Ever had a good deed backfire?

Yes.
Today I went to the vending machine promising myself a bag of crisps only and no sugary food as I want to cut doen on my sugar intake.
When the bag of crisos were falling they got stuck at the bottom. To dislodge I decided to get a chocolate bar that was above it but alas it just landed on top.
I then had to get a can of cola from the drinks section to try and shift the other pair and hey presto it worked.
I felt obliged to eat and drink it there and then.
My good deed by not eating sugar outdone by a dumb machine.

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Yes.
Today I went to the vending machine promising myself a bag of crisps only and no sugary food as I want to cut doen on my sugar intake.
When the bag of crisos were falling they got stuck at the bottom. To dislodge I decided to get a chocolate bar that was above it but alas it just landed on top.
I then had to get a can of cola from the drinks section to try and shift the other pair and hey presto it worked.
I felt obliged to eat and drink it there and then.
My good deed by not eating sugar outdone by a dumb machine.

Refusing to eat sugar is hardly a good deed though? I don't do heroin, does that count as a good deed?

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Yes.
Today I went to the vending machine promising myself a bag of crisps only and no sugary food as I want to cut doen on my sugar intake.
When the bag of crisos were falling they got stuck at the bottom. To dislodge I decided to get a chocolate bar that was above it but alas it just landed on top.
I then had to get a can of cola from the drinks section to try and shift the other pair and hey presto it worked.
I felt obliged to eat and drink it there and then.
My good deed by not eating sugar outdone by a dumb machine.

Ah, the good old vending machine roulette, lose a bag of crisps one day, get a free can of coke another day.

I tip my hat to you sir, a true maverick at this game of winners and losers

Deleted User wrote: »

When I lived with my parents
Got home early from the pub ine evening and found my teenage sister and her friends "experimenting" with the drinks cabinet.
Rat arsed the lot of them, so I had to get them home, the earbashing I got from their parents was unbelievable (they assumed I got the girls langered!), but at least I got a few apologies the next day.

This story had so much potential.

Yes, I was out with a huge group of friends and friends-of-friends one night. The place emptied out early (school night) except for myself and one friend who were last to leave. As we walked out I noticed an iPhone on the ground. I put it in my bag and went home to bed. The next morning in work I left phone on my desk assuming someone would phone and help solve the puzzle. 'home' flashed up about a half hour later, it was the owner's mother. I answered, explained I had the phone, gave my direct work landline, my name, where i worked and all the rest for her to pass on to the owner.

When my landline rang instead of the gushing thanks I was expecting, I got a very weird onslaught of questioning from a girl who I remembered from the night before saying things like "explain to me very carefully how my phone came to be in your possession". A few minutes later a guy phoned (friend of hers) and asked me a load of similar questions - all very aggressive. The phone rang again and it was my friend (vaguely knew the iPhone owner) saying she had received a call from the lunatic owner basically accusing me of stealing the phone.

I have no idea what she thought - that I stole the phone, then bottled it and decided to return it.

I was so baffled by the whole thing I didn't even have the cop at the time to tell her what an ungrateful c*^t she was.

Ah Katgurls story reminds me off another good one. Not necessarily a backfire but you'll get the gist.

My dad has often told the story of finding a handbag in a phone box in the mid 1980's. And in the bag there was around 3000 Irish pounds cash. A significant amount of money at that time and gods knows what the equivalent with inflation would be today. Probably €10,000 to €20,000 at a guess.

Anyway he hands it in to the gardai leaving his address in case it was never claimed. A week later a note came on a scrape of paper in the post. "Thanks for finding my handbag" and included was a cheque for 6 pounds! Now my dad said he was never expecting a rewarding but to give him a 6 pound reward was just comical. Would have be better off sending nothing. Such a random number

El Guapo! wrote: »

I was just reading through the good deeds thread and it got me thinking about the times when good deeds have backfired or gone horribly wrong on me.

One time, only a few months ago, I was out walking my dog in the park and throwing a tennis ball for him. I was just about to go home when I spotted a kid about 12, on his own with his dog. He was watching me throw the ball back and forth and I noticed he didn't have anything to throw for his own dog.

He looked kinda sad so I walked over and asked him if he wanted my tennis ball. I said he can keep it because I've got loads more at home. He looked freaked out and just said "No" and ran off with his dog.

I was left standing there confused, still holding the tennis ball in my outstretched hand.

It was at that moment I realised I looked like a paedophile.
I mean, what sort of grown man goes around the park offering tennis balls to lonely kids and their dogs?!!

Anyway, as the title says, have you ever had a good deed monumentally backfire?

No offence OP but he prob thought you were a jimmy savile, i presume his parents have warned him of this situation.

It's a sad state of affairs when a man can't make even the smallest of kind gestures to a child without being thought of as a paedophile.

Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »

Thats health and safety for you, always do you risk assessment.

Health and safety be damned. It's a sad indictment of our society that any man interacting with kids could possibly be tarred as a paedophile

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/bijan-ebrahimi-disabled-iranian-who-stood-up-to-vandals-smeared-as-a-paedophile-beaten-up-and-burnt-to-death-29706760.html

Absolute madness

Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »

You have to live in the real world now not imagination land.

Nice. I do live in the real world. Unfortunately the real world means I'm less likely in the future to do much of the volunteer work I've previously done with underage football teams and other youth groups that I enjoyed.