Good deeds you've done

johnners2981 · 27-11-2011 01:51AM #1

Was just chilling out, playing some cluedo as you do on a Saturday night.

Hear a knock on the door and was wondering who the hell that is. I live in the middle of nowhere so its very unusual to have someone knocking on the door during the day never mind at midnight.

Go to the door and see two silhouettes and I'm thinking, ah please don't be two knackers trying to try rob me. I open the door anyway and there's two young lads looking for the gaa complex, there's some 18th on. I give them directions to it and am about to go back inside but I feel a bit sorry for them cause the car's sitting in the drive, these two fellas are lost having been walking for an hour already and it'll take them another 45min to walk to the the complex and are soaked cause it's pissing rain.

So being the gentleman I am I offer them a lift and they very graciously accept but when I head out to the car another three of their friends appear, I wasn't expecting that and nearly had second thoughts about giving 5 of them a lift but sure I couldn't really send them on their way.

Anyway I give them all a lift, I've never been thanked so much in my life , especially seeing as it just took ten minutes of my time so I felt quite pleased about helping some people out.

Hardly the most exciting thread on after hours but thought I'd share and hear what good deeds you folks have been doing

John Doe1 · 27-11-2011 01:52AM

I wanked off a tramp, it was worth it for his smile:)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 27-11-2011 01:55AM

rescued a kid from drowning in a river about seven or eight years ago, havent done anything useful since and I think I probably don't have to for another while yet

LETHAL LADY · 27-11-2011 01:55AM

I encouraged someone recently to seek help for their crippling depression.

orourkeda · 27-11-2011 01:55AM

I returned a guys wallet to him on Grafton Street one day. Thats about the best I can do I'm afraid.

I didnt steal it either

Sky King · 27-11-2011 01:55AM

Some random dude lent me a crowbar today in a petrol station to crowbar up a drain and get my keys out from where I'd dropped them. Before he gave me it he made me promise I wouldn't jack the petrol station with it.

With a fking crowbar! What the hell like?

Anyway, thank you kind sir, and godspeed.

Saila · 27-11-2011 01:56AM

let me guess, you're built like a brick shit house arent you

InkSlinger67 · 27-11-2011 01:57AM

johnners2981 wrote: »

.....there's two young lads looking for the gaa complex

Psychology forum that way

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Sky King · 27-11-2011 01:58AM

let me guess, you're built like a brick **** house arent you

No, I am quite innocuous and look it. And I was hung over. Though I was driving a Dyna pickup so he probably thought I was a nah.

Chuck Stone · 27-11-2011 01:59AM

I've given people at bus stops, heading inbound towards town, lifts the odd time.

Been asked for directions in the car a few times and if it's not too far away I'll give a lift - if they're in a car themselves I'll say follow me and lead them there.

Got asked for directions to Jurys Hotel by a bunch of English lads in a car once and as I was explaining I said 'ah feck it - just follow me I'll drive there' when I got them there they said 'will you come in mate and we'll buy you a few drinks' I politely declined but it feels nice to be nice.

TheUsual · 27-11-2011 02:01AM

Bought some food, all for myself.

Cooked it.

Ate it.

Was pretty awesome.

tittle mouse · 27-11-2011 02:01AM

Yesterday i lost my phone and i was kicking myself because i had alot of numbers on the phone that i needed, anyway accepted that it was probably gone for good...anyway my mam got a phone call today from a woman who'd found my phone and she returned it to me, i was so grateful and gave the woman a tin of quality street just a small thank you.

Its great to know theres still honest people out there

and really put a smile on my face.

The last good deed i did was returning a purse to an elderly woman, it had alot of money in it and she was very grateful to me..it was 2 weeks pension and it was money she was using to buy all all her Christmas presents.

johnners2981 · 27-11-2011 02:02AM

Come on where's the life saving good deeds?

Cause then we'd know who Batman is

Johro · 27-11-2011 02:02AM

Saila wrote: »

let me guess, you're built like a brick shit house arent you

'T-t-t-take it... P-pp-p-please don't hit me with it... ' *flinches*

AnonoBoy · 27-11-2011 02:07AM

johnners2981 wrote: »

Anyway I give them all a lift, I've never been thanked so much in my life , especially seeing as it just took ten minutes of my time so I felt quite pleased about helping some people out.

The sixth lad that you didn't see cleared out all your wife's jewellery upstairs while you were driving the others up the road though. Tough break Good Samaritan.

stovelid · 27-11-2011 02:07AM

Existing.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-11-2011 02:07AM

A sweet friend of mine from college got a little sidetracked in his life and ended up owing money to two notorious scumbags from our area. I who was earning at the time payed it off from him as I feared what would happen if the debt wasn't paid. The guy has since qualified as an accountant and is working in Canada, it makes me feel good that I helped him through that rough patch.

psychward · 27-11-2011 02:07AM

I found a wallet with 200 euro in it and a TCD student card lying on the pavement in broad daylight. I dropped it into the Guards. The Garda looked surprised. He gave me some receipt to claim it in one year in the unlikely event that the owner didn't make an appearance. Of course I lost the damned receipt but I'm pretty sure it must have been claimed as there was ID inside.

igorbiscan · 27-11-2011 02:09AM

yeah,twas a good deed indeed sir,but isn't that the way of the decent people,"sure they'd go out of their way for you",and thats the way its been done as a normality in ireland for ages except its not a given anymore,sad but true, so fair play and how clueless were those fellas??
:pac:

johnners2981 · 27-11-2011 02:13AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The sixth lad that you didn't see cleared out all your wife's jewellery upstairs while you were driving the others up the road though. Tough break Good Samaritan.

I'm not married and live in a bungalow, but that is sad to hear. Tough break on the married guy that lives in that two storied house that got robbed by the sixth lad

Chuck Stone · 27-11-2011 02:14AM

Was walking home once and spotted a bunch of keys still left in the keyhole of the boot of a car.

Went on a ram-raid frenzy... na, rang the door and handed 'em in. That woman was really pleased and that made me feel good.

johnners2981 · 27-11-2011 02:18AM

igorbiscan wrote: »

yeah,twas a good deed indeed sir,but isn't that the way of the decent people,"sure they'd go out of their way for you",and thats the way its been done as a normality in ireland for ages except its not a given anymore,sad but true, so fair play and how clueless were those fellas??
:pac:

Think they had a few drinks, its pitch black and they were walking from a village, ages away, to the complex. Don't know why they didn't get a taxi cause they were offering me money for the lift and it's some walk even during the day, the rain isn't bucketing down and you know where you're going

MyKeyG · 27-11-2011 02:22AM

Bitter sweet examples.

Once I saw a woman walk away from the banklink with her card in it. I was absolutely shocked. Her balance was on display and I could have helped myself. I took out the card and gave it to her explaining what she had done. She didn't even look at me. She said 'Jesus what's wrong with me' took the card and walked off without so much as a thank you.

Another time I found a purse in a pub. There was about 90 pounds in it so I checked the ID and asked one of my friends if she knew such and such. She said 'yeah that's her there'. I went up and said 'Sorry you dropped your purse over there'. She took it, turned to her friend and said 'Oh my god look what I did, I'm such an eejit' and she didn't turn back. I might as well have been invisible.

Whatever about the woman on the street in a muddle I really thought the girl could have thanked me. Yes it's wrong to rob people and I didn't do anything that wasn't expected of a moral person but there's nothing wrong with a bit of gratitude.

Maybe I was reared differently. I remember when we were kids and our dog went missing. He turned up at the pound and the man gave us the name of the person who brought him in. My dad called round and gave him a tenner out of appreciation. This was easily 20 years ago so ten bob for handing in a dog wasn't a bad score.

scudzilla · 27-11-2011 02:28AM

About a month ago i was in work, Barrow Street, and outside having a smoke.

This guy comes running outta the Dart station and goes behind the new tall Google building, i go for a walk to see what he was up to as a lot of shout from round that corner.

As i get to the end by the Canal he comes out (only a really short guy), is wearing Irish Rail uniform, and says there's a dog drowning in the canal.

I go up to the waters edge and see this poor dog, took my jacket off and was ready to go in, i lied on the floor and called the dog, his head was going under, decided to make 1 grab and then would go in, his head went under and i grabbed his collar and pulled him out.

The fcuker just ran off!!! Loads of people on the Dart platform cheered, felt pretty good.

2 nights later was outside at roughly the same time having a smoke and who's walking past on the opposite side of the road but the dog, i called him, he ran over and went nuts for 10 seconds, then ran off, never seen him since.

Chuck Stone · 27-11-2011 02:32AM

scudzilla wrote: »

I go up to the waters edge and see this poor dog, took my jacket off and was ready to go in, i lied on the floor and called the dog, his head was going under, decided to make 1 grab and then would go in, his head went under and i grabbed his collar and pulled him out.

The fcuker just ran off!!! Loads of people on the Dart platform cheered, felt pretty good.

That really is a cool story bro.

Jesus Wept · 27-11-2011 02:51AM

MyKeyG wrote: »

Bitter sweet examples.

Once I saw a woman walk away from the banklink with her card in it. I was absolutely shocked. Her balance was on display and I could have helped myself. I took out the card and gave it to her explaining what she had done. She didn't even look at me. She said 'Jesus what's wrong with me' took the card and walked off without so much as a thank you.

Another time I found a purse in a pub. There was about 90 pounds in it so I checked the ID and asked one of my friends if she knew such and such. She said 'yeah that's her there'. I went up and said 'Sorry you dropped your purse over there'. She took it, turned to her friend and said 'Oh my god look what I did, I'm such an eejit' and she didn't turn back. I might as well have been invisible.

Whatever about the woman on the street in a muddle I really thought the girl could have thanked me. Yes it's wrong to rob people and I didn't do anything that wasn't expected of a moral person but there's nothing wrong with a bit of gratitude.

Maybe I was reared differently. I remember when we were kids and our dog went missing. He turned up at the pound and the man gave us the name of the person who brought him in. My dad called round and gave him a tenner out of appreciation. This was easily 20 years ago so ten bob for handing in a dog wasn't a bad score.

Similar experiences, most people are cretins. Makes me sad.

Professey Chin · 27-11-2011 02:55AM

Covered a friends rent when I knew she was having some financial trouble(hospital bills) would probably be the best thing

maxfresh · 27-11-2011 03:16AM

johnners2981 wrote: »

Was just chilling out, playing some cluedo as you do on a Saturday night.

Hear a knock on the door and was wondering who the hell that is. I live in the middle of nowhere so its very unusual to have someone knocking on the door during the day never mind at midnight.

Go to the door and see two silhouettes and I'm thinking, ah please don't be two knackers trying to try rob me. I open the door anyway and there's two young lads looking for the gaa complex, there's some 18th on. I give them directions to it and am about to go back inside but I feel a bit sorry for them cause the car's sitting in the drive, these two fellas are lost having been walking for an hour already and it'll take them another 45min to walk to the the complex and are soaked cause it's pissing rain.

So being the gentleman I am I offer them a lift and they very graciously accept but when I head out to the car another three of their friends appear, I wasn't expecting that and nearly had second thoughts about giving 5 of them a lift but sure I couldn't really send them on their way.

Anyway I give them all a lift, I've never been thanked so much in my life , especially seeing as it just took ten minutes of my time so I felt quite pleased about helping some people out.

Hardly the most exciting thread on after hours but thought I'd share and hear what good deeds you folks have been doing

are you grooming them

dr gonzo · 27-11-2011 03:20AM

Jesus, this thread makes me feel terrible, i havent done a damn thing in my life like these.

My dad has a quite a few though, one in particular always stood out to me. My parents are separated so its quite rare that i hear my mam say a nice word about my dad but one time (i forget how it came up) she turned to me a told me a story my dad had never once mentioned to myself or my brother. When my older brother was just a baby my parents, after a night out, arrived home to find our neighbours house in flames and the family freaking out outside. So my parents ran up to the couple that owned it to be then told that their newborn was still inside. Without a seconds thought my aul lad bolted into the house, up the stairs, grabbed the baby and legged it back outside. It turned out afterwards that the immersion had been left on and had exploded.

I think even though my parents dont get along my mam will always remember that moment because despite everything, she knows hes the kind of guy who'd do that.

psychward · 27-11-2011 03:33AM

dr gonzo wrote: »

So my parents ran up to the couple that owned it to be then told that their newborn was still inside. Without a seconds thought my aul lad bolted into the house, up the stairs, grabbed the baby and legged it back outside.

Fair play to your dad but I'm not so impressed by either parents of the newborn baby who apparently were not going to do anything...

christ on a bike! · 27-11-2011 03:37AM

Virtue is its own reward

I was particularly flush one time, by fluke, had a neighbours family who had a shocking unfair horrible time, death of a parent and the other confined to a wheelchair within the space of a month. We had a fundraiser, as our community does, funds would provide a disabled car and refit the house. It fell short but I was in a position to fill the gap anonymously. I still feel great about it - there's no such thing as a selfless act, but still, it's nice to do these things

Good deeds you've done

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