What's a good deed you have done that most likely no one noticed?

i used to live in a bigger city than i do now and there was a street i walked down more or less every day that was typically very busy. on three separate occasions in the space of a year i found lost kids there.

the first one i left with a security guard and scoured the area until i found a group of crying muslim women speaking very broken english on the phone to the police and led them back to their girl. the second i put up on my shoulders for a half hour and told him to look around until he eventually spotted his parents running around searching for him. the third i found in a little alleyway and hung out with for two hours waiting for the police to show up before his stepdad found us at the exact same time they arrived. i'm happiest i found that third one. he kept trying to run off and it took lots of talking and holding his hand to keep him still. had i not found him, he definitely would have been lost a lot longer, or worse have been found by someone with bad intentions.

all of them were very satisfying because each time the parent saw their child they didn't even acknowledge me. they were too happy / angry / flustered so i could just slip away. it's completely force of habit now when seeing a child to look around and find their parents before walking past. they get lost all the time.

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