Good deeds that you have done..........with/without reward

[Dave7]

Reading the post by @ScotiaLass (re' her son) made me reflect on good deeds and 2 sprang to mind.
1) I Found a really tatty & cheap wallet (Man Utd emblem on it) with just £5.00 and a list of contacts in it. Phoned the 1st contact and it was "the mother" who said "its my 40 year old son's.....he has learning difficulties and is going crazy". I joked that "I'm an LFC supporter so he is lucky to get it back. Upshot is..........she has 2 private seats at Old Trafford and before the next Utd LFC match brought them round to me (in her Merc 350 convertible). When I asked "what will you do for the game" she told me "I will be sitting with the Busby family in their private box" .........turns out she was minted. Icing on the cake was that LFC beat them 1 nil with Murphy scoring

2) Stopped in a car park and I found a wallet.......stuffed with money.......several £1000's. Credit card had a name and I realised it matched a builders van. I waited until a guy went to the van and just asked "have you lost anything"? He immediately felt his pockets, went white and said "my wallet---its got all the lad's wages in it"............I asked for proof (just to be sure) and everything matched so I gave him the wallet. He just got in the van and drove off..........not one word of thanks-----which I put down to shock.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I try to live my life as kindly as possible and treat others as I would wish me and mine, to be treated.

In a charity shop recently I saw a mum and her young son. She hardly spoke English but smiled at me and said hello as we browsed side by side.
She was looking at a pushchair for her toddler - by my standards it wasn't expensive at £7.50. I could see she was deliberating on the cost.
She couldn't work the brakes so I showed her how they worked.
As I left the shop I passed her, still looking at it. I pressed a £5 note into her hand. She just looked incredulous as I smiled and walked away.
I watched her come out of the shop a few minutes later with her son in the pushchair. She saw me and rushed over and hugged me, the words she spoke were foreign, but the meaning was understood.
I don't like hugging strangers but I tell you what, that was the most heartfelt hug I've ever had!

I'm not well off by any means, but I know hardship when I see it.

 

[Drago]

Regular SAR callouts, inevitably in crap weather at 3am when I'm due in work at 7. I don't expect or ask for any reward, but do it because someone out there needs help and me and my homies are the only ones around that can do it.

 

[arch684]

A guy crashed his bike near my house wrecking his front wheel.I let him borrow a wheel to get him home,he promised to return it in a couple of days.That was the last time i saw him or my wheel

 

[postman]

This summer i was riding out of Otley.Saw a car stopped in the middle of the road.An old women inside,looking confused.Stopping i asked what was up.Flat battery she said,the car was only three days old.She still had the folder of paper work in the footwell.Did she have a mobile,yes but she had left it at home.So using mine,i contacted the showroom.They sent out a recovery van via a third party.I stayed with her for nearly hour and half.Using my phone to keep in contact with the recovery company.they soon found the problem,she had run out of petrol,this was after telling me she was fullup.So the guys took over saying it would cost her a few bob,seeing as it was not a mechanical fault,but hers.Thanking me they took over.Later that month my mobile phone bill came.I was in excess of £12.

 

[screenman]

Any good deed I have ever done has been rewarded by my own feel good factor. Sometime people do not know how to say thankyou, maybe it is not built into their genes, maybe they were not taught it.

 

[Dave7]

Another one springs to mind (funny in some ways).
Driving along I saw an elderly lady walking the same direction as me but on the far side..............them hem of her dress was 'stuck' in the top of her knickers! She had obviously gone to the loo and got it caught up.
So I made a quick decision and stopped the car to tell her thinking her embarrassment was obvious but (to my mine) better than the alternative.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

A guy crashed his bike near my house wrecking his front wheel.I let him borrow a wheel to get him home,he promised to return it in a couple of days.That was the last time i saw him or my wheel

That stinks. I don't know how anyone could live with themselves after doing that.

 

[screenman]

One time I was rewarded was by one of the villagers whose windscreen I repaired, he said that as he was a local he knew I would be embarrased to take money, so 3 turnips were given instead.

That is a true story, both my wife and I have stopped frequenting the local pub, as I will be dragged outside to see dents and damaged screens that people want repaired and certainly do not want to pay me for, the wife will havepeople take their shoes and socks off to get her opinion on their feet.

Lincolnshire where tightness is taken to a higher level then known any where else.

 

[screenman]

I once bought @vernon a drink.

We are after true stories, not made up one's

 

[vernon]

We are after true stories, not made up one's

He was being modest. He bought me three drinks.

 

[Levo-Lon]

its so easy to help...i never understand why people seek praise for being human..
if someone needs help, help them..

 

[numbnuts]

I've helps loads of people in my life, but when I needed "real help" there was no one there for me.

 

[Tin Pot]

Advertising your charitable works is bad for the soul.

 

[Tin Pot]

That stinks. I don't know how anyone could live with themselves after doing that.

Perhaps he died later from his injuries? We can but hope