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[CatTess]

I just experienced a random act of kindness and thought I'd share it. I just got back from work and it's raining pretty hard. It wasn't raining when I left for work this morning so I was stuck without a raincoat or umbrella. Standing at the light waiting to cross the street I realise that the guy in back of me has shifted over slightly so that I was under his umbrella too. He accompanied me across the street and all the way down toward my building, and would have taken me right to my door had I not insisted that I was okay to walk the rest of the way. No hidden agendas, the guy didn't speak a word of English and didn't ask anything in return. He was just being nice to a soggy foreign girl.

[Real Reality]

[peppergirl]

Happened to me to last year, no hidden agenda either. Just a Korean girl being nice to a soggy foreign girl.

[Squid]

I'd help a soggy foreign girl.

[Randall Flagg]

[Derrek]

What you didn't see were the cell phone pics he was taking of your butt!

Yeah, some people do nice things here, just like anywhere.

[Ya-ta Boy]

A similar thing happened to me--twice. I got off the bus with a big shopping bag in each hand. Started walking to the corner. Two middle/high school boys speeded up to hold their umbrellas over my head. We walked to the corner and waited then up the street to my building. And I'm not a girl.

Another time I got off the bus and started riding my scooter home. Stopped at a red light and heard a voice from across the street. An elderly man came hustling across the street. I was hoping the light would change before he could get there because I figured he was drunk. He wasn't. He took his baseball cap off and stuck it on my head. Then waved when I rode off.

These random acts of kindness are fairly common in Korea and make it one of the nicer places I've lived.

[Real Reality]

[SuperFly]

I'm a guy and it used to happen to me all the time when in crowds, waiting for a taxi, etc. I returned the favor for others when I had my umbrella with me later on...

[Swiss James]

I've had that happen to me several times, and a friend was once caught in the rain when a car pulled up beside her, someone got out, gave her an umbrella and drove off.

Please bear in mind this was in a major international city.

[indytrucks]

[poddubny]

[sillywilly]

I had people do countless nice things for me and my son. Mostly it was altruisticly. He got free stuff, people held him on their laps on crowded subways, one guy in Seoul led me and my friends to the first Dave's ESL get-together, when I was completely lost( It took him a long time and then he just took off once we'd found it), free baby-sitting (sweet, kind lady saved my life. If it hadn't been for her and her family I would have gone bonkers)Got taken out for my birthday to an expensive bar ( Russian dancers.. kinda strange but still generous).. Got free eggs! The list goes on.

[SuperFly]