The Not Always Right 2024 Retrospective: The Top Feel-Good Stories!

Roundups | Right | January 7, 2025

Dear readers,

Now that the dust has settled on 2024, it’s time to start our tradition of annual retrospectives! Today, we are going to look at the best inspirational stories from the second half of the year (the first half can be found here!) to help us all restore our faith in humanity between all the stories of raging entitled customers!

Today: The 24 highest-voted inspirational stories of the second half of 2024!

Knowledge Is Power: The Power To Do Good – This guy got to learn something just by walking through the doors!

Busted Knees And A Bursting Heart – The most important thing you can teach kids is kindness. And you’re nailing it!

He’s Gonna Teach Them A Lesson. Genuinely. – [Nick Fury has entered the chat.]

The Hunt For Great Friends Stops Here – Hits from the comments: “It’s true what they say – good friends help you move, great friends help you move bodies. Even if the body is that of a moose.” (Credit: Ray Anselmo)

Fostering A More Comfortable Environment (And Making Us Cry) – Every now and then, “the system” really works.

Tech-nically Doing Her Job To The Letter – Rules are important, but even more so is knowing when (and how) to bend them.

This Is Not A Drill, This Is A Beautiful Little Moment – Hits from the comments: “They both got their fistful of dollars that day.” (Credit: NinaJade)

Nana’s New To “Nintendogs”, But Nice As Can Be – We could all stand to be more like this grandmother!

For An Ace In The Hole, Call Up A Pole – When the homesickness hits, sometimes you gotta cry it out.

The Real Heroes Have Towels Instead Of Capes – Now that’s customer service!

This Christmas, We Got You A Bucket Of Our Tears – Anyone else absolutely wrecked by this one? Just us?

When You’ve Had Enough Birthdays, You Can Do More Of This! – She had her cake and ate it, too. And she took some home! THE SCANDAL!

When It’s Okay To Nickel And Dime – It takes a village — and not just for kids!

She’ll Always Be Their Boo – Don’t mind us, just boo-hooing over Boo!

The Keeper Of The Coin – Hits from the comments: “I’m so glad it ended the way it did; otherwise, the tip we all thought it would be would have been jarring!” (Credit: Stephen)

When Going To Live On A Farm Is A Good Thing – Hits from the comments: “I can practically feel my own tail wagging.” (Credit: Melanie Mather)

This Bus Is On Diversion Towards Doing The Right Thing – Buses seem to be hotspots for civil disobedience, don’t they?

Chocolate Cures All, Part 5 – Hits from the comments: “Wake me up before you cocoa…” (Credit: Andrew)

Turns Out This Feline Did Have A Favorite – Once you’ve got the tears out of your eyes, check the comments on this one for a furry truckload of cat tax pics!

If The Gators See You, Just Play Kitten – This story’s got it all: you’ll gasp, you’ll hold your breath, and you’ll burst out laughing!

Thanksgiving Finds A Way – A plate full of “awwwwwwwwwww”.

Pizzas Are Pole-ing In Popularity – Hits from the comments: “There’s no topping that story.” (Credit: mcarp555)

Queueing Up A Little Kindness In A Weird Time – This was the little breath of fresh air those workers really needed it during difficult times.

Take Out An Appendix, Put In A Little Joy – We were going to grab a pun from the comments, but we couldn’t cut out just one! Go look!

We hope you enjoyed this collection of the highest-voted Inspirational stories in 2024 (second half)! Check out our 2024 mid-year retrospectives below:

The Not Always Right 2024 Mid-Year Retrospective: The Top 24 Feel-Good Stories!