how nice are some people :) ........

[noodle_]

Im on a very small yard (4), so pushing hay bales i struggle with - as its virtually impossible to push a huge round bale alone!

There was a feed delivery for another livery, so i helped to upload that as I was there, then put it all away - and asked the guy would he mind helping me move this hay bale into my tack room

never met the guy in my life..... lovely guy - didnt have to help me but did


Has anyone else been helped by kind strangers recently??? or have you helped them???

I had to share as its been a while since some random person took the time to help me

 

[CatStew]

Aah that's nice of him! Makes life so much easier when people all co-operate and help each other out. Wish more people were like that!

On Monday of this week, my boy came off grass livery and onto DIY. I decided to disinfect the stable because a couple of the other horses at the yard have had a minor virus and didn't want to take the risk.

A girl who has only been at the yard for a couple of months and I've only really said "hello" to a few times came over and started to help me scrub the floors etc, which made my life much much easier! I decided to turn my horse out overnight to allow the floor to dry & then keep him in from Tuesday night.

Tuesday night after work I got to the yard to find that the same girl putting the bed down for me! How lovely is that!?!

She can't drive as yet, and was waiting for her parents to pick her up on both nights and said that instead of just hanging round not really doing anything she would make herself useful. She's newish to the area so I'm going to take her out on a few hacks and show her a few routes

 

[Piccy]

I stopped and sat with a lady the other morning who had been in a car accident until the ambulane and police arrived keeping her calm and still.

and a couple of weeks ago I was visiting my mum in hospital she has broken the top of her femur (sp) she has many other medial things and im not well either at the moment, well got to the end of visiting and i left mum had been upset missing home and the dogs had had a blood transfusion etc, well got to the stairs and fell apart sobbing so upset think the shock hit me full force right at that moment and i was alone, there was a gentleman visiting friends in the same ward as my mum and he just sat on the stairs with me 8pm at night didnt say much but sat there for quite a while and kept me company, it was one if the kindest most selfless acts anyone has ever done for me and i am truley grateful to him and always will be.

There are kind people about but most of the time you dont notice


That guy sounds really kind and helping each other can make the world a much nicer place to be.

Have to also say since i have been unwell and with mum everyone at the yard has been so helpful, when mum was in hospital a lady at the yard finished off for me each night to save me going to the yard after work then back to the hospital.

 

[kirstykate]

See, there is still a few of us left in this world!! Most people up here are like that

 

[noodle_]

catstew - thats so lovely of her!!

Piccy - thats so nice - sometimes that fact someone is just there is so nice



sometimes its the little things in life

 

[Lu1]

I helped an elderly lady the other day at the garden centre who didnt know how to get her back seat to lie flat and had bought a LOT of plants...while it was dark with gale force wind and rain and i had my 2 young children with me...she was so happy and couldnt believe i had offered to help since i had my hands full already-i try and treat people the way i would like to be treated and help when i can

 

[Piccy]

I helped an elderly lady the other day at the garden centre who didnt know how to get her back seat to lie flat and had bought a LOT of plants...while it was dark with gale force wind and rain and i had my 2 young children with me...she was so happy and couldnt believe i had offered to help since i had my hands full already-i try and treat people the way i would like to be treated and help when i can

Exactly treating people the way you would want to be treated, shame so many are not of this school of thought

 

[Bertolie]

All the people on my yard are lovely but it really brought it home to me last October when one of my horses spooked in local woods and bolted off in a blind panic. People on the yard dropped what they were doing to join in the hunt for the horse. The horse managed to get out onto a busy main road where he was involved in a collision with a car. One of the liveries on the yard had her horse on her lorry and was on her way to a competition but when she heard she turned around, unloaded her very confused mare and drove to the scene of the accident to take horse to the vets in her lorry.

At the scene of the accident, a local pub landlady took two of the young girls from the yard that had been out looking for the horse back to her pub and gave them a drink so that they didn't see the injured horse. Another couple from the yard were the first on the scene and bandaged the horse to prevent blood loss (a major factor in his full and quick recovery according to the vet). There were also two other people, complete strangers, without whose help things might have been so much worse - one was a motorcyclist that managed to get infront of the paniced horse and stop traffic, meaning that the car the horse collided with was stationary, and another gentleman who kept the horse calm the whole time until he was loaded on the lorry. We presumed this man had experience of horses as he was so good with my boy but it transpired that he had never had any involvement with a horse until that day. Unfortunately, we never did get these peoples names to be able to thank them for what they did that day, but we will be forever grateful to them.

 

[kirinsam]

My hay man is lovely too and always goes out of his way to help me both in delivery times and helping me put the big round bale properly away.

Haveing said this I too try to help others when I can , offering to put shopping on the conveyor belt as the person in front packs . Dont know why more people dont do this as it gets me out quicker too! Reaching for things on shelves , and Always Always saying thankyou too people who serve me and other road users.

Bearing in mind how happy these little things are makeing us all feel perhaps we could start a be nice to people revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JFTDWS]

Where's that *like* button gone?

There are some truly lovely people in the world. There's even a few of them on here

 

[noodle_]

exactly JFTD

 

[Elsbells]

Bertoli-What a wonderful story!

Amazing to think that you owe your horses life to those amazing people. Brought quite a lump to my throat!!

I hope he had a full recovery

 

[Flibble]

I am a great believer in the 'pass it on' theory. Its nice to do a good turn and if it makes that persons day better and they do a good deed for someone else all the better.

My lovely man is very good at getting groceries off top shelves for old ladies.

 

[sandi_84]

I forgot to take the passport to the yard for mum's new lad's vet check and one of the ladies who loans (brings to mind a lady what lunches ha ha!) offered to drive me home and back before the vet got there. It's a 14 mile round trip! She's offered to take me home if I ever need a lift even tho she lives a good 5 miles away from where I am and has offered to go hacking with me anytime she's free. Also she's one of life's naturaly cheery people which is lovely, any time she's around we all have big grins on our faces coz she's infectious
I try and help out as much as I can when it looks like someone needs it, I was brought up to be nice and polite and to treat others how I want to be treated so it's really nice when you come across someone from the same school of thought when there seems to be so many rude or unthinking people out there

 

[rhino]

Where's that *like* button gone?

There are some truly lovely people in the world. There's even a few of them on here

Nice people?

On HHO?

*snorts*

 

[Always Henesy]

Lovely accounts of what human nature is really all about.

Last winter my husband and I were driving along the main road where we live in horrendous snow. It was 4x4 or nothing conditions.
We saw a paramedic on the road and pulled over to see if he was ok.
He was in a pickle as they had to reach an old lady down a driveway and couldn't get the ambulamce down to help her. My 2 little girls and I waited at the top in the ambulance and my husband drove the paramedic to the old lady's house (the other paramedic had reached her on foot), and brought them all back up the drive to the ambulance.
The neighbour had a Landrover discovery with OFFROAD tyres on and refused to help them (His words were "I'm not driving down there - I'll get stuck")
Yet we didn't hesitate to help in our Jeep.
We gave the paramedic our contact number and my husband drove 50 miles that evening to the hospital to collect the lady and her husband after she had received treatment (she had fallen and split her head open). The snow was so bad they would not have got home otherwise.
We were very glad to help and would do so again without hesitation.
I believe in what goes around comes around.
I will always help and be kind even to complete strangers.

 

[Piccy]

Lovely accounts of what human nature is really all about.

Last winter my husband and I were driving along the main road where we live in horrendous snow. It was 4x4 or nothing conditions.
We saw a paramedic on the road and pulled over to see if he was ok.
He was in a pickle as they had to reach an old lady down a driveway and couldn't get the ambulamce down to help her. My 2 little girls and I waited at the top in the ambulance and my husband drove the paramedic to the old lady's house (the other paramedic had reached her on foot), and brought them all back up the drive to the ambulance.
The neighbour had a Landrover discovery with OFFROAD tyres on and refused to help them (His words were "I'm not driving down there - I'll get stuck")
Yet we didn't hesitate to help in our Jeep.
We gave the paramedic our contact number and my husband drove 50 miles that evening to the hospital to collect the lady and her husband after she had received treatment (she had fallen and split her head open). The snow was so bad they would not have got home otherwise.
We were very glad to help and would do so again without hesitation.
I believe in what goes around comes around.
I will always help and be kind even to complete strangers.

What a lovely thing to do, some of the posts on the thread really make you stop and think.
Bertolie what kind and wonderful people who helped in your hour of need so glad to hear your horse made a good recovery.

 

[beeswax]

I always let others through the door first, wait for people to finish a private conversation before butting in (pet hate of mine), when I was at a diy competition yard if I wasnt riding and had finished doing my own chores and had time to waste (this was quite often as I needed to bring horse in from field before going home lunch timeish) I would help the YO to muck out some of her boxes and bring horses in from the field for her and generally just be a nice person incl helping them with their computer problems and guess what I got b*t*d at for using their wheelbarrows to muck out (but all the liveries used them) - for all the many times I help others all I ever get from folks is s***t, and yet I watch others do as little as possible for folk and life never gives them a bad time. I am beginning to wonder if I am the mug here for being so helpful. The best one was being asked to feed employers dogs when they went away, but when they came back and dogs came up to greet me, I was told not to be too friendly with their dogs (confused.com). Nice to hear there are a few givers still out there!!

 

[Marydoll]

Boxing day night 2 yrs ago i was working and arranged to get off early to go out.
En route home i saw a car in the middle of the road, with a man looking on the road in front of it.
I put on hazards and jumped out, he'd hit a dog that wasnt able to get up, it had tags on so i bent to check the number, the man jumped in his car and took off leaving me with the dog
Eventually the people who were responsible for the dog came, ( merry ) walking up from a local house.
The young girl very upset lifted the dog and i ran them back to their house and waited for them to call their vet, who wouldnt do a house call.They couldnt get a taxi, so i ended up running the girl and her dad, who kept calling me an angel to their vets 10 miles out, then waited with them till the dog was seen, kept in, and ran them home again.
I was about 2 hours later than my usual finish time by the time i'd finished ferrying them about.
I left my number as i wanted to know how the dog was and through discussions they knew where i worked.
Two days later i got a lovely card delivered to work telling me the dog was fine, she had bruising and swelling to her spinal area which when it subsided she was able to move and walk again, she'd lost 3 teeth and her lip was split, but she would make a full recovery. they also enclosed a gift voucher for M&S which i thought was really nice of them.
I did it because if ever any of my dogs were hurt like that id like to think if someone found them, they would do the same for me.

 

[Carefreegirl]

I had an old guy go over on the ice this time last year when I was out on delivery. Another person took him home and he was panicking as he'd run out of food for his cat. I told him I'd pop in when I finished so if he wrote a list for me I'd go and get it. Well, he gave me a list that consisted of cat food and about 20 varieties of biscuits (human) and 2 pots of jam. When I got back he invited me in for a cup of tea but his house was awful. The next day he'd left an envelope for me stuck to the door with £20 in. I posted it back and told him to bugger off so he called me a bitch ! - but in a nice way. We had some really good chats over the next few months til eventually he went into a home up in Scotland near his family. Sad to see the old git (as he became known affectionately) but he couldn't care for himself. And I never ever saw a cat !!!!!

 

[topclass]

Was going to Alton Towers with my friend a few summers ago and there was a motorbike and car accident they had all blocked the road and were sort of man handling this biker who I could see had a broken tibia and fibia and as head injury they were trying to take his helmet off i stopped ask my friend to get the traffic moving then settled down to sort him out until the paramedic arrived, got rid of the guy trying to take his helmet off and someone trying to take his boots off and drag him up onto the pavement. (Got a bit mad and told them all to bugger off) Checked him over kept him awake and talking when paramedic arrived told her broken tibia, fibia, suspected fracture of the 5/6 vertibra paramedic was so impressed she thought I was a doctor but I told her I was using my horsey knowlegde to find his injuries. Kevin Green was his name he sent me a bouquet of flowers and when he ws fit again came to see me and gave me a £100 to go towards my horses and took me for lunch told me id saved him from being in a wheelchair cause I stopped people moving him I was so happy to see him I was crying. We still keep in touch and that was some 8 years ago

 

[DW Team]

There are some VERY nice people out there like the wonderful lady at Addenbrokes who came to my rescue when two cars had parked so close I needed a tin opener. There was no way my size could have got in. This nice lady ( about a 0 in size) and her husband came to my rescue she said she had not driven in 3 years!! husband was a star and talked her calmly what to do in getting the car out. Luckily it is automatic and space in front of me was free so she go in and let the car walk forward. I was so grateful as I had been in the cold for over an hour.

 

[MrsElle]

I found some land to share and had my lad delivered. Within a week I realised what a mistake I had made after I saw the other person who shared the land hit my horse.

I had looked at a horse locally before I got my lad and I rang the local horses owner to ask if she knew of any land to rent. I was in tears as I told her what had happened. This lovely, lovely woman told me she would meet me at my field in an hour and would pick up Fat Lad and put him in with her horses until I found somewhere permanent. She could ill afford to keep Fat Lad as she had little grazing for hers as it was, but she said Fat Lads welfare was more important than having to feed hay for a bit longer.

I don't know what I would have done without her.

 

[Cobiau Cymreig Wyllt]

This is one of my fave sayings:

"Be kinder than necessary for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle"

I like this thread...keep spreading the kindness

 

[liannexsx]

Watched my other half taking in shopping for an elderly neighbour the other day n just thought aww. Not as grand as some if these other posts but sometimes it's the little things

 

[Marydoll]

Watched my other half taking in shopping for an elderly neighbour the other day n just thought aww. Not as grand as some if these other posts but sometimes it's the little things

Pushes like button

 

[JennBags]

I actually helped an old lady across the road the other day! Cliche much?

 

[Carefreegirl]

Jennbags - did she actually want to cross the road (wink smiley) ?

 

[Batgirl]

there are some nice people out there and a lot of them at my yard, I am house/yard sitting a my friends livery/stud yard (live on site). One of the mares slipped what turned out to be twins over lunch time. Rang my friend who is normal morning staff who was there in 15 mins after dropping her son with ther mum and stayed until 9pm, helped bring in the brood mares and yearlings helped with the vet as they needed both of us. While we were i with the vet all the full liveries were coming past 'can i do anything, i'll do feeds, I'll skip out, i'll ....' It was so nice as it is stressful enough looking after the yard without dramas! One of the temporary staff drove the mare to the vet yesterday when it was decided to take her in and the neighbour who has a landscaping business came and buried the foals. (Not to mention my mum brought fish and chips for me and my friend!)

Has been the week form hell but couldn't have got through it without elp form nice people.

I like to think it is karma coz I always help other people but I am grateful non the less!

 

[5horses2dogsandacat]

All these stories are making me well up, I'm a bit emotional and its been a long day but I can't stop myself.

I'm so glad to hear that there are still selfless people in the world.