Stranger leaves young mum a note and £5 for teaching son good manners

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Stranger leaves young mum a handwritten note and £5 for teaching son good manners

WHEN a stranger getting off a train handed Sammie Welch a piece of paper he told her it had fallen out of her bag.

Sammie Welch with her three-year-old son Rylan Harms

In fact, it was a handwritten note hailing the young mum as a “credit to her generation” – and wrapped inside was £5 with the message: “Have a drink on me”.

Sammie, 23, who had been cuddling her sleeping three-year-old son Rylan, is now trying to track down the man to thank him.

She said: “When he handed it to me I just said thank you and took it from him.

"But when I looked at it and saw what was written I was so shocked.

“I feel really overwhelmed by it all, it was just so lovely to get it.

“I’ve put the money in a savings account for Rylan now, I thought that was the best place for it.

“Money is quite short for people nowadays so for someone to give me that was amazing.

“I really want to thank him personally.”

The scribbled note read: “Have a drink on me, you’re a credit to your generation, polite and teaching the little boy good manners.

“PS I have a daughter your age, someone did the same for her once.

"Hope when she has children she is as good a mother as you.”

The stranger described himself as the “man on train at table with glasses and hat”.

Sammie and Rylan were heading home to Plymouth on a First Great Western train from Birmingham when the man handed her the note as he got off at Bristol on Thursday evening.

I like this story.

It's been on the tip of my tongue so many times when there's children misbehaving or talking like sewer mouths INFRONT of their useless parents to say something but usually I refrain because you just know the parents are the type who will give you a mouthful for daring to criticise their little angels but who are too lazy and useless to give their children a mouthful for talking like the little horrors they are. I might say something next time and see what happens because i'd love to show up one of the gobby mothers infront of everybody.

Thoughts?

[Kimmy]

It's sad that you have to actually thank people for having manners and decency these days.
Kudos to the young mother for trying to instill some good behavioural traits in her son, though.

[Kyle]

The notion that she should spend the money on drink (could be anything, why a drink? Is that all young people spend their money on these days?!) is a bit presumptuous and the note seems very patronising, surely I'm not the only one thinking this? It's a nice gesture but it really does show what the perception of young mothers and their children has wen skewed to become.


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[Alkaz]

What was she actually teaching her son, he was asleep? It is nice to hear that there are some courteous people around though, I hate getting on HS1 as 9 times out of 10 it's full of ignorant business people who don't want to put their Louis Vuitton on the floor and take up extra seats. I was once on a train carriage with almost 90 people in it, crammed in the door ways and there was still empty seats due to people pretending to be asleep so not to move their bags and have a stranger sit next to them.

[Evanora]

rylan, really??

[The Don]

The notion that she should spend the money on drink (could be anything, why a drink? Is that all young people spend their money on these days?!) is a bit presumptuous and the note seems very patronising, surely I'm not the only one thinking this? It's a nice gesture but it really does show what the perception of young mothers and their children has wen skewed to become.


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It's incredibly patronising... "Here's a fiver because your kid isn't being a little ****".

[Reality]

God I'd really wish the Daily Mail would end their quotes tags! :rolleyes:

“Money is quite short for people nowadays so for someone to give me that was amazing.

Anways, I loved hearing about this on the TV this morning, thought that it was a lovely jester from the guy that gave it to her and I think that more people would be willing to recognise and thank people for their behaviour, something that lets people notice they're being recognised (obviously not with money - general idea of it).

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The notion that she should spend the money on drink (could be anything, why a drink? Is that all young people spend their money on these days?!) is a bit presumptuous and the note seems very patronising, surely I'm not the only one thinking this? It's a nice gesture but it really does show what the perception of young mothers and their children has wen skewed to become.


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I think he might of been referring to the fact there are trolley services on trains...

[lemons]

rylan, really??

but yes this is a nice story
on the bus last week there was an annoying little kid who was crying and crying and crying the whole way for about 30mins and his dad was doing **** all and i felt like saying something but the man looked aggressive

[Chris]

I read this on the train today. I thought it was quite a cute little story.

[GommeInc]

It's a bit patronising but the intentions were good, and she took it well. I think the "PS. My daughter had the same happen to her" removes any sort of patronising undertones as it is essentially just passing on the wealth to another good young mum. I have to admit, some parents are useless and require twice as hard a slap than their children should.