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Good deeds

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  • #32
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    sunnymar wrote: »
    Theres a very elderly couple that live somewhere on my street. Ive seen them walking to and from the shop the odd time. Ive been living here a year and over that time id have helped the lady walk down the slope on the path (shes very poor mobility). Ive always wanted to knock into them, give them my number and tell them that i'll go to the shop and get their messages if they want me to. Is that too weird though? Ive stopped myself from doing it because I thought it might make them/me awkward. do people do stuff like that anymore?

    that's really nice of you, but it'd be best if you got more acquainted with them before that. I mean even if you were to bump into them coming from the shop they go to, cause then you could offer to carry the stuff back, and maybe bring it up then?


  • #33
    sunnymar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭sunnymar


    stupidusername wrote: »
    sunnymar wrote: »
    Theres a very elderly couple that live somewhere on my street. Ive seen them walking to and from the shop the odd time. Ive been living here a year and over that time id have helped the lady walk down the slope on the path (shes very poor mobility). Ive always wanted to knock into them, give them my number and tell them that i'll go to the shop and get their messages if they want me to. Is that too weird though? Ive stopped myself from doing it because I thought it might make them/me awkward. do people do stuff like that anymore?

    that's really nice of you, but it'd be best if you got more acquainted with them before that. I mean even if you were to bump into them coming from the shop they go to, cause then you could offer to carry the stuff back, and maybe bring it up then?


    Good thinking, they'd probably wonder who the hell I was if I just knocked on their door :-)

    I think I just need to get over my own awkwardness next time I see them.


  • #34
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    sunnymar wrote: »
    Theres a very elderly couple that live somewhere on my street. Ive seen them walking to and from the shop the odd time. Ive been living here a year and over that time id have helped the lady walk down the slope on the path (shes very poor mobility). Ive always wanted to knock into them, give them my number and tell them that i'll go to the shop and get their messages if they want me to. Is that too weird though? Ive stopped myself from doing it because I thought it might make them/me awkward. do people do stuff like that anymore?
    They will most likely tell you to ......


  • #35
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    sunnymar wrote: »
    Theres a very elderly couple that live somewhere on my street. Ive seen them walking to and from the shop the odd time. Ive been living here a year and over that time id have helped the lady walk down the slope on the path (shes very poor mobility). Ive always wanted to knock into them, give them my number and tell them that i'll go to the shop and get their messages if they want me to. Is that too weird though? Ive stopped myself from doing it because I thought it might make them/me awkward. do people do stuff like that anymore?

    People DO stuff like that :)

    Good on you.


  • #36
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭stoneill


    As I was leaving the Vue cinema in Liffey Valley I noticed that there was a large queue to buy tickets at the main counter. I stopped and told the lady with two kids at the end of the queue to go to the ice cream counter and get her tickets there, no queue and get the tickets quicker.

    Actually that's a bit of a shít story.


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  • #37
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    stoneill wrote: »
    As I was leaving the Vue cinema in Liffey Valley I noticed that there was a large queue to buy tickets at the main counter. I stopped and told the lady with two kids at the end of the queue to go to the ice cream counter and get her tickets there, no queue and get the tickets quicker.

    Actually that's a bit of a shít story.

    Actually, that's a great story. You have the knowledge, you share the knowledge. High five for you son, high five and a down low fo sho...


  • #38
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Stick your karma where the sun don't shine.


  • #39
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Stick your karma where the sun don't shine.


    Ok :(


  • #40
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    My good deed was letting the person who no longer lives in my block and who rang my apartment so they could get in and check their post at 8am this morning (on a Sunday) in, instead of telling them to feck right off like I felt like doing.

    Actually, they may not have been checking their post at all and could have been stalking somebody in my block and I just aided them, but what the hell-I felt like I was being nice at the time.


  • #41
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    I love doing good deeds.

    One of my favourites is something I posted on here once before about. It was years ago and I was working for a big newspaper. There was a crosssword every fortnight and the prize was a set of encyclopaedias (worth the guts of about $AU500 back then).

    Every so often I'd be asked to pull out the winner from a huge sack of entries. If I got someone from the Northern suburbs, I always put it back in and kept picking one out till I got someone from a poor area.

    I loved ringing them and telling they had won. Every so often they would literally break down on the phone, saying how much it would help their kids in school and they could never have afforded to buy them outright.

    Doing good deeds makes me feel good :)


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  • #42
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    cloud493 wrote: »
    How many of us do good deeds? I mean, we all just want to do enough to get through our lives with the minimum of fuss. But sometimes its nice to do little things for people. Karma and all that. So what have you done recently, to constitute a good deed/

    There is a girl that sells the Herald every Sunday outside the Cathedral opposite my block of flats. I saw her freezing one day in the cold, and thought poor you. So I made her a flask of tea, and brought it down to her with a packet of chocolate chip cookies to cheer her up. She was delighted to get a hot drink to warm herself up.


  • #43
    sunnymar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭sunnymar


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    cloud493 wrote: »
    How many of us do good deeds? I mean, we all just want to do enough to get through our lives with the minimum of fuss. But sometimes its nice to do little things for people. Karma and all that. So what have you done recently, to constitute a good deed/

    There is a girl that sells the Herald every Sunday outside the Cathedral opposite my block of flats. I saw her freezing one day in the cold, and thought poor you. So I made her a flask of tea, and brought it down to her with a packet of chocolate chip cookies to cheer her up. She was delighted to get a hot drink to warm her up.


    Aw! Thats lovely!


  • #44
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Stick your karma where the sun don't shine.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76383786


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