Surprised by a person’s trust in a stranger.

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SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
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Back when I used to pay for prescription charges I was at our GP surgery (pharmacy 'in-house') and I went to collect a 1 item prescription but had forgotten my wallet containing my card (pre-phone-wallet days!)

A stranger offered to lend me a tenner (the cost might have been £6 or £7 back then) to pay for it and just gave me his address so that I could return* it! Didn't want any details from me, either.

*I did.
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
When I was the stranger...

In the mid 80s I lived in New York. One evening I was getting cash out of an ATM when I met a very flustered Scottish student, trying in vain to get cash out on his British bank card. I lent him $40 to pay for his YMCA or whatever. I forget the details. People I told were certain I'd been scammed, but if he was a scam artist he was also a supernaturally brilliant actor with his performance as a confused scared student.

Anyway it seemed for a while that the cynics were right, but after a few months I got a letter from him with the $40 apologising because he had to wait for his travel expenses to come through.
 

Fastpedaller

Über Member
As I read the OP I thought it was going to result in having to give his address as 'that's the way we invoice'.
Many years ago I was in my garage which adjoined others used by neighbours - I'd only recently moved there. A young lad was outside the next garage and his moped had run out of petrol. I asked if he was the neighbour's Brother to which he replied 'yes'. I gave him some petrol and he said he'd repay me. He never returned, and she didn't have a Brother.
 
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