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Nicest thing you did this week?

  • 15-08-2014 9:28pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Yesterday, I baked a massive chocolate biscuit cake and brought it into work with paper plates and forks for everyone.

    Probably the most lick-arsey thing I've done since I started the job but fcuk it, I am now the office hero.

    What's the nicest thing you've done so far this week? Who did it benefit? On a scale of one to ten, how smug do you feel?


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  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Renata Faint Goose


    I um held a door open for someone

    can I just have some of the cake now?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    I helped about a dozen clueless erasmus students with finding accommodation in Galway after they missed out on the room I had listed. Admittedly I was just trying to avoid my thesis, but still, I'm great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    I try to be a right c.u.n.t for the most part of the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Some random person asked me if I had change of a fiver for the bus, I just gave her the bus fare and politely told her to GTF when she tried handing me the fiver.
    I'm a big believer in karma and try to be a nice guy so tend to do a decent enough random acts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭brevity


    I didn't punch my co-workers & I bought my girlfriend flowers.

    Pretty good week IMO


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I did my neighbour's tax return for him and it came back today and he doesn't owe anything. For free.

    If my accountant is reading this, I'm thinking of doing my own from now on ya big crook.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Fcuk I don't think I did anything :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    This mad one brought a cake into work the other day that tasted horrible. I complimented her on it though because I didn't want her to feel bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Drew the turf home for a neighbour.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Renata Faint Goose


    Fcuk I don't think I did anything :(

    JERK


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Paid some foreign lads bus fare today as he assumed the ticket he had was a return.

    or he was chancing his arm either way was delaying me from pints.....

    Dammit not sure if I did a nice thing or not now :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Fcuk I don't think I did anything :(
    Nobody does it better


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    My boyfriend hurt his back, so I dropped over with painkillers, deep heat, dinner, books, cigarettes, and gave him a back massage. Usually I'm quite mean to him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Tolerated my sanctimonius mother-in-law and her simpering smiles. I even missed three shows I love because she was visiting.

    There's no enthusiasm or feedback when I talk to her; she just sits there with a fixed smile on her face and she's so condascending.
    The nice thing I did was not hit her. Or the drinks cabinet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭millie35


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    This mad one brought a cake into work the other day that tasted horrible. I complimented her on it though because I didn't want her to feel bad.

    was it a massive chocolate biscuit cake?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭SaoirseRose


    Got a good friend a job :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    No good deed goes unpunished,........be warned!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Restored an old lads tractor.

    The look on his face when I got her turning over was priceless tbh.


    Didn't even feel guilty when he give me his cheque. :)



    (i should add I was very cheap apparently) fair price, fair job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    millie35 wrote: »
    was it a massive chocolate biscuit cake?

    How did ya know!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭groucho marx


    Got a dominos


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    bluewolf wrote: »
    JERK

    Actually, I did do that :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Got a dominos

    Sorry but no, just no.

    Better pizzas, half the price are out there. ****in hate domino's. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    You might not have agreed if you were the next user of the toilet, but to me it was really nice.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭fuzzydunlop85


    Gave some young lad who was loaded outside the bookies a fiver for a load of ****ty change that amounted to about 1.20 cent, then gave have him enough baccy for a few fags. I admired his honesty,'I'm not even gonna gamble with it I just want a bottle of cider!'. He also then asked me for the euro back for a bag of chips! Where the **** do ya get a bag of chips for a euro these days. Gave it to him and all,then seen walk round the corner to the other bookies down the road. Knew where it was going all along but feel sad for these people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    I gave a friend a heads up on a job opening that he'd be perfect for, even though I'm half considering applying for it myself.

    Neither of us have all the required qualifications, but we'd be aiming at it from two very different backgrounds so I reckon it's fair game :)

    Favours like that will always be remembered.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Shhhhh they're secrets. :p:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Jaysus now I want a chocolate biscuit cake. I've never even had one but I want it more than anything now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    beks101 wrote: »
    Yesterday, I baked a massive chocolate biscuit cake and brought it into work with paper plates and forks for everyone.

    Probably the most lick-arsey thing I've done since I started the job but fcuk it, I am now the office hero.

    What's the nicest thing you've done so far this week? Who did it benefit? On a scale of one to ten, how smug do you feel?

    The nicest thing I did this week was that I thanked your post.

    But then I realised that you didn't offer my any of the cake so I removed it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    robertxxx wrote: »
    No good deed goes unpunished,........be warned!

    Jesus I have some stories ....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭IrishExpat


    Helped eject two oxygen thieving Spanish gypsies from my favourite local cafe after sitting through a 5 minute tirade of racist comments and intimidation directed at the Chinese owner. Wasn't going to get involved any more than verbally until one of the little ****s lit up, blew smoke in my face and asked me if I wanted to fight for looking at him. I obliged him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    IrishExpat wrote: »
    Helped eject two oxygen thieving Spanish gypsies from my favourite local cafe after sitting through a 5 minute tirade of racist comments and intimidation directed at the Chinese owner. Wasn't going to get involved any more than verbally until one of the little ****s lit up, blew smoke in my face and asked me if I wanted to fight for looking at him. I obliged him.

    Hyp.O.Crite.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm great friends with the breakfast lady in the dining hall where I work, and I gave her grandson advice on applying for a course he wants to do, introduced him to someone who could coach him with his application, and a bit of a tour. Lovely lad he was too, hope he's successful next year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,595 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Sauve wrote: »
    I gave a friend a heads up on a job opening that he'd be perfect for, even though I'm half considering applying for it myself. :)
    I scanned that wrongly at first, :eek: and was hoping that you and the friend to whom you gave (a) head(s up) didn't come to blow(s over that) job. :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    Holdonasecond, I just remembered one I'm always doing!

    I left every public toilet I dealt with in better shape than when I came to it, some significantly so. I'm like some kind of creepy public toilet cleaning saint, they'll put murals of me up on the walls of every cubicle in NUIG when I'm gone, looking down at the (hopefully) clean bowls with a big proud smile on my face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Holdonasecond, I just remembered one I'm always doing!

    I left every public toilet I dealt with in better shape than when I came to it, some significantly so. I'm like some kind of creepy public toilet cleaning saint, they'll put murals of me up on the walls of every cubicle in NUIG when I'm gone, looking down at the (hopefully) clean bowls with a big proud smile on my face.

    Everybody walk away. Sloooowly.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭IrishExpat


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Hyp.O.Crite.

    Echoing the frustrations of the locals here who rightly have no time for them either. They aren't regular Spanish, and in the last 6 months or so have really damaged a lot of property in the neighbourhood. Just as well I'm moving on soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Ah aren't ye all lovely, a pack of aul softies in here, who'd a thunk it.

    Except Karl Stein.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I went for a massage. It only benefited me.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This wasn't a good week for doing nice things because I'm on my holipops so my interaction with people was more limited than usual!

    I bought a friend a pressie though!

    Also gave someone directions. Gave some tourists from engerland some ideas for their holipops.

    That's all really :/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I too brought goodies to work, mostly though because I've finished the month training in that area and will be moved elsewhere come Monday. Chocs for the girls in office and gave the boss a gift too. I suppose its brown nosing but I'd rather leave on a high note, knowing I can ask for a reference and having some closure.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Pawn


    beks101 wrote: »
    What's the nicest thing you've done so far this week?
    I have been.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I'm on my holipops

    That's all really :/

    thought this was a hormonal reference at first


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    pharmaton wrote: »
    thought this was a hormonal reference at first

    :pac:

    Yeh that wouldn't be a good week for it either :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    :pac:

    Yeh that wouldn't be a good week for it either :D

    I don't think you'd make a very happy whoopsa if it was "THAT" time of the month.
    I reckon you're a right crank :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    :pac:

    Yeh that wouldn't be a good week for it either :D
    I was trying to figure out how you knew the tourists were also on their holihops :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Went snorkelling yesterday on my day off.

    All on my own.

    Didn't bring my family with me to stand around for two hours watching a fat wetsuited man take photos of fish for his own enjoyment.

    That's it I'm afraid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    beks101 wrote: »
    Ah aren't ye all lovely ... Except Karl Stein.

    AM SORRAAAAY. :'''(

    I bet it was a delicious cake, it was certainly a thoughtful thing to do, and you're probably a lovely person.

    Pax?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Stray dog roaming the estate, was very friendly so brought out a bowl of food and water to her and she wolfed up both. Done a quick look on facebook and a woman had posted up that she was looking for her dog for 5 hours.
    We PM her and within ten minutes her and one of her kids arrived, it turns out the dog was 13 years old and they had feared the old dog had gone off somewhere to die. It was a great scene to see people reunited with a dog that was genuinely one of their family, they both started crying when they saw the dog.
    They dropped down a box of chocs the other day too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Stray dog roaming the estate, was very friendly so brought out a bowl of food and water to her and she wolfed up both. Done a quick look on facebook and a woman had posted up that she was looking for her dog for 5 hours.
    We PM her and within ten minutes her and one of her kids arrived, it turns out the dog was 13 years old and they had feared the old dog had gone off somewhere to die. It was a great scene to see people reunited with a dog that was genuinely one of their family, they both started crying when they saw the dog.
    They dropped down a box of chocs the other day too!
    :o How gorgeous. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Stray dog roaming the estate, was very friendly so brought out a bowl of food and water to her and she wolfed up both. Done a quick look on facebook and a woman had posted up that she was looking for her dog for 5 hours.
    We PM her and within ten minutes her and one of her kids arrived, it turns out the dog was 13 years old and they had feared the old dog had gone off somewhere to die. It was a great scene to see people reunited with a dog that was genuinely one of their family, they both started crying when they saw the dog.
    They dropped down a box of chocs the other day too!

    That's a beautiful story
    Now I have an important question.












    What chocolates were they and is there a reason you're not sharing them?


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