Most prickist thing and kindest thing you've seen people do

Crock Rock

We have a thread on stingiest things, I can't see any reason why we can't have a hybridised thread of most prickish and most generous things you've seen people do.


Here's mine.

Most prickish:


I was at a filling station after filling my car. A man was in front of me in the queue and had asked for two large bags of coal and two bails of briquettes. He wasn't a large man, but he wasn't petite either. He was roughly my build (I'm 171 cm and 72 kg BTW).


After he paid, the girl at the till handed him a key and told him where the stuff was and to help himself after paying and drop the key back in when he's finished. He looked at her with an ice-cold look ... why are you giving me that key? She replied "to get your coal and briquettes". He replied, "aren't you the sales assistant?" .... He wouldn't budge, he expected the girl who was 18-ish and built like a few twigs to carry the stuff because he thought it was her job and it was beyond him as a grand high-up customer.


I told her to stay put and I'll do it, I wanted to embarrass him as much as possible, so I offered to carry them instead. She sheepishly walked out alongside us, probably afraid of getting in trouble because she couldn't carry out the request. I loaded them into the boot. The cunt drove off without saying anything, the poor wee girl looked like she was welling up and was going to burst out crying any moment, I didn't know what to say.


Most generous:

I was in Belfast visiting with old work friends and colleagues, we were in a Noodle bar (I'm from Dublin) I was up seeing friends. We heard a commotion coming from another table from a couple who we later found out were Swiss. They were screaming in German. The woman barged off in tears, I smirked at him and said "In the doghouse pal?".


He told me in English that they got their return flight dates wrong and they were meant to be flying back from Dublin THAT DAY! The flights were in 4 hours! They only found out by chance when they were rooting for Sterling notes and just glanced at their boarding passes which were in there too.


There was no way they would have made it on public transport (or even be guaranteed a place on the bus). One of my friends who was parked around the corner told them to quickly grab their bags in the B&B around the corner and leg it back ...


He offered to drive them back to Dublin ♥ He absolutely booted it down the road and got them to their flight in perfect time ... The Swiss couple sent him an envelope with 250 CHF in it later on. :pac:

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doolox

...to carry heavy stuff for customers or not sell heavy stuff.

The guys attitude appears at first hand to be bad but maybe he had a medical condition or some other impediment to lifting heavy stuff, who knows???

Some elderly people can be brittle and blunt in their approach when seeking help but it sometimes springs from an inherent disability or lack of strength which they are extremely reluctant to admit or reveal.

This does not make them pricks or bad people.

ziedth

Worked in retail for the bones of 15 years up until last year. In that time worked for Superquinn in the celtic tiger and Dealz in and through the recession. You'd think you might get more grief and see worse in discount retail but nothing comes close to the entitled pricks who would go into SQ during the 00's. Hard to think of one example above others but just countless times you would see customers treat staff like they were dirt.




Kindest thing is easy, we were in Vegas for my stag almost 10 years ago and pulled a late one in a bar "Downtown" thing about Vegas I now know is that the strip is one of the safest places in America (it would have to be for the money it generates) but other parts are quite rough. Anyway, we fall out of a casino maybe 2am and it's like a ghost town and we're wandering up downtown singing the parting Glass generally being typical pissed up Irish abroad.

We reach the top of the pedestrian area and a taxi driving the opposite side of the road slams the breaks and does a U turn and pulls up to us and guy strangely panicked shouts "hop in guys" we say we're fine and he sternly says "please get in" we just close the door and see behind us was about 6 guys from something out of Boyz in da hood and one had one of those flick butterfly knife things and screamed something at us like "keep yo ass was out of Vegas"

In the commotion of taxi driver dropping back to the strip and being pissed I didn't fully realise what had happened until the next morning and I dont6even think I thanked him. Still regret that to this day.

Rockn

The filling station guy wasn't Bill Burr by any chance?

wakka12

doolox wrote: »

...to carry heavy stuff for customers or not sell heavy stuff.

The guys attitude appears at first hand to be bad but maybe he had a medical condition or some other impediment to lifting heavy stuff, who knows???

Some elderly people can be brittle and blunt in their approach when seeking help but it sometimes springs from an inherent disability or lack of strength which they are extremely reluctant to admit or reveal.

This does not make them pricks or bad people.

Yeh but no reason to be rude about it. We can only take people as they are not be like 'oh hes being a prick but maybe hes having a bad day or trouble at home so leave him off', theres never justification for taking out your personal problems on innocent people who are arent doing anything wrong

bottlebrush

doolox wrote: »

...to carry heavy stuff for customers or not sell heavy stuff.

The guys attitude appears at first hand to be bad but maybe he had a medical condition or some other impediment to lifting heavy stuff, who knows???

Some elderly people can be brittle and blunt in their approach when seeking help but it sometimes springs from an inherent disability or lack of strength which they are extremely reluctant to admit or reveal.

This does not make them pricks or bad people.

Wonder who lifted them out of the boot when he got home. . .

Ficheall

Crock Rock wrote: »

171 cm and 72 kg

What's that in real money?

Crock Rock

Ficheall wrote: »

What's that in real money?

:rolleyes: Those measurements ARE real money, and have been since 1978.

Rory28

Ficheall wrote: »

What's that in real money?

5.5ft and 11 stone roughly

murpho999

Ficheall wrote: »

What's that in real money?

1.71 meters and 7200 grams.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

ziedth wrote: »

Worked in retail for the bones of 15 years up until last year. In that time worked for Superquinn in the celtic tiger and Dealz in and through the recession. You'd think you might get more grief and see worse in discount retail but nothing comes close to the entitled pricks who would go into SQ during the 00's. Hard to think of one example above others but just countless times you would see customers treat staff like they were dirt.




Kindest thing is easy, we were in Vegas for my stag almost 10 years ago and pulled a late one in a bar "Downtown" thing about Vegas I now know is that the strip is one of the safest places in America (it would have to be for the money it generates) but other parts are quite rough. Anyway, we fall out of a casino maybe 2am and it's like a ghost town and we're wandering up downtown singing the parting Glass generally being typical pissed up Irish abroad.

We reach the top of the pedestrian area and a taxi driving the opposite side of the road slams the breaks and does a U turn and pulls up to us and guy strangely panicked shouts "hop in guys" we say we're fine and he sternly says "please get in" we just close the door and see behind us was about 6 guys from something out of Boyz in da hood and one had one of those flick butterfly knife things and screamed something at us like "keep yo ass was out of Vegas"

In the commotion of taxi driver dropping back to the strip and being pissed I didn't fully realise what had happened until the next morning and I dont6even think I thanked him. Still regret that to this day.

Boooooooring. We want examples!

poisonated

The nicest thing someone did for me was when I had just taken an overnight bus to Kansas City and having breakfast I got chatting to a local. knew that I didn’t know the city so spent hours showing me around the city. The worst was when I was in school and went over to one of the new kids and introduced myself, he got his snotty tissue and rubbed it in my face.