For context I am in my early 40s.
When I was 18ish, I was running for a bus. I missed it by the most narrow of margins. (Also, the bus driver was kind of a dick for not sticking around when it was pretty obvious… regardless…)
As it just so happened, there was a taxi a couple cars behind that bus that saw me running for it and it driving away.
That taxi driver waved me in with nary a word, drove me a stop or two in front of the bus, and without charging me, dropped me off so I could catch the bus. (To be clear this was in an area where the bus route was LONG and the taxi driver obviously knew it’d be an hour or so before the next one.)
Ever since that day, for over two decades now, that random act of kindness has stuck in my mind. We literally never said a word beyond my panicked “THANKS” as I ran out at the end. No names, nothing, just wild gesticulations and gratitude.
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When I was in college I was on my way to class and it started raining really heavy. So I decide to sit it out in a coffee shop. I got my coffee and sat down in a chair that let me see the street. I will never forget watching this play out.
I noticed a guy maybe a half a block away with an umbrella hail a cab. I dont even know why I noticed him, he caught my eye and I watched the cab move towards me and pretty much right outside the window of the coffee shop the cab stopped.
I then I noticed a women with a baby carriage. The cab stopped the back passenger door opened and she started to get herself and the kid/carriage into the cab.
Then I noticed that the guy who had originally gotten the cab had got out of the cab on the driver side back door and was in the process of hailing another cab.
The dude got a cab in a rain storm, must have noticed that women and the kid, told the cab to pull over and gave her the cab.