A young mother is trying to find the stranger who handed her a note and £5 for teaching her son good manners.
Sammie Welch (23) and her three-year-old son Rylan were travelling home on the train from Birmingham to Plymouth on Thursday evening when she was given the note by a fellow passenger getting off at Bristol.
The stranger apparently said that the piece of paper had fallen out of her bag but when she opened it up, she realised that it was from him.
It read: “Have a drink on me. You are a credit to your generation. Polite & teaching the little boy good manners. P.T.O… P.S. 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!”
Speaking about the kind gesture, Sammie 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.”
According to reports she has put the money in a savings account for her boy but would love to track the man, believed to be in his 50s, down to thank him.
Sammie says she was just trying to keep Rylan entertained for the journey. After his dinner the toddler fell asleep across his mum and another chair. When a passenger came to sit down, Sammie lifted Rylan onto her knee so that the chair was available.
This is the note Sammie was given (images courtesy of SWNS via Metro).
