Why be a nice guy?

She was prolly too old to remember she hadn't. Prolly too old to be driving too. You know how old people are, always forgetting stuff. It was nice of you to help her though.

 

You did the right thing. Some people just don't have a clue! Yeah sometimes you're going to get burned, but overall, most people would be appreciative.

 

Glad you took the time to help Her. However it sounds to me like you haven't spent much time around Old People. We are not as Rude or Thankless as some would think. It's just that if you add a little stress and things out of the norm we tend to forget others are sensitive. Sometimes just getting home is all that matters, at all costs. Don't give up on Us and if your Lucky maybe you will get here also. Now before I start rambeling off about something non relevant I'll just stop. Old people just make me Laugh, that is if they are Older than me. Ya, Laughing is Good.
The Wizzard

 

That gave me a good laugh.

I agree, you did the right thing. I believe in the Karma payment plan, so it should pay off for you in the end. At least that's what I tell myself when I'm in similar situations.

When I'm home from school I work at a full service gas station. We definitely get our share of people just like that woman in at the shop, I always just try to grin and bear 'em and hope the next person will be pleasant and appreciate the work I try to do for them. I always try to do the most I can for everyone that comes in, because like someone else already said, if it was my mother or sister that came in with a problem, I sincerely hope whoever they deal with treats them as well as they deserve (and in the case of my mother or sister, they deserve pretty damn well).

 

This post has gotten the most comments about my sig than any other. The truth of that sig is this...When I was a kid my dad owned a full service gas station/garage for a while. I worked there after school and on weekends. There was a "lesbian conevention" that was held every summer on property that the group/club whatever owned outside of town. The women that would come into town were many and veried in looks and at***ude, but one thing I always noticed was almost every time one would stop into our station they always bought chocolate candy. Damn near everytime.

Well one night a couple of buddies and I decided it would be cool to sneek out to thier property and see if we could see anything....we were 15-16 years old at the time!!! Well, we got spotted and I tell you what those women chased our ***es damn near all the way back into town!!! We all thought for sure we was gonna get killed!!! So, being the ***** I am, I told those guys if we was to ever get into that lesbian camp they'd have to dip me in chocolate and throw me in there!!! I figured that they liked chocolate....so maybe it would work. So, that is the story behind my sig. One of those guy I snuck out there with is still a close friend, and he brings that up just about every time we get together!!!

Now, back on topic. I will still do my good samaritan thing..I can't help it. It does make me feel good knowing I actually can be a decent guy at times. I have a quick temper and at times not a very sociable guy, but I do have a little bit of a heart. It has been one of those days today, not quite sure why I posted this, but there are times when a guy has to vent a little...right? Thanks to all of you who thanked me for her and those who think I did the right thing.....I'm not sure if karma is working for me....and not sure if my good samaritan guestures will offset some of my other bad deeds, but I know it is nice to help others and I will continue to do so.

 

Funny thing, Mom never mentioned that I had a twin living in Covina...

 

Truth be told, I'd rather come into contact with people such as the old woman with the flat than nice and gracious people.
You can relax a little more around the old woman becuase you know she's being her true self. A wolf is easier to detect, understand, and avoid being bitten by than a wolf in sheep's clohthing.

If you can keep this mentality and not become the old woman with the flat, then you're golden. Just imagine how much it must **** to be one of these rude & unfortunate people.

 

Now that's quotable!

 

A$$holes come in all shapes and sizes. I once followed some POS Camry about 50 blocks, the thing had a flat rear tire, shredded, throwing hunks of tire and shooting sparks. Even in my 305hp Cadillac STS I had to WOT stab it a few times to keep up. It finally stops at a light, I get out and yell at the driver they have a flat tire, and this grandmotherly looking old bat behind the wheel lets loose with a torrent of swearing that shocked me. I advised her she was a cl*** act and to speed on cause hell aint even half full.

Some people.

 

are we related?

 

You did what you did because you were brought up right. We need more people in this world that are willing to do the right thing. Continue to do what is right, we all benefit from kindness.

 

I'll bet if you bought a purse from her she might have said thank you. Pat yourself on the back and say, job well done. I have to do it at work a couple times a day.

 

Find out where she lives ,and piss on her rose's................

 

My career has me dealing with people like this all day long. You did the right thing. Don't let it bother you, people like that **** and there are a bunch more out there like that. It has already been mentioned, what goes around comes around.

 

I figure if I do a couple of good deeds I can get away with a few bad ones.....

 

I'm a firm believer in what goes around, doesn't ever come around. Karma, luck, all ********. I believe in the unpredictable nature of the human animal. 9 outta 10 would probably just move on and leave the crabby old girl there. It's that 1 (you) that did the unpredictable. It's a lost mood or feeling to be kind anymore. Those who know me best would think I was full of ****, but I try to be generally courteous and polite. I was raised old school in regard to manners, respect elders, etc. It's seldom recognized and often treated as ********, more often mistaken for weakness. That's just about the time I turn 180deg and bring out the other side. I'd most likely have helped the ol gal and had fun fueling her anger and language. Misery loves company, right? If you are the good samaritan, that friendly sort that holds a door or says 'good morning' to total strangers once in a while, just keep it in your mind that there's no payoff. No 'comes around', no karma, no reward and often not even an effortless thank you as you pointed out in the story. What it does do for you is keep that ****in no good pissed off ***hole from showing up over the top of your bathroom sink in the morning. It's simply a free ticket to an inner peace that nobody else can see, that no measure of karma, prayer, or meditation can bring. It's the pure from of being one's self much like the main topic of this community. The rest is all ********.

 

Your Mom and Dad did good!-MIKE

 

All this talk about karma reminds me of the show Earl. You did the Earl thing, and you felt you did the right thing. Helped a friend out with a car he had that would'nt start. Told him to leave it alone and I'd get there the next day, well I get there and I ask him if he had been trying to start it, "nope" he said, but you could smell the gas. So I check everything out and it's the points, put new points in and set them and said fire it. BANG, blew the muffler apart, old crusty old man from next door came out yelling like a wet hornet. I could'nt hear him from my ears ringing, but I blasted him right back and he left instantly. Later I asked my friend if he had been trying to start that car and he addmitted to trying all mornning pumping the gas like crazy. Yea "karma"

 

Nice first post.

 

I see this everyday. If I go out of my way to do something for a customer here at the shop and not charge them they just get in shut the door and drive off. I don't need to be stroked for doing a good deed...but I thank you would be nice. Oh well I do it to make ME feel good....

Like lil'billy said maybe she's just OLD..we had a 82 year old woman p*** a School buss and kill a five year old girl last week. VERY SAD.

 

You earned good Karma points there.
You don't have to buy a tire tomorrow, and she does.

I found $2000 dollars under a Cadillac dash once, returned it to the old lady, never got a thanks or nothing. I'd do it again.

Found out later she had just bought the car used, didn't know about the money.

 

trunk full of purses? are sure it was not paris hilton bet she looks older in person..she was avoiding the paparrzzi

 

"God bless you!"

 

Having grown up in the South during a time when we were taught to respect our elders it is a part of who I am.

It appears that common courtesy and manners in today's society is pretty much a thing of the past,,your actions show how you were raised to treat your fellowman.

We can't control the actions of others but are solely responsible for our own,,you proved to yourself, and us you did the right thing. HRP

 

You're looking for the most expensive thing a person will never give you for free these days. A simple Thank You. Lost, gone to another generation and you can't get one today. Don't dwell on it as I used to be like you. No more and I feel better for it than beat myself up for helping thankless self-important ***wipes. I'll help family & friends but thats it. Karma? B.S., it doesn't come around nor does what goes around come back. Adults like saying **** like that to feel better and hide the real truth from kids.

 

with all this ****py snowy weather bad driving shows its head the other morning when the roads were very icy some jack*** p***es us on the shoulder of the freeway going twice as fast as the slower traffic .. sure enough i see him catch the edge of the road spinout almost catching the line of slower cars ends up down the bank backwards coverd with snow and gr***
i stop walk down to his buried car he puts down the window as he is calling out on his cell phone telling someone he will be late i asked"if he was ok?" he says " ya i guess" then i ask
"what was your rush " he says" he needed to get to work " he was a clothing store salesclerk"
i reached in turned off the car and then took his keys'and flipped em out in the snow bank a few feet over and went back to my car still waiting in traffic

i know it weren't nice but sheese

 

I don't know if i would have been surprised at her rudeness after I found out that she was selling counterfeit designer purses out of the back of her car!

 

Just breathe a sigh of relief that she doesn't live in your house.

 

333Half Evil,
Sonds like you're "100%All good?"
It's nice for us to know you're a good individual,even if the woman you ***isted didn't have the decency to thank you for saving her more grief?
Take solace in knowing that the key to life is SELF AWARENESS.She has little to none and will feel regret one day for her ignorance.
The world is better with people like you in it.

 

Last time I gave a sh*t, I got F*cked!