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Date Posted: 21/11/07 8:49:06pm
Author: Peter Eveleigh
Subject: Re: the kindness of strangers
In reply to: Barbara 's message, "Re: the kindness of strangers" on 21/11/07 8:10:25pm

>Hi again Peter, good to talk to you again, it's been a
>while hasn't it?
>
>Yes, it's good to remember things like that. I will
>never forget a kind deed that a woman in a motorway
>service station did for me when I was a teenager. I
>had run away from home and was hitchhiking to Devon, I
>had very little money. I got a ride to a service
>station near Watford I think, and I bought a cup of
>tea, it was all I could afford. The woman who had made
>the tea came over to me, I thought she was coming over
>to tell me off for making the tea last so long, I was
>so cold that I didn't want to go back outside. But she
>asked me to come to the counter and select what I
>wanted for breakfast. I told her I couldn't afford it,
>and she just smiled and said it was on the house. I
>have no idea how she knew I was broke, but I will
>never forget what she did.

That's a lovely story.

Hi Barbara. Good to talk to you too. Been about 11 months, roughly, I think. Promised I'd buzz off a while so the thing with a certain someone could cool. Will have to disappear again if he comes back, I reckon.

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