A guy lost a bag full of cake on a Tube train, then a total stranger came to the rescue

Sometimes the world isn't such an awful place.

When Londoner Ian K. Ellard wrote this on Twitter earlier today... https://twitter.com/IanKEllard/status/719456788542857216 ...little were we to know that we would get the most heartwarming, "Wow, people really can be bang-on sometimes" story of the day.

Ian continued:

Nightmare. It goes on...

What would you do in that scenario? Keep it? Start eating then and there? Abandon it??

Well...

So Ian decided on a course of action...

Wait for it...

Ian collated his multi-tweet story into an easy-to-read Storify post.

He finished the story with:

https://twitter.com/IanKEllard/status/719460982695792640 https://twitter.com/IanKEllard/status/719492384837537792

This sound man does deserve a cake! If you're reading this mystery man, we'd love to have you and Ian over to the JOE offices for some cake and a chat. It's on us, for making us smile on a grey Monday.

What's your funniest/sweetest public transport story? Do you have a corker of a Good Samaritan tale to share? Email us: Hello@JOE.co.uk or message us on our Facebook page.