The Last Good Deed You Did...
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I won some money betting on cheltenham once, purely down to tips from a construction manager of mine, and some good fortune. Staked about 50 quid and got about 400 back. Later that night I was on the sofa and a charity TV programme was on, cant even remember which charity - perhaps comic relif. Was watching the heart wrenching stories and handed over the winnings.
better off goign to a good cause than being p****d up the wall by me!!!!
not really a charitable thing but a guilt trip!
I do take my hat off to those who stop and help people in a car - Im almost certain I would do this, purely as someone put eaerlier, you would like to think that if your old dear was stranded, that a genuinely decent person would offer assistance where possible!!
Matt
better off goign to a good cause than being p****d up the wall by me!!!!
not really a charitable thing but a guilt trip!
I do take my hat off to those who stop and help people in a car - Im almost certain I would do this, purely as someone put eaerlier, you would like to think that if your old dear was stranded, that a genuinely decent person would offer assistance where possible!!
Matt
saw a old man with his wife pushing the car around a car park trying to bump start a vectra , so i run over and help push with all my might and we get him rolling around the car park at a good rate
after several tries to bump it we give up...the **** then sits there and cranks it over , didnt need pushing at all ***** heap
after several tries to bump it we give up...the **** then sits there and cranks it over , didnt need pushing at all ***** heap
Council Baby said:
I bought the old man in front of me his groceries yesterday, he was counting change and didn't have enough for everything he had. He was a bit bemused but very grateful, it was only £9 and, truth be told, I was in a hurry so it was quicker just to say 'I'll get that for you mate' than stand around waiting.
I guess it counts though.
The checkout girl was fit wasn't she? Admit it.I guess it counts though.
I was just about to fill my car with petrol when an old lady popped her head around the pump and asked me if I could help open her filler flap as it seemed to be stuck. She stopped by a Ford Focus so I pulled on her filler flap harder and harder until it broke off in my hand. Ooops. She then asked me what I was doing, as that wasn't her car and there was a guy walking towards me having just come out of the kiosk with a "WTF?" expression on his face while I was stood there holding what was left of his filler flap. It took a bit of explaining.
My advice - never do a good deed - ever.
My advice - never do a good deed - ever.
2 winters ago, following a woman driving some small car or other. Driving at a nice slow speed, on a country lane, woman just gets one front wheel onto the drift at the side of the road, and then she is stuck, wheels spinning. I stop my pickup, hazards on and proceed to push said small car back onto the road, took a couple of mins of effort. She thanked me, and carried on. Walking back to my car, there must have been at least three other cars parked behind me, all with drivers looking toasty and warm, and thinking that I must be some sort of freak. People 'eh
garycat said:
I was just about to fill my car with petrol when an old lady popped her head around the pump and asked me if I could help open her filler flap as it seemed to be stuck. She stopped by a Ford Focus so I pulled on her filler flap harder and harder until it broke off in my hand. Ooops. She then asked me what I was doing, as that wasn't her car and there was a guy walking towards me having just come out of the kiosk with a "WTF?" expression on his face while I was stood there holding what was left of his filler flap. It took a bit of explaining.
My advice - never do a good deed - ever.
This one reminds me of another. I'd stopped at the services for Petrol and had held back while I finished a phone call. While doing that I'd noticed a woman struggling with the petrol flap on a 3 series. She'd been in and got water (it was a very cold winter 3 years ago), and was now on the phone to her husband. I diagnosed that the lock had frozen, and while she'd chucked hot water, pushed and pulled, what she had not done was cycle the locks. I was correct. She said ta. job done.My advice - never do a good deed - ever.
Council Baby said:
I bought the old man in front of me his groceries yesterday, he was counting change and didn't have enough for everything he had. He was a bit bemused but very grateful, it was only £9 and, truth be told, I was in a hurry so it was quicker just to say 'I'll get that for you mate' than stand around waiting.
I guess it counts though.
Here's a thing.I guess it counts though.
I was going to post a picture of a discarded 'old man mask' insinuating that I'd conned you out of £9 and you'd fallen for my clever ruse.
But bizarrely, every old man mask pic I can find looks like you.
I came on the scene of a crash a couple of years ago where a car had run into the back of another car occupied by an elderly couple. They were very shaken and I stopped my car so that they could sit in the warmth as it was snowing outside. I offered them coffee from my flask but they declined.
I thought that was a nice thing to do
I thought that was a nice thing to do
Council Baby said:
I bought the old man in front of me his groceries yesterday, he was counting change and didn't have enough for everything he had. He was a bit bemused but very grateful, it was only £9 and, truth be told, I was in a hurry so it was quicker just to say 'I'll get that for you mate' than stand around waiting.
I guess it counts though.
I did that the other day. I'd just nipped in to a shop to buy a newspaper. There was a little old lady struggling to find the money in her purse to cover her food shopping. I guessed she didn't actually have the money to pay so I just gave the cashier a fiver to top off the amount she'd found (and made sure the cashier gave the little old lady the change).I guess it counts though.
She gave me a nice smile which was all I wanted (well, that and her to get the f
k out of my way so I could buy my paper and go home).BHC said:
I came on the scene of a crash a couple of years ago where a car had run into the back of another car occupied by an elderly couple. They were very shaken and I stopped my car so that they could sit in the warmth as it was snowing outside. I offered them coffee from my flask but they declined.
I thought that was a nice thing to do
...until they decided to inform you that their necks had begun to feel a bit stiff and the fire brigade would need to come and slice the roof off your PandJ lest they suffer irreparable spinal damage? I thought that was a nice thing to do
A neighbour had a mild stroke a few weeks ago. My wife went round to help (she's a doctor).
The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
mcgandalf said:
BHC said:
I came on the scene of a crash a couple of years ago where a car had run into the back of another car occupied by an elderly couple. They were very shaken and I stopped my car so that they could sit in the warmth as it was snowing outside. I offered them coffee from my flask but they declined.
I thought that was a nice thing to do
...until they decided to inform you that their necks had begun to feel a bit stiff and the fire brigade would need to come and slice the roof off your PandJ lest they suffer irreparable spinal damage? I thought that was a nice thing to do
I spotted a bloke in a small car broken down at traffic lights so I pulled over and offered to push his car about 200 metres up the road to a lay by to clear the main road for everyone else. As I wash pushing on my own I thought the car felt heavier than it should have been given leg day is my favourite in the gym. It was then I discovered an extra 3 fully grown adults sitting in the car looking at me. We got the car to the lay by and I asked him if he wanted me to take a look and see if I could sort it for him. His reply was its ok, I've only run out of fuel. There was a petrol station 200 metres further up the road.
AstonZagato said:
A neighbour had a mild stroke a few weeks ago. My wife went round to help (she's a doctor).
The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
That's rubbish. My Discovery pulled out a whole milk van from a field nearby. The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
BHC said:
AstonZagato said:
A neighbour had a mild stroke a few weeks ago. My wife went round to help (she's a doctor).
The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
That's rubbish. My Discovery pulled out a whole milk van from a field nearby. The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
The ambulance was stuck up to its axles and there was no-one in it driving it to assist it out - they were inside trying to help the patient. To get it out it needed to get immediately over the concrete kerb that edged the lawn, so couldn't gradually ease out of the mud). There was no proper towing point on the ambulance (I attached to the hydraulic lift at the back) so I didn't want to really give it "the beans" - damaging the ambulance would have been expensive. Also, I was on gravel rather than tarmac, so traction was limited. I didn't really want the tow rope to break and injure those who were standing around gawping (rather than doing something useful).
And finally, I didn't have the first clue as to what I was doing.
AstonZagato said:
BHC said:
AstonZagato said:
A neighbour had a mild stroke a few weeks ago. My wife went round to help (she's a doctor).
The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
That's rubbish. My Discovery pulled out a whole milk van from a field nearby. The ambulance then managed to get stuck on their lawn. I went round with a tow rope, the Rangie and a "can do" attitude. It turned out I "can't do" (ambulances are fecking heavy) but it's the thought that counts.
The ambulance was stuck up to its axles and there was no-one in it driving it to assist it out - they were inside trying to help the patient. To get it out it needed to get immediately over the concrete kerb that edged the lawn, so couldn't gradually ease out of the mud). There was no proper towing point on the ambulance (I attached to the hydraulic lift at the back) so I didn't want to really give it "the beans" - damaging the ambulance would have been expensive. Also, I was on gravel rather than tarmac, so traction was limited. I didn't really want the tow rope to break and injure those who were standing around gawping (rather than doing something useful).
And finally, I didn't have the first clue as to what I was doing.
I could smell the clutch afterwards. And not long after that it started burning oil like petrol. I doubt it's linked though - that thing exhibited a lot of dodgy behaviour.
How did they get it out eventually?
I suspect that the no driver part is a big reason, and also you wouldn't exactly want to pull the lift off.
james_tigerwoods said:
On the other hand, I witnessed a girl spin off in to a verge on the A1 at Elkesley (sp) - I stopped to check on her (she was ok) and got told to ps off as she was going to call the AA -
That reminded me. I always have a tow-rope in my car, and I happened upon a young couple who had broken down on a blind bend on a fast (60mph) single carriageway road. So I pulled in just in front of them and offered to tow them to a safe lay-by about half a mile further up the road. They were extremely grateful, as recovery firms will usually take at least an hour to arrive in this part of the world.s off as she was going to call the AA - Similar story about a year later, I passed two middle-aged ladies in a car broken down on a dodgy bit of road, so turned around and went back and asked if they wanted towed somewhere safer, and got a very rude refusal as if I'd just offered to kill their cat.
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