Sometimes, you just gotta do the right thing.

[ericschand]

I too have a few, a couple of them amusing.

I was riding the C-Train and sitting down, all the seats were taken.
On gets this elderly lady who can barely walk, let alone be expected to
stand on the train. There were some young kids there, but they
didn't move.

So I offered her the seat, and she thanked me and sat down.

Then she pipes up, nice and loud, "At least someone has some
chivalry!" As I glanced around, I didn't think there was stuff that
interesting outside the train.

Another time I was in Wendy's. An obviously homeless man was
at the counter trying to figure out what he could buy. He turned
around and had this look. I don't know how to describe it, but it
said hungry. Very hungry. He has enough for a small fries, and
even then with tax it was 3 cents short, but the kid running the
till covered it.

So I got out of line, went up and asked him if he wanted anything
else? He had started with a burger, so I told the kid to put that
on the list and add a drink too, and then paid for it. Mr Homeless
was very thankful about that.

When I went back to my spot in line, you would have thought I
was a leper the way people distanced themselves from me.

Finally, I was in Walmart and in line as a group of elderly disabled
people were checking out. Every till that was open had some
elderly people in it. So I got into line. There were a few chaperones
but they were very busy.

The elderly lady a couple of customers ahead of me could barely
lift a tin can of food, let alone some of the other items in the cart.
So, I jumped ahead, and helped her put the stuff on the belt,
then load her cart so she could go.

She thanked me and offered me some cash, but I said no,
drop it in the charity thing on the way out. Why do they always
think we want money, it's insulting to me? [Amazingly, I went
back to where I had left my cart in line, and the b**ch behind
me had pushed my cart out of the way and decided I wasn't in
line anymore?!? I really gave her cart a thump, moved it, and
got back in line. You just wonder sometimes.]

I had just dropped my car off at the tire repair, as one tire had a
slow leak and they wanted $10 to repair it. I went to pick up my
car and the guy behind the counter says the tire had a nail, so
they pulled and patched it. I give him my credit card, but he says
no charge, he "doesn't feel like entering it into the system."

What goes around, comes around, I guess.

ers

[jam26]

Good thread. My acts of kindness don't really compare to some of these. My most recent experience I had was a couple months ago, while hanging out at my g/f's townhouse. Someone knocked on the door at about 10 p.m. on a Saturday. Normally, the g/f just doesn't answer the door when she's not expecting someone, but I answered it and it was a distraught lady who said she locked herself out of her car and required $9 to pay the locksmith. She also said she's suffering from cancer and was just leaving a friend's house.

Well, I'm not sure her story added up. After all, why couldn't she have asked her friend for help? And why $9 specifically? At any rate, I scrounged up a $5 bill and some toonies and loonies to reach the $9 she requested. "You WILL see this again," she said. She was extremely greatful. Well, I never saw it again, and I do wonder about the legitimacy of her story. But it was only $9. And her gratitude made it worthwhile.

The poppy licence plates are a great concept. I manage to restrain my road rage when the car in front of me has a poppy plate.

[4X4]

Good job Frank. Let me assure you that what goes around comes around... It happened to me:


One day my friend and I were driving around after a huge dump of snow when we happened across an old fellah in a big boat, trying to climb a hill. No problem. My old 4x4 was a towing machine. I hooked up my tow rope and we were at the top of the hill in no time.
Once we were up there, we unhooked the old guy and spied an old lady trying to get her car onto the road, over the big mound of snow that the plows push up against the cars.
Even easier, my buddy and I just sauntered over and started pushing. Boom, shes out.
We're starting to feel pretty good about ourselves and we decide to hit Timmys for some coffee. On the way, we push out another person over the plow mound (anyone got a real name for that?).


Here's the cool thing: We hit the drive thru at Tim Hortons and ordered a coffee and a sandwich each. Bill was about $10. We get up to the window and the cashier tells us that the person in front of us paid for us.

What goes around comes around.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by jam26

Good thread. My acts of kindness don't really compare to some of these. My most recent experience I had was a couple months ago, while hanging out at my g/f's townhouse. Someone knocked on the door at about 10 p.m. on a Saturday. Normally, the g/f just doesn't answer the door when she's not expecting someone, but I answered it and it was a distraught lady who said she locked herself out of her car and required $9 to pay the locksmith. She also said she's suffering from cancer and was just leaving a friend's house.

Well, I'm not sure her story added up. After all, why couldn't she have asked her friend for help? And why $9 specifically? At any rate, I scrounged up a $5 bill and some toonies and loonies to reach the $9 she requested. "You WILL see this again," she said. She was extremely greatful. Well, I never saw it again, and I do wonder about the legitimacy of her story. But it was only $9. And her gratitude made it worthwhile.

The poppy licence plates are a great concept. I manage to restrain my road rage when the car in front of me has a poppy plate.

I had the exact same thing happen to me about 6 months ago. Exact same story.....the story was so stupid....I told her to get lost.....I knew she was lieing to me. What kind of story is that anyhow?

BTW I did ask here why $9.....I said it costs a lot more than that to have a locksmith come down and open a lock.....she said that is all she was short.