What’s one stranger you will never forget?

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WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

So many randos, hard to decide, haha.

I guess this one guy from high school…. my friend and I were outside of a convenience store waiting for another friend to pick us up. We’re standing around, and my buddy is just kind of mindlessly kicking snow onto this patch of ice, and eventually has it pretty well covered.

Pretty soon this middle-aged Al-Borland-from-Home-Improvement lookin’ dude comes walking by. He steps on the ice patch and flies into the air, feels like he froze in mid-air for a second, lmao. While he was mid-slip, he yells out “CRIPES!!!”, before crashing to the ground. I remember him picking himself up, and then some other dude running over to him with a set of keys that had gone flying, like “Are these your keys, sir?” And then as the guy who fell is walking into the store, we just hear him mutter out loud “They oughta put up a sign!” And as soon as the door closed behind him, we just LOST IT😂😂😂

Long story short, we were dicks and didn’t even think to try to assist this dude, just laughed at him🤦‍♂️, but my buddy and I both put “CRIPES!!!” in the little “Memories” section underneath our senior yearbook photos, lmfao.

GuyAnswersGirls123 · Accepted Answer

One time I got so drunk in my early 20s after the first time I went to nomihoudai (all you can drink). In the process I passed out on the street in my own vomit, and I felt someone rummaging through my pocket and tried to reach and stop them but I was too drunk.

When I came to, my wallet was missing and I had no money to get home. So I was too tired and hungover and found a bridge with a bunch of homeless people sleeping under it and tried to sleep there.

Then an elderly woman woke me up and said, "You shouldn't be here! What are you doing?" So I explained the situation to her and she tried to pass me money for a train ticket back home. I kept trying to refuse but she kept insisting, so I offered to exchange my fancy zippo lighter. Then she refused and I told her I'm sorry and will sleep elsewhere and then she followed me around the whole place and stuffed the money in my pocket. So in exchange I stuffed my zippo lighter in her purse and she caught me and laughed but gave up on refusing it.

After that I was able to get a train ticket back home and get some sleep! I'll never forget her kindness.

electromagnetic · Accepted Answer

June 2021 I was visiting Wales and went to a place called Dunraven Bay. Massive walk down this pretty beach. Anyways, I went alone to explore and walking down, I ran into this dude who was just chatting me up at random. Didn’t think much of it. Asked if I was alone and I said no and that I have friends waiting for me at the bottom of the beach. Not because warning bells were going off but because I wanted to listen to my music and explore alone. I didn’t think anything of it.

When I was leaving that evening, I ran into a group of people who were saying that a young lady was assaulted on that same beach couple hours earlier.

Obviously I cannot be 100% sure it was him but my suspicions do say it was.

wiltingrosepetal · Accepted Answer

My family went on a road trip when I was 6 and stayed in a villa. My brother and I went to a park close-by. I had my mum's phone, trying to take photos of us on the play equipment. That's when I saw a nearby person and asked her to take a photo of us.

So I, a 6 year old child in a foreign area, passed my mother's phone to a complete stranger. And she took the photo and left 😀 I don't remember what she looked like but her genuine kindness has stuck with me all my life. I know it's not much but she must have thought for a second how easy it would've been to rob us. Yet, she didn't

Youngbrain · Answer

My mother hold a store and sometimes my sister and I are helping her especially when she has to cook or to pee😅
Anyways , I was once holding the store and a guy entered he was cute and he asked about the price of something when I answered he was a bit shocked and he smile and I apparently losed control and smiled too. The cute guy bougth it and went away when my mother came back I asked her about the price, that I didn't obviously knew (shame on me ), of the thing he bought and surprise surprise I was wrong about it and I sold it little cheaper (at least🤣) well I had to complete the money but it didn't matter.
Many days later , I was holding the shop again and saw him he bought other thing and smiled and I almost losed it again but since the accident my mom put the price on the thing we sell.
And he came back many times and every time I wanted to ask him his name but I didn't have the courage 😅😅
So when one day my mother was holding the shop and I came I saw him out I ask my mom who he was and she told me she didn't knew his name but he was my age and they lived in our neighborhood after that I never saw him again but from time to time my mom is like " look it's his mom " or " he bought something here today but you were at home so"🤷🤷
That's my story😅😅

SotiCoto · Answer

I forget just about everything sooner or later.
I vaguely recall one time I was on my way home from work and some scruffy-looking lady about 60 or so was violating my personal space on the train platform. Obviously I was standing exactly where I knew the doors would open when the train arrived. And the train got there, the doors opened, and that damned hag tried to push past me onto the train.
Now I'm not the sort to give the slightest bit of leeway to anyone if they're trying to shove me around, regardless of age or health. So I just got on the train as if she wasn't actively trying to get in my way. Obviously we couldn't both fit through the door at the same time and she had the audacity to start getting irate at me and try to push ahead. So I grabbed hold of the handle inside, hooked one arm in front of her neck and basically arm-barred the old slag back out of the way.
This is where things started going to shit, as someone on the train decided (presumably on the grounds of the perpetrator being an old lady) to take her side and pick a fight with me. So there I was trying to get on a train, fighting off an aggressive hag from behind and some random bloke in front... and after shoulder barging him into the opposite door I managed to get on the train.
EVERYONE within that end of the carriage was glaring at me as though I were in the wrong. So I did the only sensible thing. I personally went up to each and every stranger who was glaring at me, pointed at them right up in their face and told them "Fuck You." ... one by one... to each and every arsehole there, and finishing with the two who had caused me trouble, the random and the hag... "Especially Fuck You Two."

Then I sat down.

About 12 people just got off the train at the next station.

bobalife · Answer

Couple months ago, I was at a very busy coffeeshop with a very long line, I left my spot in line to go bathroom and came back to the end of the line… but this really kind guy told me it’s okay for me to go back to where I was in line infront of him. I was shook because it was a pretty busy line lol. He was also good looking and came to sat next to me later to chat with me lol. But it was just moments of such humble and kind acts that makes a whole difference in the world🥹

Couple years ago, me and my friend were heading to our seats at a live music concert.. this random man came by and gave us two front rows seats😭🫶🏻 literally best day ever or best year ever!!! lmao.

Account · Answer

That is a great question.
Once many years ago a part of my leg got trapped outside when I was inside the train.
The train door closed immediately and blocked my leg out right after I went in and only one woman that was inside the train helped me out to pull my leg inside.
Only one helped me out of so many people inside the train who were only watching.
I will never forget her.
I hope everything is going well with her and I hope if by any chance the universe works on karma, she has the best things in life.
I will always feel like I am in her debt.

itsclearlynicholas · Answer

Stare bears, I dislike people, who are strangers who choose to stare. In my head I'm always thinking walking along ignoring them, many things like "I'm sure they/them (I'm avoiding writing you, get it) wouldn't stare at someone bigger than me" or "stare bears, rude darn stare bears" and "if I wouldn't stare their way, why am I being stared at" without expressing so with my eyes 👀👀👀🫣 I just think these things when I've passed out of eyeline 😋😋 if only they knew. Stare bears, such people, are the worst as bad drivers and rude folks out there in other aspects, even rude stranger creatures are out there. You know, animals with a bad attitude or mean dog/cat etc. Lol, "what did I do to you" 😅😅😅 vibes 🤔

Sharkstealth · Answer

I was about 24 and was a ski bum at the time in November in Alaska. We were waiting for the resort nearby to hire us for the season and it was getting cold. We were also trying to find a place to live in the nearest town to the resort. We couldn't live in our tent anymore so we were temporarily in a homeless mission in town. I had a job and had permission to sleep during the day because I was employed at night. In the afternoon I was walking around in a park nearby because it was to late to be in the mission but to early for work. A guy gave me a taco from Taco Bell and It was one of the few "gifts" I have ever received. It was also the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. I was very hungry.

RebelinSteel · Answer

A few years back we were walking along pass near my parents house, there was this old guy with a walking stick walking towards us, we said evening as we passed him, then as we walked past, we thought he might be lost as the house at the end of the cul de sac was empty and we knew he was not going to our house. We turned around to see if he needed any help and was gone. Totally not there, path was empty. To say we were a bit unsettled is an understatement.

MemeSupreme · Answer

when i was 8 i tried breakin into houses in a nearby neighborhood bc i was dumb. my ass got caught at the first house lmfao

the dude was totally nice about it and not a creep too thankfully. he gave me food (which was huge for me) and we talked while he worked on his car. asked me stuff like what i wanted to be when i was older. never saw him again but it was cool

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

First guy that tried to shoot me up close I can still more or less remember the look on his face. He knew that I knew what was about to go down. I knew he knew. It was a very intimate moment we shared when our eyes met and I'll always remember this look in his eyes like the stark realization that it was too late to turn back. For him it was just too late.

BlissfullyCurSed · Answer

The dude who was constantly checking on me when I was on a tram. He even got closer and hold the pipe next to me to have a closer look. I tried not making any eye contact with him and luckily, did not have issues. He went away once he realised he made me uncomfortable.

KittygosMeoWW · Answer

This guy that bought my babies swing, some diapers, and clothes in a target line and helped me put it in the car when I was 9 months preggo. We didn’t even talk in the checkout line and I declined but the checkout lady said to take it and he looked really happy to do it. Never got his contact information but I think about it often, especially because I had a hard dr appt before that. He made my whole day.

pethouse · Answer

At my work we have people come in through a temp agency. There was this one old dude that was super racist. Like I’m talking about so openly racist that no one said anything because how open he was about it. It made everyone feel so uncomfortable. I’ve never met anyone even close to that in my life and I grew up around a few hicks.

kylee2437 · Answer

The older man in his 80s that gave me relationship advice at the grocery store I go to one day. “Never ever settle for a man that doesn’t want to take you different places, go for the guy that wants to adventure with you”

andreasderjuengere · Answer

His name was...  it was... he was called... dammit: I forgot who he was or what he did.

slatyb · Answer

The woman in Boston who said to me "You have mischievous ears". I was too naive to realize she was trying to pick me up.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

A beggar boy, who hugged me once, and told me  “Thank you for smiling at me, everybody else just looks at me annoyed.”

Yannae · Answer

An acrobat street performer who canceled his act to chase a purse thief. They caught the purse thief.

ab2shifty · Answer

One day me and my homies were playing basketball, but we needed one more person so then we just called the closest stranger near us to play with us. Then this guy just popped out of nowhere and played with us and completely destroyed us 🤣

12karen · Answer

the guy I met on vacation two years ago

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