stage, driving from Bacolod to San Carlos, on Negros island. Arrived at the top completely exhausted, layed on the roadside in an attempt to recover. Suddenly a car stopped and a young couple of locals handed me a sandwich and wished me luck. I'll never forget them
If a hill climb has you lying down at the top, that’s got to be a good hill.
When it all started, I had no training whatsoever, and, I carried a backpack with my stuff. But along the way, this all improved
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s more of this than you might expect. First time I got to turn on my new Toro I went the entire way around the block.
The other side of the equation is my now dead toro had me covered in gas, frozen fingers, and plenty of swearing, with an itching desire to light it ablaze in the middle of the yard. Tis the cycle of snow blower ownership.
I have a firm suspicion that blowers last a number of seasons, not a number of runtime hours.
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#299When I was 12 years old I got run off the road while riding my BMX bicycle when a car pulled into my lane to park on my side of the street. I was going about 12-20 mph and could not stop since I only had rear brakes. I just locked the rear tire and the bike continued sliding on the dust covered road side. I went over a platform and into a small garage pit used for burning trash. After I stopped rolling, I dusted myse…
> grabs my elbow and pulls the head of a broken bottle out of it. Blood started spraying everywhere of course.
I learned in first aid courses that if something is stuck deeply in a wound, you should not pull it out, but instead fixate it with some bandage and go to the hospital like that. The reason is that it can start bleeding a lot more if the object is removed.