There are still nice people in the world!

EL_Loco · 09-12-2008 05:30PM

as soon as you're in the situation where you feel the need to keep something like that which you find then you know you're fooked.

Smart Bug · 09-12-2008 05:42PM

Doc wrote: »

There are still nice people in the world![/quote]

No there aren't. He's probably put pictures of his cock on your phone.

Fratton Fred · 09-12-2008 05:51PM

Deepsense wrote: »

Not as a rule I must say. Youre just a little bit funny.

And you're just a little bit touchy.

It is so ****ing easy to help people, it really pisses me off when I see people struggling and no one helps them. You see it on planes a lot, a woman with a baby trying to lift a bag into the overhead locker and everyone behind them tutting and getting impatient rather than actually helping, or an old dear struggling to packi her bag at the supermarket while the cashier is there filing her nails and everyone in the queue just huffs.

Pay it forward guys, pay it forward.

Sam Vimes · 09-12-2008 07:12PM

topper75 wrote: »

think of the value of the numbers rather than the phone

www.zyb.com

Never lose your contacts again and make it easy to transfer them to a new phone

hullaballoo · 09-12-2008 07:25PM

That reminds me. A couple of weeks back, I found a phone outside abrakebabra in Cork city. I rang the guy's mum the next day and she was very grateful, but didn't seem to want to make it very easy for him to collect his phone. She wouldn't let me go to the effort of dropping it over to the Garda station. We eventually agreed that I could leave it in my local shop and he'd come down for it.

I left it in with his name on it and enquired the next day to see if he'd been in. The guy in the shop said the phone was still there and I forgot about it since. I wonder if he's been in. If not: HEY GUY, YOUR PHONE'S STILL THERE.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 09-12-2008 07:30PM

Deepsense wrote: »

Hed be 13 now.

Wait a few years until he'd be around 18.

Start a nationwide appeal to find out who he is and where he's living.

Go over to his house and ride him.

No good deed should go unrewarded.

minidazzler · 09-12-2008 08:43PM

When I was Hitchhiking through west cork, I lost my phone in the first car that picked me and my buddy up. They were a Galway couple who were on holidays in Cork. Down by Inchydoney. They were sound out. They rang my Mam, and mailed the phone back to my house!!!! I was soooo delighted but I didn't have a number or address to thank them or send them some reinbursement!!!!!

So, My Galway Girl and Guy. THANK YOU!!! Legendary People

On the same trip. When we were on our way home from the trip, we caught a lift from a guy in Galway all the way back to Limerick. He was from Cork. We were broke, Hungry, thirsty and without food!!! He gave us a Roast Beef sandwich that his daughter had made before he left galway, A Lift to limerick city, and €20 to get more food!!!! We had nothing of value on us so my buddy gave him his St. Christopher medal as a sign of gratitude!!!

Soundest man I have ever met.

These 2 stories and more from my trips have restored my faith in Humanity.

marti101 · 09-12-2008 10:36PM

AH these stories warm the cockles of your heart.When i was in town couple of weeks aga and it was pissing rain.I had my hood up waiting for the bus and this chinese irl comes over and puts her umbrella over my head,so we shared till the bus came.I thought theres still nice people out there.

PeterLT · 09-12-2008 10:41PM

Yesterday in a carpark €20 sliped from my pocket. I haven't noticed that, but one chap did and brought it to my attention. Not much but still an example of honesty. Thanks to him

anonymous_joe · 09-12-2008 10:50PM

I was coming home from town a few months ago now, and got off the bus near the Merrion Centre. This was at about 2 or 3 in the morning, so I wasn't entirely sober. Anyway, as I was walking home, some random French bloke asked me if he was anywhere near Ranelagh. Told him he was nowhere near Ranelagh, he was fairly worried then, because he'd gotten the wrong bus and had no money left. Ended up hailing a taxi and giving him a tenner. Drunken generosity is expensive. :P

Oh and I bought a Spanish couple Dart tickets a couple of weeks ago because I was late and they couldn't understand the machine, so they got out of my way to let me through. One good turn deserves another and all that. :pac:

What's that Yeats line about unremembered little acts of kindness?

Gavin · 09-12-2008 10:59PM

Don't necessarily agree with giving the guy cash. I'd find it a bit insulting, someone offering cash. I don't help people to get a bleedin reward, I do it to help them. (although a smile and thanks is nice)

giggsy664 · 09-12-2008 11:13PM

Maybe get him a yummy breakfast roll (non contaminated obviously), or something christmassy. You could give him a card with a few bob inside!

Jack Sheehan · 09-12-2008 11:19PM

Sam Vimes wrote: »

www.zyb.com

Never lose your contacts again and make it easy to transfer them to a new phone

Thanks for that wonderful tip, that website just DELETED ALL MY NUMBERS.

Christ.

Spunge · 09-12-2008 11:19PM

Bring back the death penalty

pingu_girl · 09-12-2008 11:32PM

A few months ago I found a phone on the ground while walking to work. I rang "mam" in the phone book to say I had found the phone and whoever owned it could collect it in the shop I was working in .

The mother starting shouting at me for waking her so early it was about 10am. Then came into the shop hours later with a pig ignorant head on her, asked for the phone and left without saying thanks. I would of hoped the phone off her head only for the fear of being fired.

Never again.

50 euro and a thank you is more than enough!

gerrycollins · 09-12-2008 11:48PM

not a face full of kindness but a few weeks ago mid suffering a manflu I got a call form the Blood donor clinic. I've donated about 11 times but since I moved out of Dublin I've been unable to do so. They do send me the txt the odd time and I promise myself I'll find out where I can donate locally.

Anyhow I thought they were calling to see if I fell off the face of the planet or something but no they were calling me to get me to donate within the next few days as I and only 11 more people in the country were an exact match for a young girl in temple street hospital with lukemia who was having a series of operations and they needed blood.

so I said feck it I'll come up to Dublin as there was no donation place nearby but as soon as I hung up the phone I remembered i was on Meds for the manflu. I was nearly crying and so annoyed with myself.

I rang back to apoligies to them and say that I couldnt come up but they said dont worry about it etc. however I was told to be on stand by or donate as much as possible because of the make up of my blood??? i was like WTF but hey its my civic duty to donate blood now also I only started to donate as I was bored one day on a day off years ago.

ergonomics · 10-12-2008 12:13AM

This time last year I was driving to college for only the 2nd time. As I came around a corner some souped up car was overtaking coming against me. I had no choice but to go into the ditch and was completely freaking out. All the cars behind me just drove on past, except for one guy. He pulled my car out of the ditch, offered to bring me the rest of the way to my destination (about 20 minutes) and would collect me the next day and bring me back out to my car. I declined because I knew if I didn't get back in the car then I never would, but the fact that he stopped and offered made all the difference. I also forgot to get his name because I was so upset and felt really bad about it.

ScumLord · 10-12-2008 12:20AM

gerrycollins wrote: »

not a face full of kindness but a few weeks ago mid suffering a manflu I got a call form the Blood donor clinic. I've donated about 11 times but since I moved out of Dublin I've been unable to do so. They do send me the txt the odd time and I promise myself I'll find out where I can donate locally.

Anyhow I thought they were calling to see if I fell off the face of the planet or something but no they were calling me to get me to donate within the next few days as I and only 11 more people in the country were an exact match for a young girl in temple street hospital with lukemia who was having a series of operations and they needed blood.

so I said feck it I'll come up to Dublin as there was no donation place nearby but as soon as I hung up the phone I remembered i was on Meds for the manflu. I was nearly crying and so annoyed with myself.

I rang back to apoligies to them and say that I couldnt come up but they said dont worry about it etc. however I was told to be on stand by or donate as much as possible because of the make up of my blood??? i was like WTF but hey its my civic duty to donate blood now also I only started to donate as I was bored one day on a day off years ago.

OOooohhh, well laadedaa mr. fancy blood. :pac:

Why is everyone suggesting €50? That's a good bit of money for a bit of human decency. Whatever happened to thank you and the promise of a pint being reward enough?

Bring em for a pint.

razorblunt · 10-12-2008 12:33AM

I bought a belt for my Dad the other day but it was too big so he asked me to get two more holes cut, so popped into the shoemaker in Douglas Court in Cork, took about 2 seconds to do and I thought it was going to be something crazy price, paid 8 quid to get a button put back on my jeans the other week.

He gave it back and said thrown some money in the charity box there, so I gave whatever change was in my pocket think it was a fiver or something sound fella.

Havent come across anything other than that in a while.

Punchy07 · 10-12-2008 02:59AM

Its good to know they're are nice people left after what I saw sunday night:mad:Was in subway with the friends when a guy comes in,goes to the counter and orders and as he's taking his money out 50 euro falls out of his pocket,which he doesn't notice.So my friend goes over and picks it up and gives it back.The guy was very grateful,thanked him over and over again.

So the guy sits down and in comes another guy who was english and absolutely hammered from the drink,me and my buddies get a great kick off him watching him trying to order his food.Eventually the girl behind the counter just gave him some random sandwich after 5 minutes of confusion

So he too goes off and finds a seat,puts his wallet on the table and starts eating.5 minutes later he gets up and stumbles out again.So me and my friends are talking when I realise the man had left his wallet behind,but Ive bad eyesight so asked my friends first to make sure it was indeed a wallet.

At this point the guy whos 50 euro we returned looks in the same direction we're looking and also sees the wallet.He immediately gets up,goes over,picks up the wallet and heads to the bathroom.Comes back out with a fistful of cash,hands the wallet to a staff member saying" a guy left this here,there was no money in it,just cards".The staff member thanks him,he grabs his bag and heads off,leaving his food behind him:mad:

It ticked us off knowing he could have been 50 euro down but instead ended up leaving with god only knows how much.Definately not the nice grateful man we thought he was at the start of the night!

Doc · 10-12-2008 01:47PM

Just to update I got the phone back from the guys nephew last night he had made no call on it other then for finding me and there was no photos of his dick on it.:P

I thanked him and gave him some money as a reward for his good dead (which he didn’t want to accept but I told him to give it to his uncle)

This was meant to be a happy thread with good stories on it!

We all know their are bad greedy people around but not everything has to be about them on AH dose it? :rolleyes:

Puddleduck · 10-12-2008 01:56PM

Yea, I agree, there is still good people on the planet.

A while back I was driving down to the shop and thicko here and thickos passanger were commenting on how loud the car was (Its a noisy car at the best of times but thats another story)

Turned out my tire was flat and since Id only recently got the car I wasnt sure if I had a jack, before Id a chance to look a guy pulls up, offers to help.

He changed the tyre for me and all. Gave him 10 or 20 euro as a thanks.

Naos · 10-12-2008 02:00PM

How much did you give him Doc?

Doc · 10-12-2008 02:04PM

Naos wrote: »

How much did you give him Doc?

£30 I’m in England and couldn’t afford any more then that but thought it was fair.

Diamond007 · 10-12-2008 02:11PM

My friend was driving me to college last year but there was a diversion and we got lost.. We were pretty upset because we hadnt a clue where we were and it was pretty late. We stopped in a shop that was open to find out where we were and we were way off..

The guy behind us in the queue said he'd help us get back to where we should be if we wanted to follow him even tho it was out of his way.

We were a bit nervous following a stranger but drove behind him for an hour until he got us to wher we should have been, then he just turned around and drove back where we came from..

He was a gent!

There are still nice people in the world!

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