Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Total Strangers People Will Never Forget


It's weird that we're surrounded by people all the time, but it's against social convention to have a meaningful relationship with any of them. As rare as it is, people will take time out of their lives to make more of an impact than being just a face in the crowd. Some of these interactions are strange encounters, others are wholesome, but the one thing they all are is memorable.

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Text - badass_panda 22 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago 容4 When I was a broke-as-sin 18 year old trying to make ends meet, I had a side hustle providing IT support for households (like a 18 & 129 More geek squad sort of thing). In practice, I would mostly set up computers for elderly people and the tech illiterate, and teach them how to use them ... Or get them out of technical binds (usually with printers) by googling on their behalf. This elderly Korean gentleman hired me to set up his new comp

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Text - Over the course of about a month I came back four times, worked with him, had a lovely meal, and he would tell me about his family and his kids (he was so proud of his daughter, who was about to finish her residency and become a pediatrician). By the end of the month he was pretty comfortable on the PC, and I thanked him profusely for how kind he was and how ridiculously he'd overpaid me. He told me I reminded him of his son (who was estranged for some reason -- I didn't press), and that

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Text - TurdsforNipples 23 hours ago 2 98 The lady who told me I looked great in blue, and that it was clearly my color. 35 & 6 More To this day if I'm deciding between shirts to buy, or wear, I'll go with blue. That compliment was about fifteen years ago at least.

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Text - Back2Bach 23 hours ago 2 4@9 3 4 E8 My lost wallet was returned in the mail. The anonymous stranger sent it back at their own expense ($9.75 postage) with all the money, credit cards, drivers license, and other items intact - nothing was missing. A note enclosed read: "Please do something kind for a stranger whenever you have the opportunity."

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Text - fla_man 23 hours ago 23 24 S 3 2 I was driving down south with my girlfriend, we have a blowout so I put on the donut. The donut blows out while we're exiting the very next exit. So there we are maybe 19 and at least a hundred miles from anyone we know at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I'm thinking on what to do next, and probably looked like there was something wrong so this older man offered to help. He drives me 20 or so minutes to a junk yard to get a cheap tire. Then he puts

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Text - seabass4507 18 hours ago When my wife and I first started dating, we were walking into a Trader Joe's holding hands. This elderly woman looks at us and says rather loudly "CUTE COUPLE ALERT!!" My wife and I still laugh about it, it's been 12 years at least.

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Text - MrsYoungie 19 hours ago The man who saw hubby and I struggling to put our newly purchased snowblower into our (too small) car. He put it into his pick up truck and followed us home and unloaded it onto our drive. It was that moment that I realized that people are kind - and that we were officially old pathetic geezers.

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Text - Wiewsywoo 19 hours ago I was visiting Paris and a woman on the subway bumped past me so hard that her baguette scratched my arm enough to draw blood. I'm not kidding. A French woman cut me with her baguette.

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