Ever had a good deed backfire?

poundapunnet · 06-11-2013 01:51AM

My dad and I were sitting outside a café in Galway once, warty nora (well known homeless woman, alcoholic, very aggressive) came up and started with the "would you have the price of a cup of coffee there sir god bless you I'm homeless" and he said he wasn't going to give her money but he'd take her in to the café and buy her a cup of coffee "well fcuk you anyway you bastard"

She's a dose that one, horrible woman.

The_Mask · 06-11-2013 01:52AM

A friend once stopped to help a broken down motorist whose car battery had died and in his words only because it was late and raining. He jump starts yer mans car with his own jump leads and car, motorist says thanks and drives off, said friend gets back into his own car and turns his ignition only for his battery to be drained.

sammyjo90 · 06-11-2013 01:55AM

Sorry but warty nora is not homeless! she's a mean wan too, used to come into my sisters restaurant demanding free mash potato!

Brego888 · 06-11-2013 01:57AM

pharmaton wrote: »

as long as you have Garda clearance this shouldn't be an issue, it's a requirement for everybody working with kids. (paid or voluntary)

Ah yeah I'm aware of that and I've worked with children as part of my job before. Was just having a chat with a few other males who volunteer with kids recently. Hard to know if it's worth the potential grief and hassle anymore.
Anyway I've taken this thread off topic enough. I'm out.

Maximus Alexander · 06-11-2013 01:58AM

The_Mask wrote: »

A friend once stopped to help a broken down motorist whose car battery had died and in his words only because it was late and raining. He jump starts yer mans car with his own jump leads and car, motorist says thanks and drives off, said friend gets back into his own car and turns his ignition only for his battery to be drained.

You should tell him that you're supposed to leave the engine running when you jump start a car.

GAAman · 06-11-2013 02:04AM

Stabshauptmann wrote: »

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One that annoyed me - a girl on grafton st was shouting at a man to let go of her and leave her alone. In steps mise, "Are you ok". Que her telling me to F off and asking her BF to bash my head in. FFS.

Yeah same vein myself. Walking home after a few hours doing the door and come across a couple having a domestic, and by domestic I mean he was backhanding her like a tennis pro. I intervene and scumbag ends up on his a*se, doth the fair maiden sing my praises? Doth she f*ck

Up she jumps while screaming a scream that would frighten a banshee and proceeds to scratch my face for "going near her fella" so for Christmas 2006 quite a few pictures look like Freddy Krueger went at me in a frenzy

Stinicker · 06-11-2013 02:08AM

I found a smart phone once before and it was just by chance I found it really and I opened it and read the text messages as there was some girl and her boyfriend from Wexford down in Killarney for the weekend. I was rushing at the time and I rang the number of the mother and explained I had found the phone lost and I'd give it into the Garda Barracks for them to collect, she told me she'd ring the boyfriend to get them to collect it.

I handed it in and left my contact details and they never even texted me or rang to say thanks. I thought it was the most ungrateful flippant thing I'd ever encountered. At the time I had just gotten my iPhone like a week before and you can imagine my eyes when I found this samsung smartphone in the carpark walking back to my car which was around the same price as my own phone over €600.00.

I felt an obligation to get it back to the owner as I had just lost my trusty Nokia like a week before getting my new iPhone and at the time would have preffered not to have had to buy a new phone at all. It was so ungrateful and pure stinge not to ring and say thanks as the phone was put in an envelope with the girls name (acquired from the Mum) and my own contact details and left into the garda station for them which was a 10 minute drive out of my way (opposite direction) to my route home. If the situation was reversed and I was stupid enough to lose my phone I'd make sure to track down the kind person who returned it and shove a few bob into their hand for being honest.

poundapunnet · 06-11-2013 02:15AM

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Sorry but warty nora is not homeless! she's a mean wan too, used to come into my sisters restaurant demanding free mash potato!

Are you serious?? Didn't think I could like her less, double feck her and her begging/hassling so

Cycling Dumbasses · 06-11-2013 02:19AM

pharmaton wrote: »

as long as you have Garda clearance this shouldn't be an issue, it's a requirement for everybody working with kids. (paid or voluntary)

Just because one has Garda clearance does not mean one is not a pedophile.

Cycling Dumbasses · 06-11-2013 02:24AM

The_Mask wrote: »

A friend once stopped to help a broken down motorist whose car battery had died and in his words only because it was late and raining. He jump starts yer mans car with his own jump leads and car, motorist says thanks and drives off, said friend gets back into his own car and turns his ignition only for his battery to be drained.

More imagination

pharmaton · 06-11-2013 02:27AM

Cycling Dumbasses wrote: »

Just because one has Garda clearance does not mean one is a pedophile.

Do you mean "not a pedophile"?
if so no but for the poster volunteering with kids it shouldn't be something that stops him from doing so, unless he's a pedophile of course.

wandatowell · 06-11-2013 02:28AM

No.

OhHiMark · 06-11-2013 03:38AM

Stinicker wrote: »

I found a smart phone once before and it was just by chance I found it really and I opened it and read the text messages as there was some girl and her boyfriend from Wexford down in Killarney for the weekend. I was rushing at the time and I rang the number of the mother and explained I had found the phone lost and I'd give it into the Garda Barracks for them to collect, she told me she'd ring the boyfriend to get them to collect it.

I handed it in and left my contact details and they never even texted me or rang to say thanks. I thought it was the most ungrateful flippant thing I'd ever encountered. At the time I had just gotten my iPhone like a week before and you can imagine my eyes when I found this samsung smartphone in the carpark walking back to my car which was around the same price as my own phone over €600.00.

I felt an obligation to get it back to the owner as I had just lost my trusty Nokia like a week before getting my new iPhone and at the time would have preffered not to have had to buy a new phone at all. It was so ungrateful and pure stinge not to ring and say thanks as the phone was put in an envelope with the girls name (acquired from the Mum) and my own contact details and left into the garda station for them which was a 10 minute drive out of my way (opposite direction) to my route home. If the situation was reversed and I was stupid enough to lose my phone I'd make sure to track down the kind person who returned it and shove a few bob into their hand for being honest.

Sounds like you only did it for the glory.

beks101 · 06-11-2013 03:45AM

Katgurl wrote: »

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.

Ugh God, reading that has really angered me, what a horrible mean old bag. You should have told her "you want your phone back so? Right, you can find it on the ground outside X building, I'm about to fcuk it out the fifth floor window"

On-topic: not really a case of a good deed backfiring, but a bit embarrassing nonetheless - was walking home from work one day and passed a busy restaurant with a group of smartly dressed folk in jovial spirits taking group shots outside. I sauntered passed, turning to the well-dressed photo-taker on the way and insisting that I would take the photo for him so he could get into it. I got a "no no no you're grand" "it's no problem! Sure you hop in!" The whole group sort of awkwardly laughed and he said, "I'm the waiter"

Mint Aero · 06-11-2013 03:59AM

Was back in WWII, had an oppurtunity to shoot the enemy but decided since he was unarmed that it be nice of me not to shoot him. He was very grateful and off he went. Well the next day however, the sly bugger shot me.

speedboatchase · 06-11-2013 08:50AM

I gave a homeless man €10 once and he didn't seem to give a ****. Could've gave him €1 and would've got the same ungrateful reaction.

BizzyC · 06-11-2013 08:58AM

Came across a man passed out on the ground on my way to work during the big freeze a few years ago. People were stepping over him, so I stopped, woke him up.
Turned out he was unable to walk properly, bad leg, so I picked him up and helped him a few hundred yards to the dart station.
Gardai came along to have a look, but just left me struggling to carry this lad.

Got him to the dart, bought him a ticket and then realised my coat stank of piss...he had obviously relieved himself while passed out on the footpath.
I was over an hour late for work cause I had to go home and change.

Esoteric_ · 06-11-2013 09:04AM

When I was 14, I saw a woman in the local shopping center drop 110 euro on the ground. Being a kid, it was bloody tempting to take it, but I picked it up and went after her to give it back.

Tapped her on the shoulder, saying 'excuse me,' with the money held out in my hand. She turned around, and just as I was about to say 'you dropped your money,' she grabbed the money with such force from my hand that her fingernails scratched my hand! Ungrateful bint walked off in a huff. I wasn't expecting a reward, but a 'thank you' would have been nice!

I was rewarded the next day, though, when I found 150 euro in an empty field, with no sign of the person who had dropped it

Starscream25 · 06-11-2013 09:05AM

I swopped cars with my bro for a week so I could take his to a mechanic I knew and as I could do without a car for a week as I was close to work.after using up quarter of the tank I made sure to fill it to the point it was before I took it, the brother gave me back a good bit less than when I left it with him, probably about a tener less.
I bring it up and I automatically get the don't be stingy comments

Starscream25 · 06-11-2013 09:09AM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

When I was 14, I saw a woman in the local shopping center drop 110 euro on the ground. Being a kid, it was bloody tempting to take it, but I picked it up and went after her to give it back.

Tapped her on the shoulder, saying 'excuse me,' with the money held out in my hand. She turned around, and just as I was about to say 'you dropped your money,' she grabbed the money with such force from my hand that her fingernails scratched my hand! Ungrateful bint walked off in a huff. I wasn't expecting a reward, but a 'thank you' would have been nice!

I was rewarded the next day, though, when I found 150 euro in an empty field, with no sign of the person who had dropped it

Jesus what is it with finding money in an empty field, I was talking to a chap yesterday he randomly found 8 50 euro notes in the middle of a field once, but ya some people are right ***** alright.

anncoates · 06-11-2013 09:14AM

Bought a retro football jersey a few years ago for playing five a side in. On impulse I bought 2 more for my nephews ((at 30 odd quid a pop) as they support the same team. The look of utter horror on their faces at the thought of having to wear stone age jerseys was profound.

Shut the front door · 06-11-2013 09:14AM

Recently helped someone I thought was a friend through a personally tough time she was having. This was someone I had helped in other ways before such as help with college work etc.

Now I have a knife she so nicely buried in my back,

. I have learned the hard way that people are not really your friend no matter what they say.

What did I learn? No one is your friend, no matter what they say they will walk all over you to get what they want.

Red Crow · 06-11-2013 09:16AM

I was walking back to my car in a Train Station when a fella approached me in a panic. He told me his battery was flat and would I help him. I was more than willing to help him and I had jump cables to start the car. When I got to the car I got a phone call from work and all of a sudden the guy starts asking me to hurry on saying that's its a bit of an inconvenience that I'm on the phone. He then approached me very aggressively while I'm still on the phone and shouts at me 'what the fu(k am I paying you for?'. I asked him to relax and told him I was the one doing him the favour and he would want to calm down. So I got off the phone from work and he turned around to me again and says can you seriously hurry on. I got straight back into my car and drive off.

What a w@nker

gramar · 06-11-2013 09:18AM

speedboatchase wrote: »

I gave a homeless man €10 once and he didn't seem to give a ****. Could've gave him €1 and would've got the same ungrateful reaction.

You could have gotten a 'fcuk off ya lousy prick' for giving him nothing. Sometimes less is more.

crockholm · 06-11-2013 09:24AM

Back in 2009 there was a really warm and dry spell(by Irelands standards,anyway),and I had noticed that there was a big batch of tadpoles in a nearly dried up drain,so at lunchtime I went down there and scooped up as many of them as I could and relocated them to a nice little pond that would give them sanctuary.

It rained torrentially that night for hours on end and the drain filled up.

A week later, our JCB driver sufferring the pangs of boredom,fills in the Little pond with muck,no one asked him to do it,it served no purpose,he was just bored.
All I could do was gaze skywards and say "what the föck!"

I had doomed those poor baby frogs.

Gannicus · 06-11-2013 09:26AM

GAAman wrote: »

Yeah same vein myself. Walking home after a few hours doing the door and come across a couple having a domestic, and by domestic I mean he was backhanding her like a tennis pro. I intervene and scumbag ends up on his a*se, doth the fair maiden sing my praises? Doth she f*ck

Up she jumps while screaming a scream that would frighten a banshee and proceeds to scratch my face for "going near her fella" so for Christmas 2006 quite a few pictures look like Freddy Krueger went at me in a frenzy

Something similar happened a couple of my mates one night. Six of us were walking down Exchequer St to Grafton St one night after being in the International Bar. Having the craic and a laugh and one of the lads was joking with another about his sister and he mate number 2 got annoyed and chased mate number 1 down the street.

We came down no less than a minute later to see the two of them being danced on by 3 blokes and a girl near McDonalds. Anyway needless to say when the other four of us walked around the corner the tables turned and the lads (and girl) took a bit of a licking.

When we asked our mates what happened they said they got around the corner to what they saw as two blokes kicking lumps out of a guy on the ground and the girl trying to break it up as it was her fella they were baiting. The two lads decided to help break it up and turns out it was all a ploy they lot of them turned on me mates and demanded wallets and phones, the lads said no and to their own detriment thought we were much closer to them than we actually were.

They kept their wallets and phones but they had some awful cuts and bruises for their troubles. All they wanted to do was help a bloke who they thought was getting a hiding.

The Pheasant2 · 06-11-2013 09:36AM

Goddamnit! The good deeds thread thawed my mostly cynical heart of ice...this thread is freezing it back up again!

I'd better go find a homeless guy to help and make me feel better!

Katgurl · 06-11-2013 10:53AM

Red Crow wrote: »

I was walking back to my car in a Train Station when a fella approached me in a panic. He told me his battery was flat and would I help him. I was more than willing to help him and I had jump cables to start the car. When I got to the car I got a phone call from work and all of a sudden the guy starts asking me to hurry on saying that's its a bit of an inconvenience that I'm on the phone. He then approached me very aggressively while I'm still on the phone and shouts at me 'what the fu(k am I paying you for?'. I asked him to relax and told him I was the one doing him the favour and he would want to calm down. So I got off the phone from work and he turned around to me again and says can you seriously hurry on. I got straight back into my car and drive off.

What a w@nker

That's really weird. Could he have phoned a call-out service and mistaken you for their mechanic?

Duggy747 · 06-11-2013 11:26AM

Walking home after the niteclub I saw a girl I knew in pieces in a shop front, drunk out of her skull. Picked her up and helped ring her mother while getting strange looks off everyone (I thought they were looking at her because she was fùcked).

Her mother came, gave me an awful scowl and took her away which I didn't take heed of.

Only found out 2 weeks later that everyone thought I was being a complete shìt and that I saw my chance to get with her while she was barely concious. I even had her come up to me one night asking me if we had gotten together that night to which she went:

"Oh.......you didn't!?!"

Franticfrank · 06-11-2013 03:40PM

A friend of mine was taking the train in Germany and there was a guy with one arm struggling to get his heavy suitcase onto the overhead rack. Without thinking, my friend asked "excuse me, do you need a hand". The guy wasn't happy.

Ever had a good deed backfire?

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