World Kindness Day: Your Random Acts of Kindness

Dose up on some oxytocin, because today is World Kindness Day. Clairsy & Lisa mark it by hearing all your feel-good stories of random acts of kindness.

Have your heart warmed, and faith instilled in the good of humans as we hear our listeners' random acts of kindness stories!

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is World Kindness Day.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
World Kindness Day was introduced in nineteen ninety eight by
the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of nations Kindness in Gos.
It is observed in many countries, including, of course Australia, Canada, Nigeria,
the United States, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Italy.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
In India, and I.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Could go on and on, couldn't I can you name
the ones not involved the Olympic, the Olympic ceremony.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I could, but that would get very awkward.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It could have I think we all know absolutely it's
not particularly kind. But look, we want to talk about
random acts of kindness. Maybe you were on the receiving
end of one, maybe you witnessed one. Maybe you were
the performer of the random acts.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
A lot of people are much happy to give them
receive It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yes, anything recently.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
One country, not recently, but many years ago. A good
radio friend of mine, and you will know the name
Dean Callot. Was that real charming gentleman?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
What a lovely, lovely man radio salesman.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
But he was so much more than that, and good
mate he went. He knew how much I loved the
band Steely Dan, and when Steely Dan finally toured Australia,
Dino went and lined up or waited outside. I think
it was the charity or one of the hotels in
the city for hours so he could get my favorite album,
Gaucho Side. I didn't ask him to do it. Do
it my favorite album Gaucho. He got Donald Fagan and

(01:24):
Walter Becker, who were pretty reclusive kind of blokes, and
they scribbled in front of this album for me. It's
in my office. It's framed in my office now and
we've lost Dean Kelch into that bastard cancer.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, many years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
You can you memory time I walk in my office
and see that, I go, what a gesture. That was
random acts of kinds.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's lovely. We love the text.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And Dave from Midland said a couple of days ago
at the car wash, a guy was vacuuming his car
next to us, and after he finished, he gave us
the remaining time left on the vacuums.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Sweet, that's nice.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Pay it forward, yeah, that's before people clean it forward.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
People seemed to be using the apso loot more for
their parking now, but when it was most people with
a little paper ticket on with extra time. It's not
going to change your life, is it's got to change
someone else's day. It's to willok and go Caroline.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Hi, how are you?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Caroline? What's your random act of kindness?

Speaker 6 (02:14):
Many years ago, there was a lady catching the bus
at the same stop as me on a regular basis,
and one morning came clear that she'd forgotten her purse. Yeah,
I had no money to get on the bus, no ticket.
I happened to have too, so I lent her mind,
got her on the bus on a regular basisues the
rest of that ticket, and we ended up sitting together
on the way into the city every day, and as

(02:34):
a result, we became very good friends and ended up
with a job opportunity at the workplace I worked. She
wanted a career change, and she ended up working with
me for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's correct, minor actor.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
That was a really good friendship.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's like one of those sliding doors moments, you know,
it just changes everything, sliding kindness moment.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
That's brilliant.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Love it, Carolyne.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Thanks, have a great day, well you two.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I had a friend tell me the other day that
she and her boyfriend Matt when she had come phone
didn't work to pay for a coffee. Yeah, right, and
a guy behind her said, if you don't mind, I'll
get it.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's okay. And then now dating, and I.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Thought, well, is sure what that was?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
This is like the City's Waiting movie where Glenn what's
his name paid for a coffee and then.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
Mind you, there was a trouble relationship right there in
that movie.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
But yeah, they're now dating, and I just went, that's
such a cool story.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Debbie and Thornley, Hello, good morning, guys. What's your story?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Well, I had a random act of kindness to me. Yes,
a few years ago. Now, I had a little minute
to colleague little Shelby. Yeah, he was very old and
on a weekend he's back end collapsed, and I thought, oh,
I'm going to have to take him to the.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
VAT on Monday.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
I know it's gonna you have to do that, make
that decision. And but I was only working casual at
the time, and I'm thinking, how do I get the
money to do this? So I put a closet up
in one of the groups I was in on Facebook
and suggestions what can I do? And everyone said, oh,
you could do center pay and all this. So I

(04:03):
organized all that and I got right took the dog
the next on the Monday with my daughter and.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
Yeah, I did what I had to do.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah. And I went back about two weeks later and
I said, look, I haven't taken any money out of
my bank to pay for this. I don't know what's happened.
And they said, well, your bill's paid, and I said,
what do you mean? And a nurse from the VET
had put some money in. A lady who was a
surgery when we actually took him in put the money in.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Really, that's apologized.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
That Facebook in my group got together and they paid
my whole bill. O.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
That's that's that is a random acts.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Restore your faith.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
It does does.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, so I got to Yeah, I got to do
what I needed to do for him, and I bought
it for his ashes home and put a post up
and just thanked everyone and everyone said cry really often
you here's something of findness though, and I believe in
it paying forward and I've just paid it forward every moment.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well yeah, I still get emotional, Yeah when they.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Go over that rainbow bridge there, but you know, it's
it's hard enough without adding, you know, stupid finance issues
into the equation.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I hate when finance has to be involved in emotion.
It's horrible.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Out of the farm.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, mind your debby.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's great. Thanks everyone who helped out with that situation.
That one is a proper random act of kindness.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Look, I'm not the only person who does this list,
but I do. I don't mind if I'm walking into
a shopping center grabbing someone's trolley if they've just unloaded
their stuff. Yeah, but I do a thing where I
wait to see if they see if they're going to
go take the trolley back. Because those people are just
dump it somewhere. I don't want to help them.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
They're the worst kind of people.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
If I see someone do that, I don't help.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Might hit my car.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
But if I see someone who's spun around and they're
deliberately heading back to take it back to the trolley place,
then I'll go, oh, look, I'm heading that way.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I'll take it for you.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
And people are normally pretty sweet, but the dumpers, I'll
keep an eye out for you.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah, but you will.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Got a couple of texts that i'd love to think
are maybe connected. Norell says, a few days ago at Coal's,
I let an older couple go ahead of me at
the checkout, as they had less items than me. The
guy in front of them proceeded to put their items
through and paid for their shopping, and the couple was
shocked and teary and thankful, and it made me feel
good for days. Then we've got a text a little

(06:22):
later from Brian and Naranda who says, I like to
pay for some senior shopping at Coals every week because
it's expensive these days, and to see them counting the
cost in the checkout line, I wish I could do more.
I wonder if Brian is the guy that.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
That was in the que ahead of Norell. I'm gonna,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know that that could be three reason it is
check out separate separation right there. Yeah, good mate, what's
your random active kindness was on.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
The receiving end, yes, which was nice. By the time
Friday comes and you know how you've just had an
up of everything. I like, get a couple of beef,
cheese and bacon pies if I can from a certain place.
I'm not going to put it on air here because
you'd never get one again. Yeah, but anyway, the last

(07:15):
three times, I think the lady behind the counter has
seen my disappointment, Like the ones I want aren't there,
and I mean they're vegetarian and vegan and chicken ones
are nice, but yeah, it's not not what I really
was yet on Friday. Yeah, any yeah, anyway, I went
in there. I was late, and I knew I was

(07:35):
late last Friday forgetting them because after lunch they're always gone,
the good ones, and she actually put to a side
for us without I just did that, so it was
just awesome. I can't believe it.

Speaker 8 (07:49):
Regular it's a lovely yeah, and it doesn't sound like much,
but you know when you got it, and it was
just like winning an Olympic gold medal or something, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Bread is better.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Mate when it's Friday and it's pie. Clock absolutely love it.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
It's just unbelievable. Anyway, hopefully she keeps doing it my
usual time.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
See how I mean, you can tell how happy it made.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
You're still talking about it. And I'm jealous because he
got the pies.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
And it's often just a little thing.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
He got his favorites, and that's really good business. Because
he's telling a very.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Good business because he probably bought a vanilla slice as well.
Let's go find Christina and Alan brook Alo.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Hello, good, they're great. What have you got for us
on Wild Kindness Day?

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Yeah, well thanks for having me on the station, guys,
I hope you're having a great day. So I went
to Bali earlier this year. It's my first trip to Bali.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (08:51):
I was down at true To Beach and there's a
really lovely ladies who was massaged my beat every day,
and I booked her up at five pm and asked
her about her family and her life. She used to
work in hospitality, but during COVID she lost her employment
and was really struggling. And she's got a few boys

(09:13):
aged from nine to sixteen, or I think one could
be a little bit younger as well. And she said
that her son would like to go to university, so
she tries to save up a few dollars every day.
And before I left, I said, look, I've had a
bit of a think I would like to sponsor your
son in university, and so I do. So he's finishing

(09:39):
high school this year, but I've already started sponsoring and
he was able to buy a laptop for his birthday
a few weeks ago that he would need for university's
and he's planning to go into it. So I'm really
happy that I can hopefully try and break the cycle

(09:59):
of poverty in the family to get something through university.
And then I'll see if I'm able to get be
able to help a range to break him out here
at some stage where he graduates in four years. So
you know, I'm not sure. It's a bit down the track.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
That's beautiful, Christine. A great day, great day from up
in ellen Brook, Christia. Let's go down to Singleton. Craig
is there? Good morning, crag yea clazy How good mate, Craig.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
What's your act of kindness?

Speaker 10 (10:27):
I was at the Child's gardener Hospital, just been in
the last couple of hours with my father and just
head down to the car park. My place was all
over the head and I couldn't pay for parking.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
I didn't know how to do it.

Speaker 10 (10:41):
I just and this guy behind me just put his
over over me and paid paid for his card twenty bucks.
I think I just turned around, gave him a big
hug and broke down. Yeah, yeah, I knew amazing.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
He probably knew what was going on, eh, A rough idea.

Speaker 9 (10:57):
Oh, he had no idea, but you had some idea.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, some things, some moments are just unspoken, aren't they.
And I already understood exactly what was happening. That's beautiful, pray.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
It's pretty cool in a tough situation.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Made me go.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, through the fine. Thanks Craig, You