what is the best thing you did for a total stranger?

Question

mine was to get a guy out of his bed/room fire which was upstairs on top of the bar i was drinking in one sat afternoon ,before he nearly suffocated.

and frazzeled of course,when the fireman arrived and put out the upstairs fire,the chap in charge asked me how i knew what to do ie:fall to the floor and walk on your elbows and stomach under the smoke which is 1and a half to 2 feet max height from the floor,blah blah blah
so i told him i see fireman do that when my next door neighbour was killed in her kitchen by fire one morning,all i could do was call out to her along with other neighbours because i couldn;t get into the thick twirling blanket of toxic smoke
a fireman quickly come running up jumped flat to the floor and went inside
the upshot of the story was she died in seconds in her kitchen ,but i still felt i could have done more for her,so when 5years later in the bar that fire upstairs started i wasnt going to just run around panicking i took the bull by the horns and done exactly what i see that fireman do-and won the fire[1-1]so one all now ,i hope it stays that way but things have this habit of happenin in 3s in my life

Answer 1

I was in the grocery store and some woman in the aisle that I was in collapsed and started having a seizure. I ran over and administered CPR and had 911 on my speaker phone. I also stayed by her side until the EMT's arrived because the store manager was not being helpful and I didn't know how coherent she was as she was not speaking or responding to voice. I did not want to leave a young woman alone with that male manager as who knows how creepy he was. Fortunately she was OK in the long run.

Answer 2

This past Thanksgiving, I was working (I work on a psychiatric unit) and I had to go across the street to the hospital pharmacy to pick up some meds for one of our patients (The psychiatric units are in their own building across the street from the main hospital). I went down to the basement to the pharmacy, got the meds, and came back up to the first floor to go back across the street. I saw an older man ;who looked rather tired and like he wasn't feeling so well, in a wheelchair and he was pushing himself to where he was going. He asked me if I could help him down to the ER because that's where his car was parked at and it was a long way down to the ER (if your pushing yourself in a wheelchair) so I agreed and started pushing him in his wheelchair. As we walked down to the ER, he told me that his wife had to come to the ER the night before and had been admitted to one of the floors. He was just leaving to go home to get some sleep (at this point it was about 9am), but he had stayed all night to make sure his wife was okay. I thought that was so sweet of him to stay that long, even though he obviously wasn't in good health himself.

Answer 3

I grabbed a kid (a couple years younger than myself) who was drowning, and shoved him up on the dock. The waves were more than he could handle. I would have been 11 or 12. He was probably 9 or 10.

Answer 4

Thats really nice! I've never really had an opportunity to do anything that amazing. I think I've only helped elderly people unload their carts at grocery stores : )

Answer 5

Gave her some insect repellent when mosquitos were eating her up in a national park and ruining her experience.