No Good Deed...

[22]

I was just leaving a busy plant nursery last week when a lady fell backwards over a cone (there to stop parking immediately outside). She was mostly unscathed, a bit dusty, helped her up. All would have been ok if I hadn't trampled on her glasses as I dashed to grab her as she fell. I think she was pissed off, but couldn't really say anything as I had tried to help.

This evening I was walking the dog and saw a chap sat on his own up a hill (it was showers on and off). I wandered close and asked if he was ok. Said he'd been kicked out, not allowed to his mum & sister's because he "drinks a bit", lost his job, crashed his van. Brief chat - thanks for looking out. I walked back that way and he was on the phone to his sister. Hour or so later I thought I'd go and see if he was still there (Mrs 22 told me I'd end up getting stabbed or something!). He wasn't there but as I walked back down the hill I slipped and skidded on an already dodgy knee!

Any other minor good deeds that have gone pear shaped?

[Badda]

Ok

[The Rotrex Kid]

I helped an old lady get something off a shelf in M&S once and in doing so knocked a glass jar onto the floor. She tutted at me and walked off

[cliffords]

I helped a woman, about 30 and pregnant who had a flat tyre in the entrance to a car park
I changed the wheel with her tools and put the spacsaver wheel on .
When done I said to her the flat tyre wheel is in the boot and I have put the tools away.
I mentioned to her that the spacsaver wheel had a max speed of 50 mph.

She told me that if she had known I was going to fit a small wheel that had the stupid speed rating, she would have told me not to bother as she had 90 miles to travel and had no intention of driving at 50.
It was just me and her so I just left her too it .

[CMTMB]

Driving at the weekend I attempted to give way to an oncoming car where he should have really reversed back from where he was. I moved over to a tight spot on the left to wave him through except I totally miss judged it and smacked my wheel into the kerb. £250 on a new tyre and I need to get a diamond cut wheel repaired, on my 3 month old car.

[Jonmx]

At A&E a year or two back there was an old boy who'd been waiting a while and looked bored and glum, so I struck up a conversation. Asked what brought him there, and it was heart palpitations; 'Ah well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' I joked, 'apart from Polio'. At this point he informed me he couldn't use his left arm because of Polio....
Skip forward a few months and I was back in A&E (I've had 8 blood clots in the last few years) and struck up a chat with an older lady, and I made the same joke.....she also had polio as a child and the associated weakness. Needless to say, I don't try to cheer people up with that joke anymore!

[Doofus]

As I was coming out of the supermarket, a poor old lady slipped on a discarded crisp packet and fell badly.

I know she was poor because she only had £1.37 in her purse,

[Blib]

Jonmx said:

At A&E a year or two back there was an old boy who'd been waiting a while and looked bored and glum, so I struck up a conversation. Asked what brought him there, and it was heart palpitations; 'Ah well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' I joked, 'apart from Polio'. At this point he informed me he couldn't use his left arm because of Polio....
Skip forward a few months and I was back in A&E (I've had 8 blood clots in the last few years) and struck up a chat with an older lady, and I made the same joke.....she also had polio as a child and the associated weakness. Needless to say, I don't try to cheer people up with that joke anymore!

You clot.

[The Gauge]

I once drove from Sheffield to Northumberland to help someone I didn't even know. She was a work colleague of a friend and her husband had suddenly dropped dead a few days prior whilst they were on their caravan holiday, and she needed help getting her caravan back to Sheffield.

I drove up there, hitched it up and towed it back to her house. She never said tank you. I put it down to the shock of her husband dying, but still, it's just two words!

[BunkMoreland]

Jonmx said:

At A&E a year or two back there was an old boy who'd been waiting a while and looked bored and glum, so I struck up a conversation. Asked what brought him there, and it was heart palpitations; 'Ah well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' I joked, 'apart from Polio'. At this point he informed me he couldn't use his left arm because of Polio....
Skip forward a few months and I was back in A&E (I've had 8 blood clots in the last few years) and struck up a chat with an older lady, and I made the same joke.....she also had polio as a child and the associated weakness. Needless to say, I don't try to cheer people up with that joke anymore!

I think some people are ridiculous about their ailments and conditions. They make it their whole personality

Laughter and not taking yourself too seriously is a pre-requisite. I have a (thankfully) mild condition, controlled by daily meds. I dont care if people take the piss. I didn't choose to have it.

I often make the joke that as my Mums side of the family have heart attacks and strokes. And my Dads side get Cancer. I suspect I know what my cause of death will be. I will be a run down by a bus.

Some people wince at it and say things like "dont tempt fate" But I cant change it really, so just keep moving forward on my (non work related) goals.

[Previous]

22 said:

I was just leaving a busy plant nursery last week when a lady fell backwards over a cone (there to stop parking immediately outside). She was mostly unscathed, a bit dusty, helped her up. All would have been ok if I hadn't trampled on her glasses as I dashed to grab her as she fell. I think she was pissed off, but couldn't really say anything as I had tried to help.

This evening I was walking the dog and saw a chap sat on his own up a hill (it was showers on and off). I wandered close and asked if he was ok. Said he'd been kicked out, not allowed to his mum & sister's because he "drinks a bit", lost his job, crashed his van. Brief chat - thanks for looking out. I walked back that way and he was on the phone to his sister. Hour or so later I thought I'd go and see if he was still there (Mrs 22 told me I'd end up getting stabbed or something!). He wasn't there but as I walked back down the hill I slipped and skidded on an already dodgy knee!

Any other minor good deeds that have gone pear shaped?

Don't underestimate the effect that your words may have had to the bloke on the hill. Nice one OP

[Martin350]

As the saying, indeed, goes - No good deed goes unpunished!

But good people will still try their best to help others, so lets just carry on as we are, and damn the consequences!

Edited by Martin350 on Friday 15th May 00:57

[vikingaero]

cliffords said:

I helped a woman, about 30 and pregnant who had a flat tyre in the entrance to a car park
I changed the wheel with her tools and put the spacsaver wheel on .
When done I said to her the flat tyre wheel is in the boot and I have put the tools away.
I mentioned to her that the spacsaver wheel had a max speed of 50 mph.

She told me that if she had known I was going to fit a small wheel that had the stupid speed rating, she would have told me not to bother as she had 90 miles to travel and had no intention of driving at 50.
It was just me and her so I just left her too it .

(1) Back in the 2000's, Zafiras were all the rage, and I'd parked up in Tesco, went in and did some shopping and when I'd returned there was an RAC van attending to a lady in her Zafira. She had a flat tyre that couldn't be repaired, her spare had been stolen and they didn't do universal spares back then.

RAC man was trying to broker a deal where I lend her the spare, she brings it back to me or I collect it from her. Once he said that she started saying that she didn't know who I was, and didn't want me around her house or knowing where she lived., that she didn't see why she had to make the effort to return the spare to me etc etc. I could see that RAC man was trying to broker a solution with an early phase Karen 1.0. And there was me willing to hand over a £100 steel wheel and £100 tyre (I had one stolen before!) to a complete stranger. I got in my car and left them to it.

(2) On a night out in London and we're going from the Office to a restaurant somewhere and we're exiting at one of those tube stations with a really long escalator. I'm at the front and ahead of me is a "lady" who seemed a little unsteady getting on. 3/4 of the way up, she wobbles and tumbles backwards. I grab onto both handrails in an attempt to catch her and she knocks me backwards and we land in a heap with her on top of me, helped by my colleagues behind catching our fall. She's in a position with her fanny about 3 inches from my face, and she's not wearing knickers. She's helped up, straightens her skirt, huffs at me for being so precariously close to her minge, and storms off! My colleagues teased me all night - if only viking had a 3.5 inch tongue!

[aterribleusername]

I do good deeds all the time, from little to large. Have changed people's tyres when they've had a puncture and didn't know how to do it, given lost people lifts or shown them the way, all the way down to little things that happen every day. Every time I just have to wait a bit and something bad will come along to bite me in the ass. Every time. And the bite is usually worse than the good deed I did in the first place. A previous girlfriend was always happy to see me help others out when I could, it's one of the reasons we got together, but after we'd been together a few months she would always sit there afterwards and utter the words "Now, how is the world going to screw you over for that this time?!?". She saw it, my friends know it happens and even my bosses at work are realizing it's a phenomenon with me.

Still help out where I can though. You think I would have learned after 45 years.

[Gary29]

I was once out for a leisurely stroll and I happened upon an old couple, old boy sitting in a mobility scooter looking very sorry for himself, his wife behind trying to move it, I asked if everything is ok, they said it's broken down and they're just trying to get back home.

Being an absolute hero, I said "No problem, I'll push you home and you can get someone to look at it" thinking they were just round the corner. This fking thing had it's brakes fully bound on, they back wheels seemed completely locked solid. I'm fairly strong and a decent weight behind me to push things, but fk me it was hard going, it was also about a mile away rather than just 'round the corner' nearly killed me, I'm the one needing a mobility scooter now.

Finally got them to their door "thanks" she said and they both just hobbled off and went inside without a second glance at me

[tgr]

As a generalisation, old people tend to not bother to genuinely be grateful. I think it's because they feel they are owed help as a matter of course and they are so wrapped up in themselves and their inevitable health and mobility problems

[Monkeylegend]

I was behind an old lady at the checkout in Sainsburys the other week and after she had packed all her shopping and went to pay she realised she had left her purse at home.

I told her not to worry and I would sort it for her.

We had all her shopping back on the shelves within 5 minutes and she was on her way.

[droopsnoot]

I'm sure many will recall the bit on "Traffic Cops" where they're attending the scene of a collision near the M6. Not a massive collision, something had run into the back of something else, and a passing motorist had offered the driver of the front car a seat in his nearly new, limited edition car while the emergency services arrive. They duly arrive, decide they can't be sure her back isn't damaged, and proceed to cut the roof off a perfectly good car that wasn't involved in the collision. I expect that driver wasn't too chuffed.

[unzippy]

droopsnoot said:

I'm sure many will recall the bit on "Traffic Cops" where they're attending the scene of a collision near the M6. Not a massive collision, something had run into the back of something else, and a passing motorist had offered the driver of the front car a seat in his nearly new, limited edition car while the emergency services arrive. They duly arrive, decide they can't be sure her back isn't damaged, and proceed to cut the roof off a perfectly good car that wasn't involved in the collision. I expect that driver wasn't too chuffed.

Happens more than you think. Especially if the driver is mouthy or smells of booze. Who doesn't love the chance to play with shiny new jaws of life!

[vikingaero]

Monkeylegend said:

I was behind an old lady at the checkout in Sainsburys the other week and after she had packed all her shopping and went to pay she realised she had left her purse at home.

I told her not to worry and I would sort it for her.

We had all her shopping back on the shelves within 5 minutes and she was on her way.

The old ones are still good!