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"Swensen's Angel" becomes internet hero after wiping ice cream off a farang's feet!

 

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The world of social media was full of praise for a staff member at an ice-cream parlor who Tnews dubbed "Swensen's Angel".

 

Apparently, a handicapped western customer in a wheelchair had dropped his ice cream all over himself.

 

The obliging Angel of Mercy then bent down and wiped his hands and feet.

 

Then - as was reported on Facebook on the page of Kitti Slip - the store gave him a replacement ice cream.

 

"One picture - a million feelings" gushed Tnews adding:

 

"That's the meaning of service!".

 

The incident happened at the Swensen's branch in Central Plaza, Rayong.

 

Source: TNews

 
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2 hours ago, AlexRich said:

It was the decent thing to do, and a nice gesture. 

For sure, absolutely. ...But again and again another mis-use of the word "Hero"

   Wiping ice cream off a man's feet does not a hero make.

  People who risk or give their lives attempting to save another, or others....now they deserve the title.

   A real hero would turn in his grave if he/she could witness who are being referred to "Heros" in today's world?

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3 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

A basic common courtesy, wouldn't even be worth mentioning when the world had manners.

But good for her.

Very true.

Our bus drivers went on strike earlier this year and we had people posting photo's on the net of the drivers helping old ladies of buses and helping them across the road.  

Shouldn't that be something that people do naturally. 

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Hopefully, people are well intended and decent,  in major cities as they would be in the provinces !?!

 

In many  countries, one may have noticed that people are far more open, decent, polite, true, honest in small towns by the country, then they are in the larger metros.

 

Let's hope Thailand is the exception to this ?

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Wonder who shot the fotage? Was the fotage planned as when a local offered his t-shirt to a European homeless in Bkk?

 

I am sorry to say, but when a a basic common courtesy becomes breaking News tells me that the world has went in a wrong direction...

 

Beside that and in general -  well done...;)

 

 

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1 minute ago, siamike said:

I would much rather read 1 story like this one, of a simple, small act of kindness, then 10 stories about a biker gang member burning a rival gang member with a gasoline bomb.  

This is because small gestures like this has unfortunately become rather rare in comparison....

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1 hour ago, dotpoom said:

For sure, absolutely. ...But again and again another mis-use of the word "Hero"

   Wiping ice cream off a man's feet does not a hero make.

  People who risk or give their lives attempting to save another, or others....now they deserve the title.

   A real hero would turn in his grave if he/she could witness who are being referred to "Heros" in today's world?

 

The term comes from Greek mythology, the heroic ages, the "real heroes" were the very unreal demigods, you are cherrypicking from history and choosing a time when it was most commonly used to refer to people who risked their lives for others, but it is also used contemporarily to refer to rolemodels, as in this case.

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3 minutes ago, outsider said:

How do we know the gentlemen is from 'the west'? What if he is from Australia or Russia? Why the need to indicate the man's origini, ethnicity or nationality? Would it have been different if she did it on an 'eastern man', or Asian, or Thai?

 

Western includes Australia and Russia and anywhere else with substantial amounts of people of European decent. But there really is no need to mention that he was a farang or Western, but then you would never have heard about it if they hadn't of done.

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18 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

The term comes from Greek mythology, the heroic ages, the "real heroes" were the very unreal demigods, you are cherrypicking from history and choosing a time when it was most commonly used to refer to people who risked their lives for others, but it is also used contemporarily to refer to rolemodels, as in this case.

With other Words - a rolemodel is a rolemodel and a hero is a hero...;)

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1 minute ago, Kieran00001 said:

You really think a waitress wiping food off your feet is common courtesy in the West?  We must have been going to different cafes!

Agreed.  Imagine that at your local Maccy Ds Balham branch.  I think not.  You'll be lucky if they throw up on you.

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