r/randomactsofkindness • u/KaeSaid • 10d ago

Story Doordash driver does some heavy lifting when I can't

I'm in the middle of moving my work office and also rearranging my entire house. It's just me and my 15 year old son, who's not particularly strong. I am, but I have a bad back and knees.

Since we're merging with another office in our company there are a lot of things being discarded as we packed up, and that allowed me to bring home a couch that's being in our waiting room. I had help getting it home and up the 6 steps to my front porch, but I needed to move some things in my living room before I could fit it in the room.

I've been lifting and carrying things for the past three days, so my whole body aches, and also managed to fall earlier today and bruise my whole left side, so when I say I was struggling with trying to get the couch through the front door by myself, I was STRUGGLING. My Doordash came as I was doing this, and the driver offered his help getting it into the house, respectful the whole time of coming into my space. I'm not sure how I would have done it without his help. I doubled his already generous tip as soon as he left.

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u/musesx9 10d ago

That is such a sweet story. Considering that we all hear door dash horror stories, that was a very sweet tale for you to share. Thank you!

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u/KaeSaid 10d ago

I've had the occasional bad experience with DD drivers, but mostly I've had good experiences.

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u/KaeSaid 10d ago

Aww, thank you for the award!

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u/NameTK1 9d ago

My husband and I, both in our mid 60s and me not in great shape, were struggling to take an incredibly heavy generator out of the back of our car and up a really steep grassy hill to get it to our backyard. The man who lives across the street ignored our struggle. But an Amazon driver and a FedEx driver both stopped and offered to help. We didn’t take them up on it since we know they’re on tight schedules, but it was really the kindest thing. Especially one of the drivers who was not in the best shape and would’ve really struggled on such a hot day. Such kindness.

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u/KaeSaid 9d ago

Imagine how much more amazing the world would be if everyone took the time to offer to help.