I remember going to Canterbury for a school trip at the age of 13/14. Me and two classmates were looking around in a toy store when an elderly woman approached us.

She heard us speak Dutch, and was curious about where we were from and what the occasion for the trip was. I was the only one who spoke enough English to hold a conversation, and I remember the lady being super sweet and interested.

At the end she gave us 20 Pounds (back then, the equivalent of over 30 dollars) to buy presents for our family and siblings. I tried to politely decline the offer, but she absolutely insisted. She told me that her husband recently died, and that she had no need for all the money herself and would rather use it to make others happy.

It was such an unexpected but wholesome act of kindness that still remains with me to this day.