You know sometimes people are just so so nice.
I had such a lovely experience yesterday that I thought
I’d share it with you.
I had a parcel that I wanted to post to Australia. It was just one of those ordinary tasks that needed to be done. But have you ever looked at the cost of posting to Australia. It is really expensive.
So I did my research and knew if I kept the weight below 1 kg I was OK. Packed up the gifts – weighing as I went – success .996 kg.
Off I trot to the Post Office, but when the girl there weighed the parcel it had suddenly gone up to 1.12 kg.
I told the girl I would take it home and repackage. She’d have none of it…. she undid the packing, cut off some of the internal cardboard, taped it all up again, making sure it was under the 1 kg.
This took her a good 10 minutes.
She didn’t have to.
But wasn’t that the sweetest thing to do.
So major major thank you to the lovely staff in Portumna Post Office. You made my day yesterday.
Have you had someone do something nice for you?
A Year In Redwood 
What a sweet postal clerk!
Several months ago I was buying a sheet of white shelving. I needed it cut down into five different pieces of three varying lengths and widths. The hardware store normally gives you two cuts for free but the kind clerk did all my cuts and didn’t charge me anything. I was so surprised and so grateful that I gave him a big hug! Think that gesture surprised the heck out of him 🙂
Love it Paula! We should all be giving hugs to nice staff! 🙂
It’s lovely when people go that extra mile for you, especially when it’s not a part of their job, she could just as easily have sent you home to do it yourself! What a nice person 🙂
When I first moved to Dublin I lived along the route of the number 11 bus, but one night I got the 11a without knowing it didn’t go to my stop. I got a bit of a fright when the bus reached its terminus and all the lights switched out! So I rushed down to the driver and explained my predicament, asking him which direction to walk to get me home. Instead of directing me he switched the bus back on and drove me to my stop! It was so nice and unexpected, but I guess he felt sorry for a lost girl from the country who didn’t know the city very well yet lol.
Eadaoin,
Thank you for the lovely comment. I guess it is so seldom that people ‘go that extra mile’ these days (now I sound like my mother!!!)
Margaret