Some people are so nice..

[C.Ann]

About a week and a half ago, I sent out some photos to be developed.. Yesterday an elderly couple came knocking at my DD's door (where I'm living).. Seems they have the same last name as mine and also happen to use York photo labs - where I sent my film.. Somehow my photos were sent to their house (on the other side of town) with the elderly womans name rather than mine.. After opening the photos, the woman realized they weren't hers and upon seeing the photos of my granddaughter decided there was no way she was going to chance sending them back to York - she and her husband would just HAVE to find the proper owner because "that could be someones little daughter or granddaughter"..

So - they tracked me down - trekked all the way over here so I would have my photos - and then the poor woman was apologizing all over the place because she had "opened" them.. I couldn't believe it!!! I assured her there was NO apology necessary and thanked her and her DH over and over for making a special trip over here to deliver the photos..

I thought that was SOOOOO sweet! I just wanted to HUG them!!

Oh - and I also got their phone# in case THEIR photos show up here..

 

[smilie]

That was a very kind thing for them to do! How thoughtful.

 

[BelleMcNally]

About a week and a half ago, I sent out some photos to be developed.. Yesterday an elderly couple came knocking at my DD's door (where I'm living).. Seems they have the same last name as mine and also happen to use York photo labs - where I sent my film.. Somehow my photos were sent to their house (on the other side of town) with the elderly womans name rather than mine.. After opening the photos, the woman realized they weren't hers and upon seeing the photos of my granddaughter decided there was no way she was going to chance sending them back to York - she and her husband would just HAVE to find the proper owner because "that could be someones little daughter or granddaughter"..

So - they tracked me down - trekked all the way over here so I would have my photos - and then the poor woman was apologizing all over the place because she had "opened" them.. I couldn't believe it!!! I assured her there was NO apology necessary and thanked her and her DH over and over for making a special trip over here to deliver the photos..

I thought that was SOOOOO sweet! I just wanted to HUG them!!

Oh - and I also got their phone# in case THEIR photos show up here..

This made me smile. We live in such a fast-paced world sometimes that people forget how nice some extra kindness and human contact can be.

People like the couple who borught back your pictures make my day.

 

[cardaway]

This is happening more and more since people are using the internet and have to have things sent to them.

A few months ago I received an ebay item (autographed photo) I won and a packaged photo I didn't win. The second envelope had no ship to address (had fallen off, probaly during the local sort), only the same return address. My guess was that the photo was won by somebody close to my house and the post office assumed the two went together. I was right. I did a search on the item won in the auction and found who won.

The person was quite confused on how I got the item, but happy to get their A-Rod photo.

 

[Mister Incredible]

When we went to pick up our digital prints at Walmart, we received someone's new baby photos. I brought them back to the counter and the woman said, "Oh well, nothing we can do." I wouldn't take that for an answer. So I took the pictures and played a little CSI. In one of the shots I was able to look close enough to see the name of the hospital on a workers uniform. Then there was a picture of the new baby with her name and weight. I called the hospital and talked to one of the nurses, they thought I was crazy. I finally said, "Look, get in touch with the family and give them my phone number."

The next day the father called me and said his wife was crying she was so happy. She thought the pictures were gone forever. I mailed them back.

If I left them at Walmart, they would have found the trash barrel.

 

[C.Ann]

When we went to pick up our digital prints at Walmart, we received someone's new baby photos. I brought them back to the counter and the woman said, "Oh well, nothing we can do." I wouldn't take that for an answer. So I took the pictures and played a little CSI. In one of the shots I was able to look close enough to see the name of the hospital on a workers uniform. Then there was a picture of the new baby with her name and weight. I called the hospital and talked to one of the nurses, they thought I was crazy. I finally said, "Look, get in touch with the family and give them my phone number."

The next day the father called me and said his wife was crying she was so happy. She thought the pictures were gone forever. I mailed them back.

If I left them at Walmart, they would have found the trash barrel.

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What a wonderful thing to do!! I wouldn't have known where to start in tracking down the rightful owners on that one.. You deserve a BIG pat on the back!!!!!!!!!

 

[C.Ann]

I did a search on the item won in the auction and found who won.

The person was quite confused on how I got the item, but happy to get their A-Rod photo.

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Wouldn't it be great if we could all "go that extra mile" for others "just because"??

Good job!

 

[Galahad]

We've become pretty good friends with a neighbor we otherwise wouldn't likely even know. They live a few doors down but their house number is very similar to ours. We get each others' mail all the time. I think poeple are generally friendlier than you'd expect. It's funny that it surprises us, IMO.

 

[malibuconlee]

I like this thread. Lots of warm fuzzies!!

 

[C.Ann]

We've become pretty good friends with a neighbor we otherwise wouldn't likely even know. They live a few doors down but their house number is very similar to ours. We get each others' mail all the time. I think poeple are generally friendlier than you'd expect. It's funny that it surprises us, IMO.

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I don't think I would have been quite so surprised if they lived just down the street - or even in the same neighborhood - but they were from way across town and "could" have taken the easy way out and just mailed them back to York..

 

[Missy1961]

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Wouldn't it be great if we could all "go that extra mile" for others "just because"??

Good job!

This is a great thread--it is so great to read positive things.

 

[C.Ann]

This is a great thread--it is so great to read positive things.

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Okay then... So who ELSE has had something extra nice done for them - or have gone that extra mile for someone else?

 

[cardaway]

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Okay then... So who ELSE has had something extra nice done for them - or have gone that extra mile for someone else?

I had somebody hand me our waterproof camera after it had come off my wrist in the BB lazy river without my noticing. Not sure how long it was off my wrist, but it was at the end of the day and the thing was full of our pictures from BB and TL. I would have been really bummed had it been lost.

Turns out the people who found it went around asking each person if they had lost their camera.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

OK......this is a good one, I think, and involves my local post office..

I was in picking up my mail at my PO Box....I had some jewelry with me that I had not put away yet, it was in like a little purse. I took it out of my pocketbook and set it down and forgot it. Someone, I have never found out who, turned it in.. It could have been quite a haul for someone. And then the post office held it for me, someone there could have gone through it and selected some choice pieces, but it was all there..

I could not find out who turned it in, I did, however, reward the person who handed it to me with a little gift and then I rewarded the whole post office with lots of coffee from Dunkin Donuts, muffins, bagels, donuts...etc for their coffee break that day..

It is a good story with a happy ending.

 

[C.Ann]

OK......this is a good one, I think, and involves my local post office..

I was in picking up my mail at my PO Box....I had some jewelry with me that I had not put away yet, it was in like a little purse. I took it out of my pocketbook and set it down and forgot it. Someone, I have never found out who, turned it in.. It could have been quite a haul for someone. And then the post office held it for me, someone there could have gone through it and selected some choice pieces, but it was all there..

I could not find out who turned it in, I did, however, reward the person who handed it to me with a little gift and then I rewarded the whole post office with lots of coffee from Dunkin Donuts, muffins, bagels, donuts...etc for their coffee break that day..

It is a good story with a happy ending.

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See? There ARE still "good" people out there.. Sometimes we just have to look a little harder to find them..