The good deeds thread....

[pylon]

This will probably die a quick horrible death, but I have thought of this thread before, and will try it. A reprieve from a lot of the threads based on negative events, and general bickering. I wish this thread to be free of flaming and vitriol towards other users, regardless of your opinion of them.

So without further adieu:

When was the last time you went out of your way for a stranger?

Bought someone a coffee when they forgot change?
Helped dig a strangers car out of a snowbank?
Helped someone carry something up a flight of stairs in your building?

It could be anything, just a little gesture, that may have made someones day or hour, or simply put a smile on their face. Maybe this thread will inspire you to do the something you normally wouldn't.

There is a nursing home just down the street from my building, and many of the residents love my dumb little wiener dog Molly, and Molly gets quite excited to meet new people. Everyday we walk past there, I make sure to walk up to the window to see if any of the residents are hanging out in the Lobby, so they can come outside if it is warm, or at least come to the vestibule to give her a couple minutes of love. I almost have no choice now, as she tugs me towards the door any time we walk past it...lol. It is simply a few minutes out of my day, but it seems to put a smile on the face of the residents of the nursing home.

What are you going to do this week, to put a smile on someones face? Or what have you done recently?

[MrMastodonFarm]

I helped Nenshi clean up his basement suite.

[TorqueDog]

I was picking up a sandwich at Olly Fresco's and one of the girls who worked there had just bought a snack before going home for the day. Unfortunately, she then realised she had just used her bus fare to buy it. I gave her a bus ticket instead of her having to ask to borrow it from the till.

[puckluck]

Saw a guy miss his bus last week and he runs over to my truck while I was at a red light and begged for a ride so using bad judgement and feeling bad for him I gave him a ride to the Marlborough C train station. I feared for my life the whole ride, but it actually felt good helping him out once I realized he wasn't a serial killer.

[flylock shox]

Here's a bit of a weird one.

Coming out of the Starbucks across from my office, I find this 50-60 year old fellow - very much the typical businessman or lawyer - standing outside with one foot up on the stairs looking fairly nonplussed.

He asked me if I could help him: he had a pretty serious hip problem, and now found himself unable to reach down to tie his own shoes. So I stopped and tied the loose one for him.

Kind of an odd situation, but what else was he supposed to do I guess?

He'll have to find himself some velcro wingtips somewhere.

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by puckluck

Saw a guy miss his bus last week and he runs over to my truck while I was at a red light and begged for a ride so using bad judgement and feeling bad for him I gave him a ride to the Marlborough C train station. I feared for my life the whole ride, but it actually felt good helping him out once I realized he wasn't a serial killer.

When I was in highschool I dropped off my girlfriend and it was about 2 am and when I'm pulling out I see 3 guys run towards me and knock on my window. They ask if they can get a ride home since their taxi didn't come. Now they weren't exactly the clean cut type and I could smell some weed on them. But me being dumb said sure. Good thing I came out alive...

[Yasa]

I laughed at a person slipping on ice multiple times. Really snapped myself out of that sour mood. It was a personal good deed.

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by Yasa

I laughed at a person slipping on ice multiple times. Really snapped myself out of that sour mood. It was a personal good deed.

care to elaborate?

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ht=fall+report

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by surferguy

care to elaborate?

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ht=fall+report

I hate bumping threads not on the first page. That's my good deed to you guys.

[pgsieve]

Did anyone else have a big problem with the Christmas shoe box campaign? I had never done it before, and talked myself and my roommates into doing it. We saw all the posters in our residence building that they would be picking the shoe boxes up at a particular time. We waited during the hour that they said they would be there to pick them up, and no one showed up? Then we heard that the campaign was over and that we had to have our boxes in by the 27th or something? (They were supposed to pick them up on the 23). Anyways.. we tried staples and a few other places that said they were taking them, only to find out that we were too late. We ended up bringing the boxes to the Children's Hospital, where they took the toys for the kids there.

For someone who has never really been involved in these types of volunteer campaigns, they sure make made it difficult to participate. I could see this turning people away from a good cause. All things aside, the toys got out to some kids who need them.

[Hack&Lube]

I dropped a co-worker off at her apartment one -40° winter night and there was this middle eastern lady with a stroller and her kid in the lobby and she looked really lost and afraid. For some reason she asked me if I could come back the next night and help drive her and her kid to the airport because for some reason, the taxi company would not accommodate the special stroller her child had. I couldn't say no and gave her my number when she asked.

This doesn't really make any sense to me now that I think about it, but because I am a sucker and an incredibly nice guy, I did come back the following night to help her out and took them to the airport. When they came back to Canada, she called me to help drive her and her son as well. Seems they came to Canada a few years ago and the husband left them and they were pretty destitute.

That was the last good deed of karma that I can remember. I've been an evil scumbag since.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I dropped a co-worker off at her apartment one -40° winter night and there was this middle eastern lady with a stroller and her kid in the lobby and she looked really lost and afraid. For some reason she asked me if I could come back thenext night and help drive her and her kid to the airport because for some reason, the taxi company would not accommodate the special stroller her child had. I couldn't say no and gave her my number when she asked.

This doesn't really make any sense to me but again now that I think about it, but because I am a sucker and an incredibly nice guy, I did come back the following night to help her out and took them to the airport. When they came back to Canada, she called me to help drive her and her son as well. Seems they came to Canada a few years ago and the husband left them and they were pretty destitute.

That was the last good deed of karma that I can remember. I've been an evil scumbag since.

I need a ride to the airport on the 23rd early, thanks bud.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Okay to be serious, every year for the past little while I've done the Salvation Army kettle thing around the holidays.

[Phanuthier]

This wasn't me, but the girl I'm dating... I was meeting her in Vegas a week ago, and she flying in a few days after me. She is a post-doc, so she doesn't make a lot of $$ and dressed like a student... anyways she was at the airport and is walking around looking for something to eat that is reasonably priced. Asked how much a sandwhich was, it was $9 and she said no thanks and puts it back down. Some lady walks up and said "let me buy it for you, poor students shouldn't starve" ... of coarse she declines but it was a nice offer.

Nice deeds... I dunno, I don't really keep track of what I do. A women at my work spilled coffee all over the floor yesterday, so I helped her clean up I guess. I held the door open a few times for someone.

EDIT : Oh I guess I did kind of save a guys life last week. So while in Vegas, I was climbing at Red Rocks and it was a rappell off the mountain. I was using a 70m rope, while was able to reach the ground on the last anchor station / rappell, and there were no intermediates that would make an intermediate belay station. The guy behind me was using a 60m rope which would not have got him to the ground, and we were the last party off the rock. So, I warn the guy at the just before he was able to rap off the last belay that his 60m would not have reached the ground and he could rappell off my rope. If I didn't offer or he didn't notice, he would have been stuck there, frozen to death and/or rappelled off the end of his rope and fallen to serious injury or possibly death.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

I held the door open a few times for someone.

You're like Oskar Schindler.

[CaptainCrunch]

I murdered a hipster and buried him in fish creek.

I consider that to be as good of a deed as it gets.

[longsuffering]

Instead of a "Look what a swell guy I am because of this good deed I did" thread, it might have been better to ask "What random acts of kindness have you BEEN the recipient of?"

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by longsuffering

Instead of a "Look what a swell guy I am because of this good deed I did" thread, it might have been better to ask "What random acts of kindness have you been the recipient of?"

I fixed someones sentence once.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I fixed someone's sentence once.

It feels so good to be kind

[freedogger]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It feels so good to be kind.

Yes it does.