A Random Act of Kindness

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I'd like to share a little story with you all about how people don't trust random acts of kindness.

Yesterday, my family and I ended up going to church, and my step-dad and I ended up splitting off with the youth group there. (He's a leader of the youth group.) The group of about 12 people ended up going to a park for about 40-50 minutes. We had a cooler with us, filled with cold bottles of water that we tried to hand out for anyone who need a good drink, from running around in the park, or to relieve them abit from the heat.

We would take two bottles at a time, and head out asking people if they wanted a free bottle of water from the church. Out of about 20 people asked, about 17 took the bottles, and about 15 of those people didn't drink it, or just sat their bottle down and didn't even open it. The last 3 or 5 utterly refused to even take one bottle. We still had at least 4 bottles left, that we couldn't even give away. Over half the kids in the group came back and said the people didn't look them in the eye, and didn't smile, or even try. 2 people said a sincere thank you, and the others just pushed away with, "...Thanks." And didn't talk anymore.

So, what do you think? :P
 
I hate it when people are like that.

Me and my friend once tried to help an eldery lady down some stairs once and she freaked because she thought we were going to mug her afterwards!

And I also helped a man who dropped alot of fruit onto the pavement whislt he was trying to set up his outdoor display. I recieved no thank you and customers and passers by couldnt believe it! I moved more then him and nothing.

Like also holding doors and moving aside for some people. Some say thank you, others dont bother. So if they dont say thank you whislt Im holding the door, I let it close on them and now I only move for eldery people, pregnant women or people with prams. They say thank you always.

I truly do hate it when you go out of your way to help someone and they just brush you aside.
 
In Chichester(city near me which I hang out with friends and go to school there) the people are so rude and dont say thank you or anything but back home{Selsey}, everyone is kind and they say thankyou and say hello to you and smile even if they havent even met you before, if only more people where like that.
 
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But people have been rude before the media terrorist activity.
They cant use that as an excuse, some people dont have any manners whatsoever.
 
I suppose you have a fair point, sephirothalpha but surely only not trust things too much in big towns and cities, I mean in little villages and towns, are they really gonna bomb there?
 
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~SapphireStar~ said:
But people have been rude before the media terrorist activity.
They cant use that as an excuse, some people dont have any manners whatsoever.
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True, but you never know a person's history. He/she might not have been told any manners or might be scared of strangers for some reasons.
 
Course it does, shows respect also.

I remember an Asian woman trying to get my 70 year old grandmother to give her the seat because she had a baby and pram?! My grandmother refused to move and a Jewish man near by said that the woman should be ashamed of herself! She eventually sat down on anoter seat, but I believe my grandmother to be in the right for not moving.
 
^ Definitely, people who are post-natal can still stand up, and not worry about getting hurt.:/

I remember once I was on the bus and an elderly man and his wife came on the bus, he couldn't get on so I had to help his wife lift him onto a chair.
 
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^ Definitely, people who are post-natal can still stand up, and not worry about getting hurt.:/

I remember once I was on the bus and an elderly man and his wife came on the bus, he couldn't get on so I had to help his wife lift him onto a chair.
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On a note completely and utterly unrelated to the topic at all, that is the most hilarious sig I've ever seen.

As for random acts of kindness, I'm not really the random acts of kindness kind of guy. But I think a lot of the reason why we're so hesitant to either offer or accept help from a complete stranger is that we're not comfortable with them, and in this day and age you never know with some people. You have muggers, rapists, con artists, and everything else in between. We're taught as children from the very first moment we can walk and talk to never trust strangers. Don't accept candy or any other offerings, don't get in the minivan even if they say they know your parents, etc. I think a lot of that reservation and mistrust carried over with us into adulthood. Our society just isn't a very trusting one, and unfortunately it's out of necessity.
 
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