Is it worth it? Being nice.

Dravokivich · 13-08-2010 01:29PM

He wanted you for Curtains?

Dunjohn · 13-08-2010 01:36PM

You'll eventually learn to spot the curtain users.

I've gone out of my way to help people with things like what people are talking about here, and I'll keep doing it. A few thankless ones and the odd genuinely negative experience won't embitter me.

Could have run over a lot of people on the way home earlier. Didn't do it.

mathie · 13-08-2010 01:39PM

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

I remember my boyfriend asked me to ask my mate who works in IKEA to give him discount on curtains and Poles and he asked me if I would pick out the curtains for him (he moved into a new apartment) so I said I would, and my mate gave me the discount. I went to my boyfriends house with the stuff and he was delighted.
!

Ikea sell people now?

The Agogo · 13-08-2010 01:40PM

Yes OP it's worth being nice

mink_man · 13-08-2010 01:43PM

only a few posts with thanks so far in this thread, the people of AH are not on form!

Dunjohn · 13-08-2010 01:52PM

mink_man wrote: »

only a few posts with thanks so far in this thread, the people of AH are not on form!

I think that's the whole point of the thread.

CrazyFish · 13-08-2010 01:57PM

Remember I was going to the shop before and found a wallet close enough to it. Looked inside to check for some id but there was none so decided it would be best to hand it into the shop near me because there would be a good chance that is where they would have came from. So I give it to the shop keeper and started looking around the shop to see what I wanted to buy. While I am doing this the a women walks in and asks the shopkeeper did she leave a wallet here. The shopkepper replys "I have your wallet, I found it outside."

I think it was pure cheeky that she claimed she found it. Especially since I was still in the shop.

ejmaztec · 13-08-2010 01:59PM

mink_man wrote: »

only a few posts with thanks so far in this thread, the people of AH are not on form!

Yeh, it's hard being nice, with all these ungrateful feckers pissing on people's fireworks.

CavanCrew · 13-08-2010 02:08PM

I bought this patient a newspaper and chocolate :L and refused to take money for it! Break the bank i know, bt i then didnt have enough money to buy myself some lunch ha. strugglin student times

Felt good helping the man out tho,
Can be a boring aul place at times.

On the other hand, i was pissed drunk one night and went out with 1 phone .. came home with 3 :L

mr_staggerlee · 13-08-2010 02:16PM

l recently found 2 mobile phones, first one on the beach took it home charged and then it started ringing, so answered it and got a mouthful off this woman.....'do you ,you've got my husbands?' explained where l found it and waiting for it to charge to contact the owner, told her where l lived and he could pick it up, he came round in a big feck off 4X4 ,gave him the fancy phone , no thank you. felt that the implication was that l had stole their phone.
swore l wouldn't do that again simply keep it and change sim
however found another one ,phoned the owner and he was polite and grateful

moral is find a big fancy phone that belongs to a rich fecker keep it ,cos the wanker will claim it on expenses

13-08-2010 02:23PM

So many people are just pig ignorant and self absorbed. I don't do things for thanks or reward, but if you go to that much trouble, you would just expect someone to have the manners to at least send a quick e-mail saying thanks. I found someone's bag left on a train once with a wallet with cards, photos, a travel journal with loads of sentimental stuff in it. The girl's email and postal address were on the journal, so I paid a few quid to send it to Canada with a short note explaining where I'd found it. Never heard anything back. I e-mailed her a few weeks later saying I hoped she'd received it, and she wrote back saying 'yeah I got it a few weeks ago.' No thanks, no appreciation, nothing. I'd definitely think twice before going out of my way for someone again.

Also, this is a small one, but I was on the bus in Dublin a while ago and a fat American tourist asked me to tell him when we got to Trinity College. It was a bit annoying, as I was working on something and not paying attention to the road, but I thought 'ah why not'. So I spend the whole journey with it in my head to tell him. When we got there I shouted it out, but he didn't hear me, so I had to get up, go over to him and say 'we're at Trinity now.' He just gets up, grabs his back and goes down the stairs without so much as looking at me. I was so fecking annoyed, I said 'you're VERY welcome!' and he looks at me like I'm the idiot. The Polish couple across from me couldn't believe he wouldn't even say thanks. What the hell is wrong with people?

xoxyx · 13-08-2010 02:24PM

Could the person who got the envelope have contacted you? Were your details on the envelope? Even if they were, some people have their mail opened for them and may have had no idea who returned the receipts. There's no guarantee the person you spoke to initially explained what had happened to the owner of the receipts.

So, they might be very grateful, but you just don't know about it.

Anyway, I'm always dealing with eejits with no appreciation when I try to help them. You just have to realise that a good deed is it's own reward and if somebody is too bad tempered to say thanks they probably have a crappy life anyway.

13-08-2010 02:30PM

Of course it's worth being nice.

If we let assholes determine whether or not we're nice. Then we'd all be assholes.

Be nice - all the time. It's so much easier!

AnonoBoy · 13-08-2010 02:42PM

lyndonjones wrote: »

Ok here is my story...

So the bank should have inconvenienced your wife even more by asking her to go all the way down to the bank again so she could have waited outside the manager's office for 15 minutes before being asked in and sat down for the 10 seconds it would take the manager to say "Thanks for doing that." ???

Something tells me if that had happened you'd be on here giving out about that too.

messymess · 13-08-2010 02:55PM

OP, there's a difference between being 'nice' and being silly.

You found an envelope full of receipts. If it meant that much to the person they probably could have got that transactional information from their credit card or another source. At worse they would have brokered a deal with their boss so they weren't out of pocket. You could have actually done more harm than good if this action has already occured .... so your good deal may have just got someone into ****

Sending the envelope via registered post!?? C'mon! If I had of been half ways arsed it would have been sent there without a stamp so they can pay for the postage. If it doesn't get there, SO WHAT, it's an envelope full of reciepts!!

ejmaztec · 13-08-2010 03:00PM

messymess wrote: »

OP, there's a difference between being 'nice' and being silly.

You found an envelope full of receipts. If it meant that much to the person they probably could have got that transactional information from their credit card or another source. At worse they would have brokered a deal with their boss so they weren't out of pocket. You could have actually done more harm than good if this action has already occured .... so your good deal may have just got someone into ****

Sending the envelope via registered post!?? C'mon! If I had of been half ways arsed it would have been sent there without a stamp so they can pay for the postage. If it doesn't get there, SO WHAT, it's an envelope full of reciepts!!

It probably wasn't anything to do with a government department, so receipts would be obligatory for claims to be made.:P

messymess · 13-08-2010 03:06PM

Heh heh, I wonder did Callely ditch them on the way to the subcommittee who were having the meeting about the meeting that gave him two weeks to explain himself although he already did.

babyfratelli_x · 13-08-2010 03:14PM

You really went out of your way OP the lest you would expect is a thank you. I know people shouldn't do things becoz they expect to be thanked or rewrded-that's not the point...but it's jus plain rude when people don't even acknowledge the effort that someone has made.

Although as a plrevious poster suggested maybe whoever had lost sthe envelope had not been aware of the situation etc.

I always try my best to return stuff... Even in niteclubs, if I'm really drunk I always Hans things into the dj box if I find... Have found 2 Fons and a camera and also the battery from someones camera swell.

I lose stuff all the time, and really am so grateful when people go to an effort to return thinsgs.

Usually I don't get a chance to thank peope for things coz I usually either get them at the lost and found at college or once or twice from niteclubs.

But one time lost my bag, camera and purse separately on a nite in Galway.
(think I left the bag down when it was open and the other **** fell out)
anyway, asked at the cloakroom, no bag bt they had my purse. Great!
Next day my friend gets a msg from some guy sayin I have ur friends bag, picked it up Thoth it was my girl friends, I'll leave it in nuig lost and found.
Went there picked it up, everything in place except camera
Guy was decent enough so didn't expect that he had stolen camera and knew purse had fallen out, Thoth same must have happened to camera

So roll on 2months later I'm a t home in donegal, my friend txt me, I FOUND UR CAMERA IN CASTLEBAR!

A girl came up to her, said shed found a camera, again Thoth it was her friends and took it home. Recognized my friend from the pix and again said that she would throw it into the lost and found in nuig!

Couldn't believe my luck and my friend had no idea who she was!

Never got to say thanks to those people, bt if I could I'd like to let them know how much I appreciate it!

It really is nice to be nice OP don't let a few assholes turn you into one aswell!
You never know when u really could make someones day!

babyfratelli_x · 13-08-2010 03:17PM

Btw plese ignore all typos above, I'm typing on a touch screen and have still to get used to it!

Cheeky_gal · 13-08-2010 03:19PM

Dunjohn wrote: »

You'll eventually learn to spot the curtain users.

Lol

lyndonjones · 13-08-2010 03:53PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

So the bank should have inconvenienced your wife even more by asking her to go all the way down to the bank again so she could have waited outside the manager's office for 15 minutes before being asked in and sat down for the 10 seconds it would take the manager to say "Thanks for doing that." ???

Something tells me if that had happened you'd be on here giving out about that too.

Just explaining my story and how some people hold others in contempt, like your comments

pickarooney · 13-08-2010 04:10PM

babyfratelli_x wrote: »

Btw plese ignore all typos above, I'm typing on a touch screen and have still to get used to it!

I love the way your touch screen assumes you're talking about an Egyptian god.

sam34 · 13-08-2010 04:16PM

i found a wallet at work once, had about €650 cash in it. it was in a large hospital, so it took some time and effort on my part to track down the owner's dept and their contact details.

when i rang her, she huffed and puffed that i had disturbed her during a clinic, and said she couldnt leave her clinic so i "would have to come down to the clinic dept" to meet her. being a slightly timid person, and being taken aback, i agreed, trekked down to find her, only to be left sitting outside the room til she deigned to see me. and she didnt even say thanks, just said "right,ok" and walked away.

fcuking cnut, i was really pissed off.

13-08-2010 04:39PM

That's shlte form.. A wallet with that much money in it nd she was like that? Some people are rotten to the core.

Anyways, fair feks ta ya Op.. I'd only do it though if it looked personal and very important. A company's expenses aren't worth the effort.

CavanCrew · 13-08-2010 04:41PM

sam34 wrote: »

i found a wallet at work once, had about €650 cash in it. it was in a large hospital, so it took some time and effort on my part to track down the owner's dept and their contact details.

when i rang her, she huffed and puffed that i had disturbed her during a clinic, and said she couldnt leave her clinic so i "would have to come down to the clinic dept" to meet her. being a slightly timid person, and being taken aback, i agreed, trekked down to find her, only to be left sitting outside the room til she deigned to see me. and she didnt even say thanks, just said "right,ok" and walked away.

fcuking cnut, i was really pissed off.

what a b*tch!! ah dont worry buddy, karma comes to C*nts in the end.

madrabui · 13-08-2010 04:42PM

It does eventually pay off to be nice.

I lost my wallet with driving licence, laser and credit card, Ids etc in Café en Seine. I was gutted, as I loved the wallet. Someone dropped it into the Donnybrook Garda station with no note. I was thrilled, but a bit sad that I couldn’t say thanks.

It evens out the b1tch I encountered. I found a massive dog (a sort of grey and white St. Bernard). I was living in a tiny house and minded him for the whole day. He had an ID and I was trying to contact the owner all day but the message minder was off. At last at the end of the day with this massive hulk, I contacted the owner. We arranged to meet at the church in Rathfarnham. A massive black range rover comes up and two highlighted blonde women jump out and put their dog into the back. They didn’t even say thanks. They only said ‘How did he get from Foxrock to Rathfarnham?’. You could hear in the tone that she thought she would be mugged if she left Foxrock. I’m still shocked how many years later.

sam34 · 13-08-2010 04:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's shlte form.. A wallet with that much money in it nd she was like that? Some people are rotten to the core.

CavanCrew wrote: »

what a b*tch!! ah dont worry buddy, karma comes to C*nts in the end.

i hope so!

there was no excuse for her to be that rude.

christina_x · 13-08-2010 04:58PM

if you act like an asshole you'l be treated like an asshole, if your kind to others, others will be kind to you. Very simple imo, so yeah.. it's definately worth being nice

PeterIanStaker · 13-08-2010 05:13PM

Its worth being nice. Lifes too short to be a dickhead.

Tar.Aldarion · 13-08-2010 06:14PM

It is.

This go-cart post powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction.

Is it worth it? Being nice.

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