For me it was when I went to Spain, I wanted to explore a bit on my own so I left my family and went on a solo adventure.
About 3-4 hours later I find myself walking up and down the beachside not knowing where the hell i was going.
A couple came up to me, I had my phone with Google maps on it in one hand and two bottles of vodka in the other. They instantly knew what was going on.
They ended up walking me back to my hotel and making sure I got back in my room. I ended up passing out infront of the door and got woke up when my brother couldn’t open the door to get out
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Person from UK’s most wholesome interaction with a stranger is being so drunk they got lost in a foreign country and got helped home.
Keep up the good work.
Depends what you mean by wholesome I guess – but I had a decent tinder interaction that I’m now living with 1.5 years later…….
Helped me through Oslo airport as a “non transfer transit” (basically UK to Oslo with Ryanair and then Oslo to my end Norway destination with SAS), got told by border guy that I couldn’t do the normal internal security stuff as a transfer, but instead had to “leave” the airport and then go through the main security as if I was flying out from Oslo as my starting point. No idea what this meant as never flown one trip with two carriers before, but a super nice guy was also having to do this offered to walk with me.
He could have left me and ran to his connecting flight, but instead walked with me and made sure I got to where I was going; so grateful as I definitely would have gotten lost finding the right route to walk from the arrivals to the main entrance and then to security.
My bag got stopped, and I got held up, so never had a chance to say thank you to him 🥺
In Tokyo a woman approached me and asked if I needed help finding somewhere. I said yes and explained I was looking for a specific train to somewhere.
She not only told me where it was, she walked me all the way there to the exact platform and waited for me to board the train, and even told the staff something (I don’t know what). What a kind woman! She hardly spoke to me the whole time either, it was like she was shy but she still did all of that.
Similarly in Japan I told my hotel receptionist I’d lost my bag in Tokyo (I was at the other side of the country, in Kyoto, when I realised I had lost it). I have no idea how they did it, but the next day my bag was back in my hotel. They had somehow traced it and had it hand delivered to the other side of the country.
Amazing people.
This is really odd, but I remember it. Maybe about 10 years ago?
I put some petrol in my car and went to pay and I was looking to buy a snack so I went round and a woman came up to me but was really awkward and asked if I knew where such and such was, I could tell she was quite nervous. So I told her where it was and she went off. I thought this was wholesome as I thought maybe she was trying to put herself out there and talk to strangers to get rid of her nervousness, as some kind of self help she’d listened to? So if it was that then well done lady I hope you’re doing well and fighting
When I was 18, my friend and I were taking the last tube home from Wimbledon. A seriously creepy guy kept following us into different carriages all the way up the train until we were in the carriage behind the driver (still at Wimbledon). My friend got off the train and knocked on the drivers window to say that someone had been following us and he told us to knock on the driver door if he made us uncomfortable.
It was ok for a few stops as other people joined us in the carriage – but the guy appeared again and started making comments once the carriage was empty. We knocked on the drivers door and he ushered us into the front of the tube for the rest of the journey & when we got to our station he let us out first before opening the tube doors.
I’ll always be incredibly appreciative – although the first part of the story isn’t so wholesome, the driver really restored our faith in humanity (and it was v fun riding in the front of the tube)!
I was once on the top of a mountain, all alone. I was sad, very sad and as emotion was taking over a bloke appeared from absolutely nowhere and just started telling me about the plants he could see, we walked along together for a while and he pointed at various flowers etc as we went. He highlighted so much beauty that was all around and it lifted me right out of my darkness. I still can’t be 100% sure he existed.
When i was 8 my step dad took me to york for the day. Once we got there my dad got his foot stuck under the chair in front on the coach he got agitated by it and passed out and started to have a fit. These 2 old ladies took me with them whilst dad got carted off to the hospital. I ended up just walking around with these old women shopping until later in the afternoon we randomly bumped into my dad walking around looking for us. We then got something to eat and got back on the coach and went home.
This was before the days of mobile phones. I don’t even know why or remember why I didn’t go into the ambulance with him.
I guess this sort of thing wouldn’t happen now days though.
Back in the late 90s I was driving up the A1(M) one sunny afternoon. I was just north of York in the outside lane when a car level with me moved from the middle lane to the outside, so, exactly where I was.
Instead of beeping so she knew I was there I panicked. I was yelling at her that I was there but she didn’t see me at all. I ended up in the central reservation, which thankfully is super wide there, sitting in the drivers seat screaming at the (heavy) traffic to stop as I had zero idea how I would get out.
First thing I knew, a farmer who was working on a field at the side of the opposite carriageway appeared to make sure I was ok – he literally ran across three lanes of traffic to check on me.
And two drivers who had seen what happened actually stopped further up and came back down to help. So these three guys got my car over to the hard shoulder, checked it was fit to at least get me to the nearest mechanic, and gave me their details in case I needed a witness for police or insurance.
Honestly, if they hadn’t stopped I’d probably still be there panicking.
I never did anything to say thank you because I couldn’t think of anything that would match how grateful I was.
If it happened now, I’d a) write a letter to say how thankful I was and b) I WOULD HAVE BEEPED MY FRIGGING HORN BEFORE ENDING UP IN THE CENTRAL RESERVATION. Someone asked a few days later why I didn’t and I was like…. that’s actually a very good question. It genuinely didn’t occur to me (also I’m not sure I could have wrested my fingers from their death grip on the steering wheel to be fair).
Ended up sat next to a woman on a train years ago. She bought tea from the trolley but her card wouldn’t connect due to bad signal on the train. I paid for her tea and we got chatting about our lives. I explained that I was going to London to see my friend who had just been broken up with. When we got to our station she bought me chocolates to give to my friend. Really nice lady.
I was once sat by a river listening to music and a woman stopped to ask if I was ok. She thought I was suicidal but I just like sitting outdoors. Was kind of wholesome I guess.
Today I sold something to a fellow wood worker on marketplace, and he offered me access to his rented unit if I needed more space after seeing how tiny my shop was, didn’t haggle either just turned up exactly when he said he would and paid what I asked for it
Whilst backpacking in South America I met this welsh man on a beach, we just exchanged hellos.
Anyway by chance I bumped into him again at Caracas airport, I had miscalculated my money and after paying the fees to exit the country I was left with nothing to get me back to London. I was 18 and it was a bit overwhelming and I was a bit upset and felt all alone. He bought me a Burger King and chatted with me before catching his flight.
It sounds small but it meant so much and I always wonder where in the world he is now.
A friend and I had a coffee with a very lovely West Indian guy. I told him I was from Cyprus and he taught me all about the history of Cyprus under British rule. A very well spoken man with a vast wealth of knowledge. Wish I could find him again.