Ever Been Dissed While Doing a Good Deed?

[4X4]

Rolling along today, around noonish, I turn off of SB Crowchild onto WB 16th and am plotting a SB turn on 29th. As I'm passing a cyclist, I notice that her cell phone (or something electronic) fell out of her backpack and was thus lost to her.
I decided to pull over and alert her to her misfortune, so I pulled off of the road and jumped out of the truck and tried to flag her down as she approached.
I'm standing on the side of 16th, my truck up in the snow on the side, trucks are passing and spraying dirty road water everywhere, and I'm practically in her way waving my arm because she's ignoring me as she approaches...
She's passing me even though my arm is practically decapitating her, and because she's wearing headphones, I yell "YOU DROPPED YOUR CELL PHONE!!!".
She immediately stops and turns around (passes me) and starts backtracking to find her phone. Doesn't even nod at me.

Now, I can't even to begin to figure out why a person would proceed past another person pulled over on the side of the road. Perhaps she thought that I was broken down and I (god forbid) needed her to make a phone call. Or maybe the beast thought that I was trying to hit on her. Either way, the next time Rosie O'Donnell drops her goddamn phone or ham sandwich or whatever the hell it was, I'm not pulling over to tell her.

[tanguay'sstillgood]

i understand your point here, and, if it went down just like that then this chick is a bit of a biiiatch, but its understandable for a lady to not stop to help someone pulled over. honestly, she didnt know what the hell you were doing at the time and might have been freaked out. i know this happened in the city and in a busy place, but after those losers beat the hell out of the guy who stopped to help them a little while back i dont blame anybody for not stopping to help a car that's pulled over.

[jammies]

Ah, safety, thy name is cycling with your headphones on!

I would have let her keep going, grabbed the phone and started calling people in her address book, "Hey, do you know the owner of this phone number? Tell her she can come get it from me if she wants to pay me $100, otherwise she can pound sand."

Reminds of this guy last summer who was crossing 10th Street and wasn't even half-way across when my light went green so that he was not only still in front of my bumper, but had the lanes coming the other way about to run him over. So I just touch the horn to alert him "dude, you're gonna get run over if you don't wake up and LOOK at what's going on" and he starts screaming, "Mother***** don't honk your M**** horn at me!" Ya ok buddy, next time I'll just flash my lights to distract the other drivers so they don't see you and mangle you under their wheels while I laugh.

[FlamesAddiction]

I saw a girl coming out of Canadian Tire with a couple of bags, so to be a nice guy, I stopped to open the door for her before walking by the outdoor on my way to the indoor. As she walked out, she said; "This is the outdoor, idiot!". I was too shocked to think of anything to say, so I just smiled like an idiot.

She was hot too.

[Eastern Girl]

Tons of times... The worst was when I held the door open for a guy in a wheel chair and after he went through the door, he proceeded to rant and rave about how I was probably one of those people that assumes that people in wheelchairs can't do anything for themselves and always need help with everything. He said I probably thought I was better than him and thought I was being discriminating. I was so embarrassed, I was trying to explain that I would have held the door open for whoever was behind me to be polite, but he wasn't having it. It was not a fun moment in my life.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

During a snow storm a few weeks back I saw someone had their car stuck in the snow so I thought I would help out. As I'm pushing on the car I think to myself that the car isn't budging as much as I thought it would. Then I look over and see buddy isn't helping me push, he's chatting on his cell phone!

[tanguay'sstillgood]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Tons of times... The worst was when I held the door open for a guy in a wheel chair and after he went through the door, he proceeded to rant and rave about how I was probably one of those people that assumes that people in wheelchairs can't do anything for themselves and always need help with everything. He said I probably thought I was better than him and thought I was being discriminating. I was so embarrassed, I was trying to explain that I would have held the door open for whoever was behind me to be polite, but he wasn't having it. It was not a fun moment in my life.

Should have taken something from him and put it on a high shelf or thrown it on the floor then seen if he was still so cocky.

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Tons of times... The worst was when I held the door open for a guy in a wheel chair and after he went through the door, he proceeded to rant and rave about how I was probably one of those people that assumes that people in wheelchairs can't do anything for themselves and always need help with everything. He said I probably thought I was better than him and thought I was being discriminating. I was so embarrassed, I was trying to explain that I would have held the door open for whoever was behind me to be polite, but he wasn't having it. It was not a fun moment in my life.

That's always a tough one for me. Not only handicap, but how far (in order to not totally derail the thread) should one go in order to help another person?
For some reason doors I always have problems with. Not that it affects me in any way, but your post made me think about it a bit. Typically if I don't know someone (i.e. on campus) I will walk through the door myself, and hold it open behind me for the person behind me (I think everyone does this). Thinking about handicap people, I always feel like I should help them more so than others, but I'm in a sense always nervous about getting into a situation like you did EG.

[Machiavelli]

I usually only go out of my way to help women pushing strollers. Handicapped people I usually try to avoid going through the same door, as I figure they've got the entering/leaving buildings thing down, and yeah like EG I don't want to be yelled at.

But I HATE it when I do something courteous for a stranger and they don't even mutter a thank you.

[zukes]

I was doing the deed and was told I was not doing it right....

[Temporary_User]

Originally Posted by zukes

I was doing the deed and was told I was not doing it right....

Ouch. On Valentines day of all days

[zukes]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

Ouch. On Valentines day of all days

I meant when I was 14 no complaints now brutha. I'm married, she can't complain about what she doesn't want.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by jammies

Ah, safety, thy name is cycling with your headphones on!

I would have let her keep going, grabbed the phone and started calling people in her address book, "Hey, do you know the owner of this phone number? Tell her she can come get it from me if she wants to pay me $100, otherwise she can pound sand."

Reminds of this guy last summer who was crossing 10th Street and wasn't even half-way across when my light went green so that he was not only still in front of my bumper, but had the lanes coming the other way about to run him over. So I just touch the horn to alert him "dude, you're gonna get run over if you don't wake up and LOOK at what's going on" and he starts screaming, "Mother***** don't honk your M**** horn at me!" Ya ok buddy, next time I'll just flash my lights to distract the other drivers so they don't see you and mangle you under their wheels while I laugh.

Oh man, that happened to me on 8th and 4th a few weeks ago. I was first in line at a red waiting to turn and the light turned green so just as I was pulling into the crosswalk this guy did a jog step to get in front of my bumper. So I hit the horn and he started squaking at me while standing in front of my truck with the light green. So I just gave him a shrug and "Vanna White" presented him the rest of the crosswald with a big grin. He slowly crossed the road while giving me the "come get some" motion with his arms and yapping the whole way across.

Now if I wasn't in my city truck it may have gone down differently but really there are some true Arseholes in this city. A few pointers to the white collar zombies that pollute downtown with their crappy "holier than thou" attitudes:

-"Don't walk" means exactly that
-Don't get pissed at me when you are trying to Jaywalk and my driving down the road screws you up
-Finally, GET OFF YOUR DAMN BLACKBERRY!! That penis enlargement e-mail can wait until you get back to the office, you don't need to reply to it while crossing a road.

EDIT: Wow, sorry... kind of got on a rant there. Didn't mean to de-rail your thread a little.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

During a snow storm a few weeks back I saw someone had their car stuck in the snow so I thought I would help out. As I'm pushing on the car I think to myself that the car isn't budging as much as I thought it would. Then I look over and see buddy isn't helping me push, he's chatting on his cell phone!

Haha, that reminds me of my friends a few years ago. About 12 of us were driving up to Edmonton to see the U2 concert in 3 cars. Some of our friends took an old VW bus, so we gave them a half hour head start. Somewhere around Red Deer, we see their van on the side of the road, so we pull over.

Some good samaritan had also pulled over and was changing their flat tire. So I look around, where are my friends. They all had their golf clubs out and were hitting golf balls into a farmers field while the poor guy was changing their tire!!!!

[stang]

I heard on the radio about a police officer who arrested a fire chief while they were trying to help out at an accident scene.

Apperantly the officer wanted them to move their truck but they were too busy saving lives


He got a fine IIRC

EDIT: http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stori....bd01f42f.html

[4X4]

Originally Posted by fotze

4x4 that is why god invented the power of speech and the delicious C-word.

I kinda wanted to chuck a snowball at the back of her head.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by stang

I heard on the radio about a police officer who arrested a fire chief while they were trying to help out at an accident scene.

Apperantly the officer wanted them to move their truck but they were too busy saving lives


He got a fine IIRC

EDIT: http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stori....bd01f42f.html

Wowza i am suprised that the rest of the fire company did't gang beat the cop when he pulled that, they should have. The guy clearly has a sereve powertrip going on.

[Aeneas]

Not a good deed exactly, but I used to park under the French maid (company truck/parking space) and once stopped at the light to wait for a green to cross ( I was walking).

A lady of the evening was also standing there, we looked at each other; I nodded politley to her. She said something like, "You want some company tonight?"

I said, "That would be lovely, but I don't think my girlfriend would like it." I was trying to be slightly humorous, maybe brighten up her evening just a little.

She gave me the finger, saying "I didn't ask for your f###ing life story."

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

Not a good deed exactly, but I used to park under the French maid (company truck/parking space) and once stopped at the light to wait for a green to cross ( I was walking).

A lady of the evening was also standing there, we looked at each other; I nodded politley to her. She said something like, "You want some company tonight?"

I said, "That would be lovely, but I don't think my girlfriend would like it." I was trying to be slightly humorous, maybe brighten up her evening just a little.

She gave me the finger, saying "I didn't ask for your f###ing life story."

So, how was she? Worth it?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fotze

4x4 that is why god invented the power of speech and the delicious C-word.

Jane Fonda dropped the C-bomb on The View Thursday.

Warning, language:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=432_1203003925