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randyhaddock:

I absolutely love when I randomly run into strangers and they turn out to be just awesome people. We had a huge situation with our big couch we brought from Florida and after bringing it up the five flights of stairs with a buddy, the damn thing wouldn’t fit through our door. I mean, it technically fit but the wall right behind it wouldn’t let the couch go through. So now that couch is up for sale and today we went to an Ikea in Long Island to get a new, smaller one.

As we’re walking around the massive store, we overhear these young kids with our exact same problem. Need of a couch but needs to be in pieces in order to fit through the door. It seems most Ikea couches do NOT require assembling; they come in one whole piece. Anyways I get to talking to this guy and he’s gracious enough to offer us the discount his friend (who works at Ikea) offered him as well. Sweet! And the girl who actually hooked us up was so incredibly polite too.

Maybe being from Florida has accustomed me to constantly coming across rude and inconsiderate people, so whenever I encounter people like this, it just blows me away as an incredibly foreign thing.

Then we get to our building and these hella cool guys offer to help us with the couch up the stairs. After we were done with the couch, we hung out over a few Stella & Artois’ and had a few laughs.

Crazy how a metropolis like this is packed with incredibly polite and pleasant people. I really do hope this is the norm.

 i would say the majority of folks are nice! moving from the south i was afraid of all the ‘yankees’… but really everyone is generally very helpful. maybe not always patient, but usually mean well : ) i always try to remember to pay it forward. maybe it’s because i still get excited when someone asks me for directions.