Someone you don’t have a relationship with, or even know their name… What was your most recent selfless thing you did for other people?
Heimlich maneuver on a nurse.
I think you won this thread.
There was this Chinese girl in the lobby of the hospital I was getting some testing done at. She was stuck there. I offered her an Uber, but she declined and asked to use my phone instead. She called her mom and left a voicemail. I left and her mom called me back. I told her her daughter left her a voicemail and that she was waiting at the hospital. Neither of them spoke English very well. They were both very kind. Not a big help, but it felt nice to do it.
informed a random dude that his broken macbook he was selling for cheap is easily fixed with a software patch
Probably giving some advice here on Lemmy. But I try to do some small things here and there. Help strangers who get lost at the jungle of German train stations and so on. Generally works out well. And I also get help or advice in return, (for example once I struggle with a ticket machine in a foreign country), so it goes both ways.
It’s a funny sort of feeling, no? Giving someone valuable information that could help them sort out some minor/major issue IRL for free.
I gave away a bunch of trees I’d raised from seed. They were Metasequoias, long thought extinct and known only through fossils. I’d never seen any locally and thought it might be fun to get them going again. They were native here ~40 million years ago.
I gave 15 USD to someone who looked really down on their luck and (seem to me) to be genuinely at their wits end
Not something I did, but someone did for me just yesterday that was very nice.
I was driving home through rural-ish Texas and had just stopped at a bakery to get some coffee and absentmindedly left it, along with my wife’s favorite water bottle, on the roof of the car when I started to pull out.
Guy in a pickup across the street pulled into the turn lane and stopped in front of me (not a busy road) rolled down his window and pointed over the roof of his car.
I was super confused for a moment, but got the picture and was able to pull off again and grab the water bottle. The coffee was KIA.
Anyway, thanks to that random stranger.
Last thing was one of the ones I have the opportunity to do most. No words necessary, just a knock on the glass and gesticulation.
Some chick was standing outside of the bus shelter at which I’d just arrived, and I saw her Pikachu backpack with tiny unknown weeaboo characters hanging from the zipper’s pull-tabs hanging low. She’d been walking around with it open, something that’s happened to me before for hours on end without anyone telling me. Couldn’t figure out why I’d knocked on the glass to get her attention until I pointed at the backpack full open, and mimicking a zip-unzip motion with my hands. She clued in and closed it, easy peasy, no valuables lost.
When I left my wilderness camp spot I made it look like nobody had been there.
If that doesn’t count, then it’s that I cut fallen trees off the trail.
I let them adore my cute son and when they smiled, I smiled back.
