Taxi driver goes above and beyond

Lovely story

Urmston Yes, especially as he ended up with a very wet cab interior! We were so apologetic, but he just laughed it off, saying that it wouldn't matter as he wouldn't be getting any more customers that day as everyone would be staying indoors!

What a lovely story - quite heartwarming. Well done that kind and thoughtful taxi driver.

Many moons ago when the children were young, we took the ferry across to the island to visit a theme park type venue. The weather was atrocious and we missed the bus. We set off on foot and walked for ages. All four of us were soaking wet, freezing cold and decided that,as the weather had set in, we'd be better off going back to our campsite on the mainland.

So,we set off on the long trudge back towards the ferry. A taxi driver, going the other way, tooted us, turned round and offered to take us back to the ferry. We told him that we couldn't afford the fare all that way. "What fare?" he replied.

So, four very wet people were rescued and were so grateful to him.

We never did go back to the theme park!

Quite a few years ago now when we were living in a "rough" area, I got a taxi home after a night out with friends. The driver told me he would wait until I was safely inside the house before leaving.

Some years ago I was cycling to work on a damp dreary day. A black cab driver initially hooted at me at some lights and when I ignored him, pulled over in front of me and made me stop. He got out of his cab , came towards me with a rolled up newspapers and said "you're making a right old mess of your clothes, you need a mudguard" and promptly manufactured one with the paper and wedged it over the back wheel. i did thank him for his concern but didn't have the heart to say the clothes were my old cycling gear and I had a full change waiting at work. The newspaper was a London cabbies one so afterwards I wrote to them about his help and how touched I'd been at his concern.

Thank goodness for that. There are some fine people in the world as well as those scamming b!"£$%^&s I think the good outweigh the bad.

Probably the best post of the day. It's made mine anyway.

I went ino my bank recently to transfer a gift of money to an African friend. Her account is in her home country but she is currently studying in USA so an unusual situation. I was very impressd when the teller took great care to make sure I actually knew this person and wasn’t being scammed. Yes we mustn’t forget the many good people there are around.

Heartwarming to read.

Compare this with the thread about the postman.
Would we have preferred the taxi driver to “mind his own business”? Was his behaviour intrusive? I certainly don’t think so and feel sorry for a postman who is just trying to be friendly.
Some of us need to guard against getting grumpier in our old age

What a wonderful thing to do. There are good people around.

Great to know that there are still good people out there. We get to hear so much about the bad ones its nice to hear the other side.