Thankless people

keith16 wrote: »

No no no, not saying that at all. I don't believe that nonsense at all. I'm just saying if some people act like dicks it should be expected that they will be treated as such.


I don't at all believe in the whole; "well he got cancer cos he was a gay/Goth/protestant/got the housekeeper pregnant"

Ah, well, that's a different kettle of fish

The worst I heard recently was from my cousin who was at the beach with his own kids during the fine weather in July and noticed this unaccompanied very young child out of his depth in deep water getting into difficulty. He ran in and brought the child back out to the shoreline. The boy was upset and crying and my cousin asked him where his mom or dad was. He escorted him back to his mother who was a good distance away sunbathing and explained how the child got into difficulty.

The mother casually said "That's your good deed done for the day, so!". No thanks or relief or acknowledgement that her child was even out of her watch for that period. Tbh, says more about dreadful parenting then being thankless! I pity the child!

Clandestine wrote: »

Maybe she had bad social anxiety and couldn't muster the courage to say thanks? Things aren't always black and white

if she had bad social anxiety she would hardly have been rambling around debenhams? If she could deal with cashiers etc. surely she could have muttered some form of acknowledgement? True though, we don't always know what's going on in someones head. Maybe shock at OP's gesture?

a lot of Irish people are very shy. she was probably very thankful.

keith16 wrote: »

Not so for getting the housekeeper pregnant?

Maybe a Melanoma or something.

Lost a wallet with a pretty large sum of money in it, meant for putting a deposit on a flat, in Galway about 8 years ago and got a call from the Garda station saying that someone had left it in; think, idiotically, i'd left it on top of a pay station in car park.

When i went to collect it i asked the Garda if they knew who left it in, because i wanted to reward or at least thank the person, but the garda who had been given it had gone off duty and they couldn't find the info.

Went back to the station the next day and tried to find the info but again the garda who received it wasn't there and they couldn't find the info: or maybe whoever did so left it in anonymously.

Was away from Galway for while then before i moved back to move into the flat and between putting it off/forgetting about it never went back again to find out.

Sometimes feel like a bit of thankless f*cker now whenever i think of it because it wouldn't have taken much effort to go back again and pursue it or at least make sure that they hadn't left details.

So on the veryoff chance that someone is reading this who once found a wallet on top of a car park pay station in Galway, left it into the Garda station and never recieved thanks then it was possibly mine and it was much appreciated, to put it mildly.

On the only slightly less off chance that someone is reading this who knows someone who did, then please relay my thanks to them.

Right, that'll go someway towards relieving my conscience, anyway..

Maybe she was just surprised or shocked. Atleast I hope she was. We've all done stupid things because we just aren't thinking. People in Ireland are generally polite even if sometimes the politeness boarders on passive agressiveness.

keith16 wrote: »

I do. Act like a dick, expect to be treated like a dick.

That's not really "karma" though, is it? Just people's reactions to you.

I ordered a nexus from Google. They sent me two. I could have kept both and said nothing. I called them out of pure soundness. They then go ahead and take a second payment after I told them of their mistake. ****ers.