I have to tell you about the weekend.

I was out shopping on Sunday afternoon with my wife, she was shopping for clothes and I was shopping for some new workout headphones.

Well I found a really good make and had three options – over the ear clips, around the back of the neck band or straight ear bud ones.

The first two types were £35 and the ear bud ones were £50 as they had noise isolating technology.  Well I picked up the £50 ones and walked over to the check out only to find the most enormous queue.  So I decided I’d put them back and have a look on line to see if I could find them cheaper.

I went and met my wife and we went off to the gym.  As I was getting changed a gentleman came in having just finished his workout.  He had the ‘behind the head band’ style of headphone and the exact make I was looking at only 30 mins previously.

I asked him his opinion on them and he said he loved them…I told him what I’d been looking at to which he replied “I have a pair of the ones that hook behind your ear if you want them, I never wear them and don’t really like them”.

I was gob smacked, I only struck up a conversation with this guy 30 seconds before and he was giving me a £35 pair of headphones he’d worn only twice.

He went off for a shower and I continued changing still a bit amazed that a stranger could be so generous.  So I waited for him to return and gave him my business card telling him he could contact me at any time if he wanted any advice.

I just wanted to share with you how nice some people can be and how sometimes we really fail to acknowledge those that are generous.  Usually we are only too eager to tell people when we’ve had a bad experience and forget those acts of generosity.

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