When Alex was only a little boy, his parents abandoned him because of his disability. However, he got adopted by a caring doctor. What he did next to repay her is unbelievable. It was 1 AM when Alex’s parents carefully snuck out of the house, looking behind them several times to be sure they weren’t being watched. They placed the baby in the back seat of their clunky car and sped off. About 30 minutes later, they got to the doorpost of the hospital where Alex had been born. Luckily for them, the security guard was nowhere to be seen.…
Author: town gist
I had a call from Steve. Steve had been pursuing me for months but I was not paying him any attention. I’d gone out with him on different occasions. It was one of those moments he proposed to me. I said, “No, I can’t date you.” He answered, “I will understand if you tell me you don’t know me that much so you’ll need some time to study me.That’s fine but saying you can’t date me means you’ve thrown out all the possibilities of falling in love with me and that hurts.” I apologized. I said, “I can ask for…
They were three guys when I met them. Martin, Joe and Laka. It was Martin who called and talked to me. They were new in town and were looking for friends. I agreed to be friends with them. All of them became my friends and since they were living in the same house, I went there on weekends to help them. They were kind to me. They bought gifts for me when they returned from their travels. They gave me money when I needed it and even extended that help to my parents.Martin was the one who called me so…
I was a little girl, ten or eleven when my mother took me to her hometown. It’s a little village somewhere in the central region. When we were in a car going, she talked about how wonderful the village was and how she wished I would grow in the village instead of the city. And how she wished I would grow around the people who truly loved me. I was a girl. I didn’t know so much of what goes on in the world so I didn’t understand a lot of things that she was saying. We got to the…
Nancy, a bus driver aged 35, was nearing the end of her final shift. With her gloved hands tightly gripping the steering wheel, she skillfully maneuvered the bus through the snowy streets, picking up and dropping off passengers across the city. As Nancy glanced at the rearview mirror to assess the remaining passengers, she noticed only a few individuals left, including a young boy who appeared to be around eight years old. Curiously, he occupied the same seat he had chosen almost three hours earlier when Nancy embarked on her journey. What perplexed Nancy was the boy’s prolonged presence on…
A husband abandoned his wife and kids shortly after an accident, but a few years later, he ran into her in a park. The former couple now had new lives, and the husband felt bad seeing his ex-wife with another man. Amelia Raymonds was a very pretty girl who had it great from her childhood. She was from a middle-class family, and they cherished formal education. While growing up, she excelled in class, which made her family proud. Things were not bad for the straight A-student as a senior high school student or college student. She had a charming personality…
I have been in a relationship with this guy for almost five I years. We met on Facebook and later became lovers. I ove him as If my very life depends on him. When we met, he was a student and I owned a shop. It was not a big shop but made a lot of sales at the end of every week. My boyfriend didn’t have much because he was in school. So, I supported him in the best ways that I could. When he needed bookS, I bought them. When he needed money to sort his life out,…
An elderly monk from India was heading from his hometown of Calcutta to London with a layover in Abu Dhabi and attracted the attention of the airport staff in the United Arab Emirates. He gained worldwide fame by simply showing his passport.When the check-in officer saw the passenger’s date of birth, she was so surprised that she turned to security to investigate the situation. According to the ID the man provided, the Indian man, Swami Sivanata, was the oldest person on the planet.The passport stated that the man was born in the previous century, specifically on August 8, 1896. If…
A rich girl helps a homeless black man without knowing who he actually was in the heart of New York City. Emma lived a life of privilege and luxury, with a beautiful penthouse, a successful family business, and an endless array of designer clothes. She had everything anyone could ever want. But despite her wealth, Emma was far from being a typical rich girl. She had a kind heart and a genuine concern for others, always willing to lend a hand to those in need. On a cool autumn evening, as she walked through the bustling streets of Manhattan, Emma’s…
When Peepa started to feel suspicious about her housekeeper, Jackie, she decided to get a little sneaky herself. She secretly installed a bunch of cameras in her house without Jackie or her husband, Sam, knowing about it. And you know what? Peepa’s plan totally paid off, ’cause the footage she snagged blew the lid off of Jackie’s real intentions. When Peepa spilled the deets about those sneaky cameras in her house, the housekeeper’s face went all kinds of pale. She was mortified with regret, but it was too late. But what had Jackie dug up on the camera footage?Jackie’s work…