From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankarvedantam. This is my unsung hero,

stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

I would like to thank my unsung hero. I do not know her name.

And all the sudden I look up and this hand slides two warm chocolate chip cookies across the desk.

To this day, it was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me.

Today's story comes from Alice Clause.

In June 2021, Alice and her sister flew to Budapest for their uncle's funeral.

It was a long journey with multiple layovers. Travel in Europe was just

starting again, lots of requirements in COVID testing and hungry was actually not

open to foreigners.

We were not citizens, but we were relatives of citizens,

so we traveled with a binder full of documents

and we used almost all of them.

But when we finally arrived, my sister and I got in a taxi with three big suitcases to go to the apartment that I rented and we get to the apartment and no check in

instructions have arrived the owner is not available and the phone number is not valid and when we tried to call the

helpline for the app they had such a high volume that you could only chat with a bot and then we quickly

realized that we were so tired there was no way we could wait for assistance

so I decided to try to find an apartment nearby and the third one that I

texted said yes my apartment is available you can go and check in here's the code

so we grab our suitcases and we start rolling down the sidewalk and we go about a block and

go around a corner and look up at the five staircases that have to be climbed in order to get to the street where our apartment is, which is quite a bit higher than where we are. And we just wanted to cry. And just then, this young

guy walked by with his girlfriend and we definitely would have said no normally and we looked at each

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