Today my husband stopped to help someone with a flat tyre on a council estate in Nottingham where we used to live. While he was doing that someone walked past and keyed his car ( a calibra 4×4 turbo I bought for him as a gift for the 21st anniversary of our first date, it was his dream car when we got together). He didn’t notice it at the time but the woman he was helping said she saw the man do it but didn’t say anything because she didn’t want him to stop putting her spare wheel on. 🙄
Really annoys me you’re born and raised on an estate you do well for yourself and jealous people act like idiots.
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Some people might not see this as a good deed, but I wrote my ex’s job application after he’d been ‘trying’ to get a job for 18 months, got him the job, and then he cheated with an 18 year old colleague (he was 27 eek)
Found a cat collar, saw an address on it, returned the collar to the house. Spent the afternoon like a wheezing bug-eyed zombie after a huge allergic reaction. That’ll learn me to be helpful.
If it’s any comfort, any half-decent bodyshop can deal with that sort of thing surprisingly cheaply.
I helped some birds out of an abusive situation (they were starving) and arranged to take them to an animal shelter where family of a friend worked. It was difficult to find one that would take birds. When I get there, the family of the friend is there, but decides she doesn’t believe me that I’m rescuing the birds as apparently it’s common for abusive owners who are done with the animals to just dump them and claim they found them. I literally could explain and give her the name of the owner, and the fact that I’d already talked to her brother, but she wasn’t having it and threatened to call the police so I had to donate £100 to get her not to do that. Afterwards her brother apologised and said they didn’t have a close relationship as she’s always had mental health issues.
Sorry to any future animals but I’m not rescuing another one after that experience. I can’t afford to randomly be out a hundred quid.
Oh, jesus, what a nightmare. The keyer, and the good samaritanee (?) both f’d over your husband.
I am sorry. He is now absolved from ever helping anyone again, outside family and friends.
Mine is so much less. I was on a London tube, and a guy got on with a cane. Everyone who had a seat was suddenly transfixed by their phones, so I moved off my lean-against cushion, and offered it to him, because it was better than fully standing. He accepted, and decided to thank me – I was less than a foot from him – by introducing him to his lord and saviour.
I didn’t want to be an arse as I think he genuinely wanted to save me, so just pretended to listen. But we close, so I heard a lot.
Now I never give my seat to someone unless I can walk a couple of metres away.
Many years ago, I was walking home from work (im foreigner, so its kind of relevant to story) and saw guy in a wheelchair in front of me. He tipped over backwards and fell backwards. I was quickly approaching him and also another young arab guy also came from side to help him. Both of us tried to lift him up back to normal, but guy in wheelchair started calling us slurs ,something about immigrants and stuff and started hitting us because we touched him. Still have no idea what was his problem. 2 strangers were trying to help you. After few seconds of that, both of us said “F that and left him as is”. I had a bruise on my arm after that.
I stopped to help a biker that needed a toolkit to fix something for his onward journey (I had one).
When I got home I realised I’d dropped a fiver getting out and into the car.
I burnt my hand stopping a woman taking her radiator cap off after her car had overheated. She pulled into the car park next to me, opened the bonnet and I could hear it boiling. She went to take the cap off and I basically slapped her hand away as an instant reflex but managed to burn my knuckles in the exhaust manifold in the process.
The I had to sit with her until it cooled down and too it up so she could go home.
I was talking a girl down from a really bad acid trip outside of a nightclub. Her “boyfriend” came out (after about an hour and a half) and kicked the living shit out of me.
Now everyone can just fuck off.
Where I used to work, a client came in close to closing time without an appointment (we ran on an appointment system). It was a quick enough thing, so I asked her to wait a few minutes and I’d fit her in before we closed. Quickly booked her appointment and booked her in and fixed her issue. In all, she was there maybe 15-20 minutes- she left as we closed.
The client put in a review that said she’d had to wait too long for service and wasn’t happy.
I am a technical delivery driver, i was swapping a broken corporate laptop with a new one, i had parked in a loading bay as a job like this should take maximum 5 minutes.
The policy is that if I have an order to swap a device I must return with one device, I cannot just leave both devices onsite with the user.
The user asked me if I could wait for them to set up the new laptop to make sure it worked. I explained that I didn’t have time as the process can take up to 1 hour. As I was feeling nice I said I’d be willing to wait 5 minutes for him to check the condition of the laptop and make sure it powers on so I handed over the new laptop.
After 6 minutes I went to the receptionist and asked if she could check on the user as I was mindful I was in a loading bay and I had other jobs to get to, she came back explaining the user would be done in 2 minutes.
Of course after 3 minutes still heard nothing so I went back to the receptionist, after 10 minutes they returned, the user basically refused to hand me any laptop as they were setting the new one up despite me saying I didn’t have time for it. In the end I was onsite for 40 minutes for what should have been a 5 minute job.
I returned to my car and of course had a ticket, luckily I was able to dispute this on a technicality but god that made me angry.
I will always try to bend rules or go out of my way to give good customer service but this person took massive advantage of my kindness and despite explaining that I was at risk of getting a ticket and had other jobs to go to he still took the piss, I still get angry thinking about it.
Yesterday I went to rescue a worm from the path outside my office and put it in a quiet corner out of the sunshine .
Of course I slipped in the muck, messed up my good coat and dress that I’ve only worn twice, and have further buggered the arm that I’m currently having physio on (after another dumb move by me at Christmas).
Edit; I had to take a pic to share with my boss and OH, because I do seem to fall over or damage myself in random ways.
Helped a blind man get on the right bus in the pouring rain and promptly stepped in a puddle that overflowed and filled my shoes.
Then had a two-hour squelchy journey home and promptly caught a cold.
There was a homeless man outside of Tesco once. I didn’t have any change, but offered to buy him some lunch. I said he could choose what he wanted. He took a basket and proceeded to do a full food shop… Including pork chops and an entire trifle… I drew the line when he went to get cigarettes
Taking time from my work several times a day to help the new guy next to me even though it eats into my efficiency so I don’t make bonus.
Had some M&S vouchers for free drinks, always like to share the joy. The woman in front ordered a few so I gave the vouchers to her and said you’re more than welcome to use these if you like. She said she doesn’t need them but she’ll use them anyway 🙈 didn’t say thank you and when we were leaving the car park she cut me up and blocked my exit at the same time. I mean, what a total cow 😂
Let a longtime friend move in with me after they moved abroad for a job that turned out to be a scam, they’d lost their job, savings, housing, everything.
Maybe 2 months later, after I helped get them a new job, better paid than even the scam job, they moved out whilst I was at work and stole all the furniture from my spare bedroom.
They also tried to go around all our friendship groups saying that I was insane and they moved out because I was controlling/abusive. Thankfully no-one believed them because I’m notoriously easygoing.
I invited a friend to stay with me when he split up with his boyfriend and didn’t have a job. I had two jobs to survive and was paying for his food, I’d pay for his drinks if we went out etc… I went to visit family for a week, got home and he’d skipped town with half of my stuff from a bed, down to kitchen bits and lots in between! All because I tried to do a good dead and help him out
I learnt a long time ago the phrase “not my circus, not my monkeys”.
I look after my family and my friends.
I had a cart in the supermarket and the guy behind me only had a few things in a basket. I offered to let him go in front of me and he did so, then turned and called for his wife to come along with her massive trolley.
This thread only reinforces my belief that it’s better to not get involved in things that don’t concern us
Could bore you senseless with the amount of stories I could tell you.
However here’s a fairly light hearted one.
Went into M&S for a pastry, noticed the staff struggling with a guy. So went hands on, identified myself as a cop, kept him there until uniform showed up.
Two days later, M&S manager put in a complaint about me because I’d said a wee swear word during the fight.
I left a nightclub and made my way across the road to the nearest kebabery. An arsehole, drunker than me, had decided to take umbrage with the proprietors, and was swinging a stool around his head, then stole it and left the shop, still swinging it in the street near to the heads of a lot of drunken club-leavers. I grabbed it from him and handed it back to the staff in the shop, as the thief/stool-wielder started swinging punches at me.
I defended myself sufficiently, with absolutely fuck-all assistance from any of the people who I stopped from getting robbed and/or smacked in the noggin with the stool and…
The police walked round the corner to see me with the prick in a headlock.
He does a runner, one cop tells me to stay where I am, so I did. They come back shortly thereafter, arrest me, issue me with a fixed penalty notice, put me in the cells overnight, and cause me a disciplinary hearing at my work.
Son in laws car broke down at the side of a busy A road. Went to go offer assistance and ended up getting stuck in the mud at the side of the road. Had to get towed out myself
A few years ago, I was at a crossroads and when the lights changed, went green, this slow driver set off in front and immediately a car from the right, not stopped for their lights on red, came at speed (never slowed down) and piled into the car in front of me.
Both drivers had minor injuries and went to A&E. I gave my statement to the police and drove home, thankful the driver ahead was slow and it was not me that had been hit.
It went to court to prosecute the driver who went through the lights and hit the car in front me, with me as the only witness. Their defense kept getting it postponed, on the day we were there, which went on for 6+ months, trying to get me to give up; I even lost a holiday because of it. Finally, in the end it went to court, I turned up and seeing me yet again the guilty driver changed their plea to guilty. I felt vindicated for not giving up. Justice served.
As we were finally allowed to talk, the driver in front of me, who had been hit, came over and thanked me for persevering. He offered me a lift from the court, which I accepted.
We chatted more in the car, where he turned out to be the most awful vile racist, a real horrible ignorant person. I asked to be quickly dropped off, got out of the car and walked away frustrated at life.
When you stick your neck out to get someone a job and they do something that gets them fired on the spot (stealing from the till) on their 4th week.
I helped someone in work…they then tired to do the same with someone else and got it wrong…it ended up as a security incident which caused at least two investigations across three continents.
I stepped in between a boyfriend punching his girlfriend, they then both turned on me and punched the fuck out of me. Very wary of intervening in domestics now.
I let a guy I met live with me for a couple of months. Helped him get back on his feet and get a council place. Bare in mind I was still in 6 form and earned around £50 a week, I’d be spending over half on him for months.
A year later, my girlfriend wanted a night out, and a few of my friends had offered to take her on a night out. She had never drank properly before and drank too much. She ended up making out with that same friend who knew i was dating her.
I broke down the door to help my neighbour who had fallen and couldn’t get up. After the paramedics took him away the police officer called in a background check on me in full earshot before handing me his keys to look after his place while he was in hospital. He ended up dying a few days later and I had to help sort out his things. I’ll never forget the look of suspicion that cop gave me.
Partner on his way to work saw a man on a mobility scooter stuck in some mud. Went and gave him a push, got the thing moving and as it moved, he slipped forward and went face down in the mud. The guy on the scooter gave a cheery wave and went on his way not looking back to see him sprawled face down on the floor. Partner had to pick himself up and carry on his way to work 🤣
Tried to help a dog that had escaped from its house back in by ringing the owner’s ring doorbell. Their dog attacked my dog and I was left with a £300 vet bill. First and last time I’ll ever try to help.
I babysat a foster kid so his foster parents could go see the grandma in hospital.
I caught the norovirus that put her in hospital
Twice I have stopped a small child from running into a busy road. Twice I have been yelled at by the mother who hadn’t noticed that their child was about to get killed until I intervened. I would like to say that the next time a child is about to run into traffic I would just let them, but unfortunately I am cursed with a conscious.
I was going up the escalator in a large department store when the hand rail stopped moving. I realised quickly what had happened and took my hand off it. The old lady in front of me kept holding on so her feet were going up while her upper body remained still on the unmoving rail. Seeing she was going to fall back on to the moving steel stairs, I went in behind her to stop her falling back.
While doing this heroic deed my flip flop got mangled in the gap between the moving stairs and I lost chunks of skin of my toes. I managed to get someone to press the emergency stop button and, with help, got the lady upright and up to the top of the escalator. She was unscathed – job well done!
While I was mopping my bloody feet with a napkin, security approached me and said the old lady had accused me of trying to steal her hand bag. No good deed 🤷🏻♀️
I let a lady go ahead of me at the checkout because she had a kid with her and he was crying.
I got to the carpark just in time to see her reverse out of the space next to me, scrape all down the side of my car (hard enough to dislodge a bit of panel) and then drive off without stopping.
During a night out (a weekend away) we came out of a club and found a girl sitting crying a shop doorway making no sense) our plan was to head back to the hotel for a couple of nightcaps and then off to bed. It’s not far so we take her with us where we can get her out of the elements and a taxi can be called when she can tell someone where she lives.
We get back to hotel and she is sitting the bar beside us, and seems to be doing fine until she stands up and announces that one of us had committed an unimaginable SA on her in the ladies of the hotel. The thing is, she never left the bar at all from the moment we all got there. We were on the last night of a three night getaway and had followed the same routine, the woman behind the bar was the one to point out to her and everyone in there that she walked in with us and sat down at that table. She was a calm head and tf she was because we were all stunned at the claim and just kinda stared at her wondering what was going on. She was escorted from the premises and told if they heard a peep out her they were phone the police on her.
Was giving man cpr in Shoreditch. A big fight was going on next to us. A load of police turned up and smacked me on the back of the head.
When I worked in Retail and managed a small section of the store. I had access to the sales plans and could view upcoming discounts. I wasn’t supposed to share the information with customers, but always felt bad if someone was looking to buy something I knew full well was going 50% off in the next few days, so usually let them know on the down low. One time I did this, the woman demanded I give them the sale price there and then, when I said I couldn’t (heavy discounts get flagged to the security dept) she kicked off so badly, other managers had to get involved and I got found out. I wasn’t in any real trouble but that’s the last time I gave anyone the heads up.
My cousin let her best friend stay with her after she split up with her husband. The friend started an affair with my cousins husband.
I was in the Co-op just getting a food for breakfast and some baghead robbed a basket full of stuff. I would have ignored it, but the young girl tried getting the basket off him, I only intervened to stop her getting abused.
Finished the shopping and walked out bags in hand for the guy to then attack me with his mate and try to drag me into traffic.
Police did nothing, and I couldn’t talk properly for weeks after getting a few smacks in the jaw. Didn’t fight back, as I didn’t fancy my chances against 2, and didn’t know if they were carrying anything, would rather take a few punches and go.
A (very much now former) friend of mine and her girlfriend at the time were made homeless – So I put them up for a few weeks when suddenly my lads 3DS and pokemon X game went missing, very quickly worked out they had stolen them and a bunch of other stuff, and sold them to pay for a night out getting wasted and high
Got all the evidence, camera footage from the pawn shop that they’d sold the 3DS to, even witness statement of a mutual friend they’d admitted to. CPS refused to press charges based on lack of evidence…
Pawn shop owner was brilliant though, he gave back the 3DS, but the pokemon game had already been sold so he gave my lad another copy. However, my son (5 at the time this happened) is autistic, and was extremely attached to the pokemon on his save, he was devastated. For years after, anytime something was misplaced he’d state someone must have broken in and took it and get all worried
Been over 11 years since it happened, I’m still extremely cautious of helping others to big extent
I was trying to help this drunk woman find a taxi home and she was just talking absolute **filth** to me (I am basically almost too gay to function). She fell over and I was helping her up when these students acted like I was going to date rape her. I was like “fine, she’s your problem then”.
a teenage girl begged my husband to help her re- catch her dog in the park , he caught hold of the dog and it promptly attacked him , he got bit on the face and arm , he was covered in blood and his new leather jacket was ripped to shreds
despite knowing us the family never thanked us , came to see him or offered to pay for the jacket