Stranger's Kindness Helps Elderly Woman Buy Vacuum Cleaner

Kindness of strangers: A hall-of-fame athlete helped my 94-year-old mum buy a vacuum cleaner

A woman in the queue said she was happy to drive an hour, pick up the vacuum, then bring it to Mum’s house. I was worried – but how wrong I was! Read more in the kindness of strangers series For a 94-year-old woman, my mother is still very busy and active. So when a vacuum cleaner she liked the look of went on sale at a national electronics chain, Mum drove herself to the nearest store to buy it. Unfortunately, the shop in her area had sold out by the time she got there. The sales assistant...

By Andrea Malone as told to Katie Cunningham