For those who don't know London, England, the city is big and unfriendly like most of the people you meet there.

I was a student catching a train from Hatfield (Town Down South) via London (Capital) to my parental home town up North.

Unknow to me my return portion of my ticket had expired, when I bought the ticket they were valid for three months but they changed it to one month.

I was a homesick student who had riden to london with a ticket I thought was valid but when I tried to get the London train I found out my ticket was expired. I was stuck I had no money or cash, not even enough to use the pay phone. I asked the ticket inspector to ring my parents, so they could pay for a new ticket by credit card over the phone.

"It wasn't their policy" He said "and anyway they didn't take credit card payments due to the high fraud rate in London."

I just sat on my rucksack and wept, I had no way to get back to my student digs 30 miles away or 180 miles away to my home.

A lady approached me and asked why I was so upset, I explained. She offered to pay my fare home
She told me I could sent it back to her when I could afford it.

I was so surprised, London is full of fraud artists, that is why the train staff wouldn't help me, they had been hardened to sob stories before.

I explained that I couldn't take expensive train fare off a stranger but asked to borrow a couple of coins for the phone. I rang home and my father drove to the nearest station near my parental home to pay for a ticket.

My angel said she would treat me to a cup of tea and a bun instead of the train fare, which I enjoyed. She explained that she had been homesick when she was a student and could stand to see me so upset, that I had remainded her of herself.

God Bless her, I hope karma has been very very good to her.

She taught me that there is good people everywhere ....even London !!!