Surprised by a person’s trust in a stranger.

[Chris S]

Somebody in a UK supermarket lent me a Euro for a trolley and told me to put it on top of noticeboard when I'd finished with it. I did but it fell down the back of the noticeboard. I couldn't see him to explain what had happened and I didn't live locally. He probably thinks I walked off with it.

 

[ColinJ]

I spoke to a cyclist who had done a tour of New Zealand. He stayed at a B&B somewhere and got chatting to the couple who ran it. They asked if he was going to see some amazing natural tourist attraction way off his planned route. He said that he would have liked to but he didn't really have time to make the detour on his bike. They said he could take their car and drive there for the day, so he did!

 

[Alex321]

We live in a similar size town and this kind of thing is not too unusual in our experience.

Most recently I was at a local cafe and said to Ms AU that I'd forgotten my bicycle lock; a stranger who was leaving handed me her lock, gave me the code and asked me to leave the lock fixed to the rack when we left.

It's nice to live with a little trust.

Café Velo in Llantwit Major have a rack of bike locks just hanging up inside the door, for customers to use.