Random act of kindness on a train

Apr 20, 2015 11:34 PM

undercovergiraffe

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzAC7mLxJw

Faith in humanity restored

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How the person who is recording knows that is going to happen? a wizard did it? is he a wizard?

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the sauce. And the feels. +1!

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

She's crying cuz this was the 4th goddamn time she was stopped from practicing for flower sales contest, and she'll never win at this rate.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 2

This is the type of shit I like.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I won't lie. The side boob drew me in.

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 2

yep

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I as well

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Dont think any vid has brought me as much joy as the one linked here has. Shut the hell up and do something nice today.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Amen, brother!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So much good in that man

11 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 2

I really want to believe he isnt some mob boss. that he knows that sometimes paying it forward is worth it

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I am 73% sure that man is Keanu.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Me too. Was having lunch in a restaurant. Someone walked in and paid for everyone there. When I went to pay, was told it is paid for.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Its crazy that this happened two years ago!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Who put all these onions here :(

11 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

ninja.gif

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

why was someone recording this?

11 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

Just in case you're curious, in the video the guy is oddly aggressive (keeps asking the price). Might have been for safety?

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 7

I ALWAYS want to know this.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

1/? One time at the Taco Bell drive-through, the speaker voice asked how I was &, caught on the spot, said "not too good," being a bad day.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

2/? I placed my order & pulled ahead to the window. When they handed me my food they said it was on the house, & wanted me to feel better.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

3/3 That random act of kindness still touches me to this day. When you reach out to someone, you may not just be helping them for a moment.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

A guy told me the rose was free. 5-15 minutes later he said I was stealing from him, because business.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Fuck

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This happened to me in Egypt, they try this trick with foreigners fucking constantly. They even push it into your arms& let go...

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Damn. Phones. Anyways, don't always fall for the rose act. If you love someone, a simple rose is not always the game plan.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Gypsies do it all the time here. One thing I know for sure, never take anything from weird strangers for free.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to some $140 is not much but to people like the woman here it could mean feeding herself and possibly her family

11 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

or feeding her crack addiction

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 26

Well...so? She was out there working for it...not like was begging.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

You're a cunt

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Had someone give me a $200 bottle of brandy after one shot cuz she didn't like it. It was like giving away a bottle of water to her.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I'm in the "first world" and this is still a lot to me

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh sure, go ahead and tear a hole in the oppressive veil of misanthropy I've enveloped myself in.

11 years ago | Likes 309 Dislikes 2

2) Nefarious plans, no doubt. Terrible plans to weaken your resolve with unwanted emotion.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A veil is like a fine net isn't it? That would mean it has fewer holes when there is a tear in it I believe.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Sick reference bro

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1) That's some fragile misanthropy you've got there, bud. Notice the whole thing was caught on video. Clearly there were plans involved.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In Australia, punching someone once, a king hit, is an automatic ten year jail sentence. Rape someone, and you can walk. 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

If your misanthropy fails that easily then you aren't nearly as jaded as you think. Poser. :P 2/2

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

stick around, imgur will help you sew it shut again :)

11 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 0

Only if you read the comments. The pictures are often quite positive.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

we like sewing things shut

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Who put these onions all over my phone

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I love this, I always try to give to the less fortunate. It's one of my gf and I's goal to one day start a soup kitchen for the homeless.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

you don't have to lie. shes not here bro

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

yup, she's still working. when she gets home we're gonna bang.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

BTW, what clinches the impact is a sense that this lady will probably actually do just as requested.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The last few seconds of the vid is her yelling "Free roses!" and the other people laughing about it.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are you sure this isn't Keanu Reeves?

11 years ago | Likes 109 Dislikes 1

rofl I thought that when I clicked on it too.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think we may have found our new obsession for the next 24hrs.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That's what came to my mind first.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

That's what came to my mind first.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Plot twist. Guy plans the whole thing and gets laid everyday by someone new for free.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

$140 is pretty expensive for "free".

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not if its a setup and if not $140 is pretty cheap for all that strange he is getting now.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm a grown ass man, and I actually shed a tear at this. Kindness is beautiful.

11 years ago | Likes 231 Dislikes 5

Me too. I mean.... Flee two...two flees... Ahhh you missed them.. What... ?? *cries uncontrollably*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

https://xkcd.com/37/

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

@BroBidenJr is a grown ass-man? Makes sense.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Maybe it was an expression of a preference. We await clarification

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

40yo GAM here. Me too.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Real men don't cry, they just moisturize their epic beard.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

normally I don't get emotional over people, but actually clicking the youtube link and listening to her cry I totally wanted to too.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

an ass man huh? i can relate to that.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Mule people are still people. <3 https://youtu.be/FdolFXcNAH4?t=2m37s

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When I was in El Salvador a little girl gave me a free rose. She was selling them on the street at 2am I wanted to cry.

11 years ago | Likes 177 Dislikes 1

Please tell me u gave her money anyways.

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I wasn't allowed to :(

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

because that nickname

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol thank you

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Now I want to cry.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So you took it? She was selling them, you filthy animal..

11 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 2

Took it for free.. Smh

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

I couldn't give money because that's how they rob you :( I was with people from El Salvador and they told me that is how they get you

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

That actually sounds smart. Especially at 2am. Either that or it's the story of the matchstick girl. Child can't come home till she sells

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Yea :( it was in a sketchy area near strip clubs. So I couldn't give her money or anything. It really broke my heart

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

all flowers kinda deal. Then dies in the cold winter storm of Christmas! Or... rather pleasant night of El Salvador.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Well the temperatures don't get that cold I think her story would be much more tragic involving gang members. I don'twant to think about it

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Was she a giant tree named Groot?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes... She actually sacrificed herself and was reborn at the end of the day

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At the Eiffel Tower around 2am in Feb. there was a lone salesman with cheap trinkets and my friend bought one for 10Euro. I thought he was(1

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(2)crazy b/c we were broke students at the time, but he pointed out that we were the only ppl there, and it was freezing. I felt like an ass

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

sorry i deleted those two responses i couldn't open the rest of your response. Yeah i wouldn't buy something from a shady looking person

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

at odd hours of the night in a place i don't know

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I JUST got back from NY and I'm pissed I didn't see anything like this. All I saw on the subway was a lady singing Gospel music

11 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

last week,in nyc,where i live,i saw a gent pay $35 starbucks tab for a family of tourists from brazil cause their credit cards didn't work.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in New York, there was a dead guy on my train friday night.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

That was Wednesday right? The homeless guy?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i think it says friday

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Upvoted in his honor

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Seriously? That's it? All my NY trips include something like people singing in their underwear while their dog poledances on the train .

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Some guys/girls have all the luck

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait. There was a lady handing out sandwiches and a guy trying to sell bootleg DVDs.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

and a man that enters your car announcing "HELLO LADIES AND GENTLEMAN. I HAVE AIDS." and everyone shifting away

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You misheard. The CEO was just trying to introduce his assistants, because he doesn't want them to feel underappreciated. "Aides."

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I once saw dudes get on the train and shout "GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. WE'RE COLLECTING MONEY FOR [insert charity here]. WE WILL ..."(1)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

SING AND PREFORM FOR YOU TODAY, SO IF YOU FEEL LIKE DONATING, PLEASE DO. AND IF YOU ALL GIVE SOMETHING NOW, WE WILL GO AWAY RIGHT AWAY."

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"And I'm new in town!"

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Once when I was in high school I was walking to my piano lesson and this random woman that I passed handed me a bouquet of flowers 1/?

11 years ago | Likes 717 Dislikes 2

When a strange woman gives you flowers, she's acting on Impulse.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was having a breakdown in a store once, having a terrible time after losing my cousin and a random lady hugged me and comforted me (1)

11 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

And gave me a coin that she said was her lucky coin, it said "one day at a time". She sat and talked to me a little while until I stopped 2

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Was it an AA chip? Because that is a big thing to give.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Crying. It was genuinely the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for me and I will never forget it.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Once when I was in college, I was at Walmart and someone dressed like the statue of liberty came up, handed me a lollipop and said (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 2

"Awww you don't have to cry, it'll be okay," then she hugged me. I hadn't been crying and I wasn't on drugs. Still not entirely (2/3 i lied)

11 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 1

sure what happened that day but I'll never forget it (3/3)

11 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

wat?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That was an emotional rollercoaster of a story. Statue of Liberty, lollipop, hug, what? Haha. That was super rad of her though

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

When you meet someone dressed as the Statue of Liberty handing out lollipops and hugging people, it isn't YOU that's on drugs.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Because "I just seemed like someone who could use a random pick me up". I hadn't been particularly sad or stressed that day but 2/3

11 years ago | Likes 557 Dislikes 0

It was really nice and I sort of teared up about it. I hope to do the same someday.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I had someone do a pay-it-forward when I was buying dinner one night. I had my young baby, it was right before Christmas and I was exhasted

11 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Her random act of kindness made me literally tear up and it genuinely brightened my whole week. It's always stuck with me. 3/3

11 years ago | Likes 556 Dislikes 1

I sat opposite a woman on a tram who pulled a flower out of her bouquet and gave it to me. Made my day, wish I said it

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same! I just awkwardly thanked the woman who gave me the flowers ... I wish I could tell her what it meant to me :-(

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I was so surprised, and so stressed in my head, I didn't even smile properly!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My brother literally strives to do something like this for someone every day. He says he's almost addicted to it in a way. He's good people.

11 years ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 0

What else does he do?

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

he is best people. And everyone would benefit from emulating him.

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

This, even just saying a few kind words to someone can make them feel better for a while. :)

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0