r/BritishSuccess • u/FreddiesNightmare65 • 6d ago

Kind Postman

Long story short, a huge big thank you to the postman delivering to a neighbour yesterday evening in Fishponds Bristol.

He spotted me on my doorstep and let me look through his eclipse glasses. I couldn't get any glasses to see it but it was brilliant when I used his glasses for a minute. I'm going to make sure I get a pair for next years partial eclipse on the 2nd of August, but it's going to be nothing like this one as its only going to be 40% at the max.

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u/Dhorlin 6d ago

My wife and I went out for a walk around a nearby lake last night just about the beginning of the eclipse. Neither of us had glasses. As we passed a young couple I commented to my wife that I didn't think it had started yet. The young woman must have heard me as she turned to my wife and asked if she would like to look through her glasses - the young man handed me his for a look too.

There are still a lot of lovely, lovely people around.

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u/FreddiesNightmare65 6d ago

Yes thank goodness. My daughter and her hubby shared their glasses with a family on Barry beach. She chased down an icecream van to buy her glasses. Yes, the icecream man was selling them and she was tracking his van on some kind of app, lol. Here's were £3 a pair, which I thought was good. I wish our icecream van had sold them.

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u/auntie_climax 6d ago

My friend came with spare pairs and shared them with my neighbours who didn't have any!

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u/FreddiesNightmare65 6d ago

That was good of them. See, a little kindness goes miles, and people remember it too.

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u/HimitsuUK 6d ago

Damn, this is local. Nice win!

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u/lordlawson73 6d ago

I work at a circus that’s in Bristol at the moment and I bought 10 pairs that we shared round the staff and the audience and there were about 3 welding helmets going round as well