What's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

I am a youth leader at my church, and last night we were talking about Lent and how a lot of people give up something this time of year. Then we started talking about how it would be even better (although maybe not as symbolic) to give something during Lent, and it got me thinking about all the nice things that people have done for me in my lifetime.

One thing that comes to mind is one year when I was a single mother of two and VERY broke, my boss called me into his office and just handed me $500 to buy Christmas presents for my family. There was no expectation for me to pay it back, and I never did. He just gave the money to me out of the kindness of his heart.

This past Christmas a woman I know (whose house burned down last Christmas) lost her husband in mid-December. She has four daughters and almost as many jobs, it seems like. They were already poor to start with, and this guy was basically the town drunk anyway, and it just broke my heart that tragedy had hit them two Christmases in a row. I was telling a lady I work with about it. The next day she came in with four $75 VISA gift cards for those girls and insisted that I not tell the lady where the gifts came from when I delivered them to her.

I get warm fuzzies just thinking about it. So, in this thread, tell about a time when someone just out of the blue did something really nice for you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Does anyone really know how to react appropriately when they are complimented? I always feel reeeeealllly uncomfortable when anyone compliments me on anything. Well, anything except my cooking, because I'm a damn good cook and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Anything else, though, and I get all icky inside and don't know how to react.

There's nowhere I can't reach.