Who want's to be a Superhero "Unmehficial" Contest!

p.s. meh staffers are invited to take part.

damn. no topic bubble again. @mehcus, can you help? Thanks.

Weird, my wife and I actually did something very similar today. We were at Sams Club getting ready for a celebration/party for our 10 month old daughter, standing in line to checkout.

An elderly man came up in the line behind us, and was kind of smiling at our daughter. He started making faces and stuff and her, and she was giggling and such. We noticed that all he was purchasing was bananas.

He continued making small talk while in the line, and our daughter continued staring at him and laughing. When our stuff is done ringing up, we also told them to ring his up too. He said it was okay, but we again, said “no, that’s ok, we got it”. He obliged, thanked us, and seemed pretty happy. Although he did try to hand us the wad of ones he had in his hand.

(Side note, if you do this at Sams, apparently you have to get somebody to print an item receipt to show the item checker at the door, oops).

I am not playing for prize, just thought it was interesting that you posted something very similar when this just happened to us as well.

Another side note: We recently moved into a new development. A bunch of people finally moved in around us, and we invited all of them to join the party (after the formal celebration) as well! Beer and food for all.

I held the door for someone . . .

Maybe about 40 years ago, a cashier gave me too much change. After wondering about what to do about it for a while, I decided to keep it. Then, I wondered if I’d burn in Hell for eternity for keeping this extra money. I weighed the options here, as I had the extra money right there in my hand but was it worth the chance of eternally burning.
Hmmmm…
Anyway, I went back and told that cashier that he had given me too much change. Of course I kept a portion for my trouble, but returned a lot of it.

New rule: the act of kindness must have happened within the last month to be eligible - so say we all.

Hmm timely. So I am (finally) living in HUD housing rather than basements and sheds. There is an older woman who has early Alzheimer’s and her son gets her groceries. Today when I was at the crappy fake food lunch they serve here (think $1 for middle school low grade cafeteria food more or less) someone begged the cafeteria lady for cartons of leftover milk to take upstairs (turns out same floor as I am on). She told me about this woman I have not met yet and how she had all her bottom teeth pulled out the other day and was struggling to eat, son wasn’t buying her soft food until the weekend, she doesn’t cook…

So we were talking at that lady’s door and she said she was eating soggy cereal mostly right now (by choice). I get a food box every month due to some poverty program this place has due to also having food stamps. So I scavenged through that box for cereal, canned apple sauce, grape juice, and several boxes of shelf stable milk from that. Then took the container of blueberries on sale I had bought myself along with some bread and peanut butter, jelly and canned peaches and my lovely ice cream I had also bought as a treat and took that stuff down the hall to her. She was thrilled. Sad all it took was this pitiful bit of food to make her day. At least now she can eat until her stupid son gets his sorry butt in gear to buy his mom some food this weekend.

I allowed someone to merge into my lane after they signaled.

Good deed in story format:
Last Tuesday I was on my way to my community garden plot and found an abandoned pocketbook at the side of the road. Debated on getting out of car for about 2 seconds. Was it garbage that fell out of the garbage truck? Did someone put it on their roof, forget and drive off? Stolen and dumped the evidence?

I put the old Jeep into park, hopped out, grabbed the coral London Fog bag and went on my way. At the garden parking lot, I opened it and found used kinda stinky fast food bags and an empty wallet - I found a stolen purse! Digged around some more and found an employee badge/key card with a list of names and telephone numbers stuck in the back. I called the woman’s number and she came and picked it up. It was indeed stolen from her car while she was at the dog park.

We talked for a bit. I went to get my tomatoes and karma points and she went home.

Fin.
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Remember, no good deed goes unpunished. Nevertheless, I can’t stop.

Just yesterday a professor from Cooper Union wanted to buy some of my colorful sound-responsive gadgets for a project and could only afford two or three of them, and she asked for the educational discount. Now I actively support education and she asked quite nicely; so I sent a whole box of them, one dozen, free. I hope the students will enjoy working with my gadgets, learn something, and are inspired to create their own even better projects.

Now by doing this deed I reduce the perceived value of my products by giving them away, earn a reputation as the guy that gives away free stuff, and of course don’t make any money. Punishment accepted, still worth it.

Haha, @mfladd, you are such a marshmallow!

I often do kind things for people, I love it. For instance, in stores, I often ask for a comment card to report good service, or simply tell the manager if one is available. It doesn’t just make them feel better, but offers the possibility of more far reaching outcomes, and it’s so easy to do.
I would never want a prize for these acts, they are their own reward.
Also, I held the door for someone.

I held open the door for THREE people!

Does firing someone, and losing days of sleep over the guilt count? I still feel incredibly guilty about it, five days later. I know it was the right thing to do, but have a hard time thinking that person is struggling because of me.

my real life saving opportunity, wasted :

but at a very late breakfast today, I partially redeemed my feng shui, as follows:

a young couple, college aged, at the next table over at the diner my husband and i dropped into, ordered french toast to share.

i just kinda half heard this and assumed they were ordering a spartan breakfast due to low cash supplies.

so i said to my wife, “how about if we pick up their check?” she agreed, and of course the plan was to do it anonimously…

the check came, and the young couple had actually ordered 2 full breakfasts, plus french toast to share

we gladly paid the bill and left. we did not get to see their expression to know if they appreciated it, but hopefully it at least made them smile…

not really my good deed…at a Post Office (a tiny one with 2 employees in the hospital currently) in a long line…a guy came in, obviously unwell, to pick up his mail. he was very short, under 5 feet tall I think, he had a box at that PO and the computer had, years ago, auto-assigned him a box at the top that he could not reach. so he had to come to the counter to get his mail.

we didn’t know why he was there, just could tell by looking that he wasn’t feeling well. the person in front of him in the line said to him, “go in front of me”, and the guy who was ill actually tried to act like nothing was wrong and refuse the gesture! we all turned around and looked, and we all wound up insisting that he go to the front of a line of 15 people. again, he tried to refuse, but we insisted…he finally agreed, and finally told us he’s just gotten out of the hospital himself, which was why he looked so exhausted, and how he had to pickup his mail at the counter, being unable to reach his box.

the PO manager (a new one) was in earshot, and heard his story. she asked if he wanted to change boxes to a lower one. he thought about that and accepted, and she opened a new computer station to do that for him without slowing down the line, and helped him with the paperwork and forwarding, and warned him how long it would take to get some companies and magazines to update everything. when it came time to pay for the box, the first guy still waiting in line insisted on paying for the box, and paid for several years I think.

the guy who now had a new much lower box was so moved he could barely speak, as were many of us.

I was involved in a run this weekend and we had dozens of leftover bagels and bananas. I took all the leftovers and went to where i know the big homeless area is and handed out all the extra food

@mfladd - I did not kill my daughter today. It would have been justifiable homicide. Does that count? LOL

On June 21 I flew from Alabama to Cali, using my own savings as her funds are always short, to help my sister while she recovers from double knee replacement.
Her daughter is 46 and lives at home. She has severe cerebral palsy and won’t let anyone else in the family care for her but my sister and myself. We are also the only two people who can medically care for her as we are the only ones on her conservatorship.
I love my sister. She’s the only one I have and the only family I have left. Our parents are passed and we have no other siblings. I love being able to step away from my world and help keep hers together until she is back on her feet.
Except for her youngest son and husband. Both are perfect. Perfect jerks. The son is a meth head and stoner, so you never know if he’s been sleeping or on a week long run. Plus he’ll steal anything that isn’t locked down so I have to keep my suitcase locked at all times and whatever I need daily always within sight. The husband is a lifelong alcoholic that flips from semi tolerable to a$$hole in 2.1 beers with no warning.
So far my niece has been a joy and I am loving spending time with her while caring for her. There are four years between us, I’m older, so she was my first life size Barbie many years ago.
The son has accused me of trying to take over his mothers life, even though I have an app on my phone counting down the days until I can go back to my quiet life. He hates that 1.) I’m not scared of him or his threats because I will lock him up the first time he puts a hand on me and 2.) When my sister asks me to do something she needs done (banking, bill paying, other random appointments, etc) I do them to HER standards and not his and refuse to be bullied… And her husband hates me because when she decided she was done with his bull 10 years ago, I was the one who downloaded and filed her divorce at her request and she has already threatened to have me do it again. This was supposed to be a simple trip to help my sister for a few weeks until she is back on her feet. It has turned into 10 weeks minimum (thank you to my son who is keeping my house and my cats happy and together) and more tears than I should have had to shed. I don’t regret helping sis. I never have. But the males in her house are convinced the only way to exist is to make everyone else’s life complete hell.
Now, due to slow healing and her having a few problems with balance and physical therapy, this trip may end up extending into September. I promised her that I will stay until she is able to completely care for her daughter again and can take care of herself. Staying for less time is just self-defeating in my opinion.
For me it’s a simple case of “she needs me so I’m here”. I just wish it had run according to our preplan and stayed calm and peaceful.

I’ve recommended counseling for all. To no avail. Sis comes home this Friday. Everybody will get their attitude adjusted. Just needed to vent a bit. I love meh

My wife came home the other day boasting how she was a better person than me. Story goes she was in line at the grocery store and the lady in front of her was paying for food staples with an EBT card and she was like $3 short of the total. The lady pulls a quarter out of her purse, but can’t find anything else. My wife then hands her the cash to cover it. The lady was very grateful as was the cashier because an awkward situation was averted. The lady offered to give my wife the quarter, but she told her to keep it. Upon hearing the story, I patted my wife on her head and said, “Good job, babe.”

Probably doesn’t count as it was a month or two back, but… We were in a store parking lot and I saw a lady take a tumble while walking up to the store. Rather than laugh or grimace to myself at how silly it looked when she fell, I immediately jogged over and offered her my hand and pulled her up. I asked if she was alright and then made some small talk and she was able to laugh it off. Lots of people saw and I know how embarrassing that can be. I just hope I was able to make it less so for her.

Hey @mfladd … does this count?? On our way to the drive-in the other night, our friend met us in a parking lot. When we arrived, she asked me to check out a car that was parked a few rows away. She thought there might be a dead lady in it. (No joke!)
So, considering the hubs knows cpr and all that, I drove over to the blue car, where there was indeed a woman whose chin was all the way to her chest. I looked at the hubby, he shrugged and said, she probably had passed away. Being the ever optimist, I belted out " Helllllooo" and OMG, her head shot up like someone had used a cattle prod on her! She replied, " I am just reading!"

Scared the crap outa me, but I was glad she was ok – I really didn’t want to have to deal with the police and miss the movies if she had passed (kinda ruins the good deed, huh??)

I feel like my life is a Laurel and Hardy movie!

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I held the door for an entire tour bus-load of senior citizens today.

Wait, was I supposed to hold it open?

Shit. My bad.

Nevermind.

This is a tough topic as I don’t think about the things I do as being ‘good deeds’ or going out of my way. They’re simply what I’d like to believe we should all be doing as human beings. Whether it’s giving a helping hand when needed or doing little favors, we’re all here for each other. It’s probably why I work in healthcare and love what I do. The best thing I can do for someone is making my patients feel better. Sometimes it’s just helping them mentally or providing a needed smile and other times it’s performing the test that diagnoses their illness. Every day is a challenge to myself to have made a sick patient’s day better somehow.

I guess there are example of little things that I don’t think much about. Lately, at one intersection in an impoverished area I sometimes pass through on the way home, I’ve been seeing a few groups/kids collecting money for their teams or youth programs. It’s amazing how many people roll their windows up and ignore these kids. I hope the money I’ve given helps the girls track team to get to Florida and the youth boxing team to buy some new equipment. Last week my gf and I went out to dinner. Halfway through our dinner we overheard a girl come in and ask at the host(ess) stand if anyone had jumper cables. Having one of those nifty RAVPower jump starters in my car I volunteered to help and went out to jump start her car. I hadn’t thought twice about this until I saw this thread. Ironically, on Monday a coworker who often does nice things for people had mentioned wanting to get a small bluetooth speaker. I surprised him with one I had bought here last year and had never opened. He kept trying to pay me for it until I finally convinced him it was simply payback for all that he does for others. Today, I brought in donut holes to share. Ones that I can proudly say I didn’t buy but instead my gf picked up at the market last night specifically to give me to bring in to work.

TL;DR: We should all be superheros every single day. one another!

I’ve resisted making political commentary on Meh for a long time now… That’s my good deed

I was at a restaurant tonight and went to the ladies room. One toilet was full of shit so I used the other one. Then I thought about @mfladd and flushed the disgusting one too. Does that count?

I went out today and handed out free Arizona Ice Teas to people on River Street as the high qas 98 today, heat index 115.

It’s surprising how many people say no, due to being so sceptical about the intentions behind the giver. I’ve done this in the past as well.

I also put out little dime sized tokens with a penny on top that read you are loved on one side and you are beautiful on the other.

I have an Arizona Iced Tea to a guy that was making names out of metal, he wanted to make me one as he was surprised by my RAOK.

I now see this thread and thought I’d share.

I still have 980 more tokens to make, as I bought a bag if 1000.

It didn’t let me edit my post. So many people are appreciative though! One guy asked for another for his cousin, I was happy to oblige.

Another couple were in shock, “Really?” Yup. Really.

CVS has these Arizona drinks on sale for $0.50 and they’re two and a half times the size of a can of soda it seems.

I post this not to toot my own horn, bit to give people ideas!

I used to paint tokens, hot glue giigly eyes and make faces on the top, then put “You are loved” on the bottom, bit I haven’t had enough time. The 1000 are going to be a bit tougher, without paint.

I try to do this kind of thing whenever I can, it makes me happy to see others happy.

I wasn’t going to mention this to anyone, but now that I see this Meh thread, I thought I’d share.

So one of my main IT clients is involved in civil aviation and I spent in excess of thirty hours this week working on their PCs, getting everybody clean installs of Windows 10 (except a few holdouts who insisted on keeping 7) and reinstalling their software and such. Last night I’m there working until 1 AM and talk to one of their night shift guys who is involved with the Civil Air Patrol.

It seems that they have recently obtained two ex-servers from a government facility that they want to use to build a sim pit and he wanted to know where to get inexpensive copies of Windows 7 from. I couldn’t give him much to go off of as this stuff has only gotten more expensive, not less, but we chatted for a bit and I learned that the CAP is 501c3 and relies heavily on donations and fundraising to survive. They have a ton of aging equipment with most of their computers barely able to run XP, much less anything modern.

Fast forward to 1 AM (been there since 10 AM) and I’m packing up my vehicle to leave when I remember I’ve got a Windows 7 Home Premium machine we’d just retired from public use in my trunk destined for recycling. The machine works fine, it’s a bit old but it hasn’t lived a hard life, in reality we retired it simply because having programs blocked via parental controls rather than group policy was embarrassing. I decided to see if he thought the CAP would have a use for it so I spent the next half hour tracking him down (you’d think it would be easy at that hour but there are many buildings) until I finally remember he’s got the phones forwarded to his cell. Long story short, he’s got the computer in his car, offers me a donation letter which I decline, and I leave with his cell phone number for future donation candidates.

Where can I find an online free program that is good to do this (fix an old damaged photo)? There is a 90 year old guy in this building. He was telling the desk he had a wall leak and that it ruined a photo of value to him. Thinking it might be of his wedding or something I waited until he was done with his maintenance request and came back to the elevator and got on with him. Wasn’t that but turned out to be equally irreplaceable.

He had a lovely softly tinted navy portrait photo of him at about, I’d guess, 18 or 19 years old hanging over the crap motel style A/C heater we have. My guess is that it got condensation under the glass and it condensed rather than a wall leak based on the damage to the wall and that these things have given me condensation on the inside of the window that is right next to it (never mind it is 10 degrees warmer in the other room that has no heater/AC).

It needs a photoshop repair (which I can do as my advisor had me do about 100 or so of these for him when his family was fighting over family photos - didn’t know that was in the job description of being a research assistant as a grad student LOL but I learned how to do this and got really good at it). Anyway I don’t own any photoshop type programs. Does anyone know of one that could handle this that is free that I could find online? This is around an 8x10, or so (maybe marginally bigger), photo. Or is there someone who is willing to do this free for him and I can go to office max to use a decent scanner to scan it (my scanner is only 200 resolution) and send you the file.

It is going to need a fair bit of work. He wiped off the mold and unfortunately with it came a fair bit of tint. I am thinking that when enlarging those spots it should be possible to see at least some pixels in the left chin on the left to better reconstruct that as I can almost see that now. It is irreplaceable and he is crushed. I don’t know how much it will then cost me to then print it for him in matt finish at one of those photo printing machines, but it seems to me this is a project worth doing.

A few months back I was shopping at my local grocery store, as per usual I had a cart full of things. I was in no rush and allowed three patrons to go in front of me in line, no big deal on my part… The cashier’s know me by name as do the people bagging groceries for me and in return I know their names. Imagine my surprise when I got to the front of the line the cashier Mary tells me that one of the gentlemen I let go in front of me wanted to say thank you but was in a hurry so he paid 40 dollars towards my groceries. I was speechless I’ve never been the recipient of a random act of kindness before. I am usually the one doing it. It warmed my heart and made me teary eyed. Their are kind people in the world. Just thought I would share a heart warming story.

Helped pack a ton of elementary/middle/high backpacks with supplies for a few hours and then, tomorrow, we’ll give them out to kids in the neighborhood that needs them. We’ll also be handing out snacks and drinks as it got to 102 today and will be that tomorrow as well… 115 heat index or higher due to humidity.

I took my elderly and frail neighbor to Walmart Friday night so she could do grocery shopping while I ran some errands. While I was at Lowes, I helped an elderly man load a HUGE dining room light fixture into his car. Went back to pick up my neighbor and helped her get her groceries into her house. I will be collecting her Golden Retriever this week to take her with me on night walks- because 8pm is only a smidgen cooler than 7pm.

I volunteered at a company called Random Acts of Flowers, they take donations of flowers that stores, florists, banquet halls and the like would have otherwise thrown away, but are still in good condition. Then they create fresh, new floral arrangements and deliver them to area hospitals and other community centers with people in need of cheering up. This particular day was a Friday and they had A LOT of donations that week due to a horticulture show at the area convention center. There were so many flowers left over even after stuffing their coolers full and making up the 150 arrangements needed for that afternoon’s delivery that they offered the volunteers the leftover flowers. I took as many as I could carry, it was about 8 bouquets. I take public transportation into the city so I randomly handed them out to people on the sidewalk en route to the train and on the train. Loved the reaction of the recipients and it cost absolutely nothing!!!

Last night i biked over to nearby bike paths of ellicott city to see how bad the destruction was (flood damage) a guy was also biking on the bike path had popped his bike tube tire. I have my spare and my tire change levers and pump. Our tires were the same size. I fixed his tire and pumped it up only to hear he is a local fireman and had been involved in saving people from the floodwaters. So although go me for being a prepared girlscout go him for actually going into floodwaters.

So, I got the opportunity to have lunch out in public without ruggies… peacefully, enjoying my soup and sandwich allllll by myself. A lady asked if she could take the extra chair from my table. I didn’t yank her chain and tell her that my imaginary friend was sitting there

I went camping this past weekend with my son. At bedtime, I intentionally left some snack foods out for the raccoons, instead of locking them all up. At about 2am, I woke up to hear them gleefully destroying my campsite and eating their snacks.

Okay, it wasn’t intentional at all. I forgot the damn can of Pringles on the table! Little sons of bitches made more noise than Donald Trump at a screaming contest against himself.

I keep meaning to do nice things for people, but I don’t go out much. Does that count as doing something nice for everyone else?

Last night I went to get a pizza for the kids. I noticed a father and his two kids getting dinner. One had a Batman shirt on - I am a sucker for comics. After he paid I told the person at the counter to give them back their money back when the order was ready, I had it covered (tipped him). I stuck around just to see that the deal was done - you never know.

The guy came up to me outside, shook my hand, and thanked me. Again, he looked baffled that someone would do this. (took one out of your book @Yoda_Daenerys

My contest so I am disqualified.

I blame you, @mfladd … this is more a proud post than a do-gooder post

As part of the BSA, we have a sponsoring organization that is in a local church. The Church has a daycare in the hall. Recently, the kids of the daycare had a learning experience of planning a family fun night. They made a list of “wants” and then researched the costs of such “wants”. When they narrowed down the “wants”, they came up with a “need” list. They needed n dollars to do the event. So the kids busted their butts to raise the money they needed. They were sooooo excited that they did it all on their own.

Recently, we found out that someone broke into the daycare and stole their money. I sent a note to my troop committee chair and scoutmaster and they are going to donate a good portion of the money for the fun night. However, they want the boys to agree to the spending of their own hard earned money.

I relayed to my son the circumstances and his response was “That sucks” to the money being stolen, and “Go for it” on the donation. Then, his next concern was whether the kids had been informed that the money was stolen, because “wouldn’t that be terrible to find out at 5-years old that people steal from kids”?? OMG…

To top it off, my kid offered $20 of his own money that he has been saving to invest in arduino parts. My heart is full of pride!!!

I had called the Church secretary to confirm to story was true, and told her I would do my best to help. Not in my wildest dreams, did I expect these results. I love my kid…

So, I got home after a long day of going out to get medicine and chores and I notice the neighbor has a popalock van there.

The guy tried for an hour and couldn’t get it unlocked. He left. I knew how to do it, my fsther got home, so we got it open in ten minutes.

The knob was actually broken, which is why we couldn’t get it undone.

Therefore, I offered to go to Home Depot and get and install her another.

She rold me she was broke, but I told her not to worry about it and to just psy me back sometime.

Once my father gets done putting the weatherstripping back on the door, I’ll go over and install the new lock for her.

If she never pays me back, no biggie.

Just some time and $10 for the cheap lock. She seems surprised I’m going through all this trouble, but I really like to help folk if I can. In this case, I’m able.

I’m by no means rich, living on a fixed income, but I do what I can.

She just moved in two weeks ago and is having all sorts of issues.

#gooddeedfortheday #makesmyhearthappy #loveyourneighbor

Not really random, but still a good deed. Not really sure if it qualifies, but still wanting to share. I’m volunteering to help turn a former crack house into a women’s temporary shelter. So helping to clean up a not so great neighborhood and giving women a place for reprieve from abusive partners and such. It’s a two story building that has two separate apartments, two bedrooms each.

Place was emptied out, today we primered the place. It’s going to get new exterior doors, a new kitchen, new flooring, a few new windows, etc.

I’m hoping my schedule allows for me to go back and help again.

This is the second safe space type shelter that I’ve helped with. It’s sad that these need to exist, but I’m glad to help, at least in a small way.

Well, this probabably happened 4 years ago but has a timely twist so…

It’s a Friday night, my good friend is just leaving after helping me gather misc electronics for a trash run (and beating me 14-7 in wii tetris because I sort of suck).

We open the door and begin the process of carrying said electronics out in boxes to my car for the short trip to the dumpster. To neither of our suprise, the neighborhood crackhead ie my neighbor lady was out watching us and going on about something forgettable, when she notices that in one of the boxes is 15 wii consoles, which when purchased and refurbed had some worth but with the advent of wiiu had fallen into my category of ‘more value in dumpster than $15 a piece on eBay before fees and grief’.

The neighbor, being a 60+ year old female version of a garden gnome didn’t seem the likely target audience (although now thinking about it, 60+ year olds were the only demographic). However on view of the wii’s among the collection of misc electronics, she sort of asked in a sheepish way where we were taking everything. Taking it as a cue, I asked her if she’d like a wii. Her response was one that my friend and I still laugh about to this day. It was something of a crackheaded ‘really? really? Reallllly???’ but probably repeated at least 50 times in that manner, rather loudly as a 60+ year old female crackheaded version of a garden gnome does. I said sure.

I went inside, unhooked and quickly boxed my personal wii, 2Tb hdd full of gamecube games, all of my accessories and of course the battery powered wii sensor bar (I’d modded the original so it could be used in 3 rooms and didn’t feel like desoldering). Brought it out to her, with another series of reallys before her accepting the lot and promising to buy me a pizza.

I proceeded to help my friend with the other boxes of stuff, dumpstered it before taking my friend home.

Two years went by with no free pizza before she finally moved out. To be honest I figured she’d just died or something, at least she wasn’t out there every day I’d come home - keeping tabs on all things ghetto condo life.

My good deed came just last Monday. I was outside working on my car when someone drove around and parked behind me essentially blocking me in. It was the garden gnome, in all of her glorious self, in an expectedly typical mid 90’s Chrysler Cirrus.
She got out of the car, ran (if that’s the word for it) over and gave me a big hug before explaining that she’s been and still is living in an assisted living facility, dealing with her multiple sclerosis. Her parents had also moved with her, and she was doing well but misses talking with me every day when I’d come home from work. I returned the hug, exchanged phone numbers and we’ve been talking nearly every day since.

So I guess my deed up for vote is learning not to judge a book by its cover, that maybe perhaps MS can disguise itself as crackheadedness and to give people more of a chance in life.

Or maybe it’s her that deserves the deed for opening my eyes. Either way it felt good, and recognizing how I’d missed her and her ‘neighborhood watch’ if you will.
Beats the shit out of the white trash above me now with their kids running with shoes on wooden floors day and night, and the since vacant condo now used for drug distribution. You don’t always learn how good you have it until it’s gone.

Crackheaded Garden gnome lady, you were underappreciated and will be forever missed.

Tldr I gave away a wii and learned the value of good friends.

Yesterday I went to the hospital ER to sit with a guy I know from church and brought him some waters and stuff.

I go to the dollar store every month or so and buy stuff like socks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant etc and pack it up into ziplock bags that I keep in my car. When I see a homeless person or someone asking for money, I offer them a bag. I feel like I’ve been pretty lucky when it’s all said and done so I share what and when I can

I always buy someone a gift on my birthday, so I bought someone a gift today.

I guess this would count as one of the more significant things I’ve done recently, tho in truth my only action was serving the ball, so to speak. I’m going to go with it becasue I’m really tired and need to get some sleep.

This may qualify as a good deed by my employer - but I volunteer as a reading coach and help the high school’s robotics team during the school year.

Employees are supposed to log our volunteer hours, which function as entries in a monthly drawing. I won the drawing, and received a $1,000 ‘disbursement card’ to donate to the charity of my choice.

$500 to the classroom where I volunteered, and $500 to the robotics team…

I’m helping my far-away parents shop for houses 50-100 miles from my place. I get along with them better when they’re far away, but they just don’t have access to the medical care they need, and their social network is, uh, dying off. So I’ve revealed my identity to high-pressure salespeople, spent tons of time shopping online and going over their nebulous requirements with the realtors, and will be spending half of every weekend out in the sticks looking at houses for the foreseeable future.

Also, in the door-holding category, a couple of days ago a lady at a craft store was explaining to the cashier why she didn’t have a coupon, so I faux-accidentally chucked my phone (with coupon already displayed, because who walks into a craft store unarmed?) under the cashier’s scanner. Lady was amused.

Stopped at the grocery store and there was a little old lady in front of me who had a cane and was having trouble getting her items out of the cart. I took them out for her, and then loaded the cart back up when the checker was finished. I followed her out to car and loaded it up for her. She asked me why I was such a good samaritan? She then told me, my mother must have raised me right
It made my day.

My contest - DQ’d

This doesn’t qualify because it was on 17Jul but I was at a Braves games. I tend to have to get up and wander at some point so I went in the store near our seats. There was a family behind me and their daughter was saying she was having so much fun and that she was happy she finally got to go to a baseball game. As we are waiting she started looking at some postcards and showing her mom. Her mom was like no, I’m not getting you one…I mean they had several items, I’m sure at least one was for her. Anyhoo, I always love finding a surprise from someone and wanted her to have one since it was her first game. When it was my turn at the register, I picked out a pretty postcard of the stadium at night. I paid for it and added the cashier to give it to the little girl after I left. I would have tried to spy and see if she liked it but got a text that the game was getting good. I have a lot of great memories from going to the games with my family. My father, who has passed away, instilled a love of going to the game in all his daughters. I’ve gone with all but one of my grandkids to their first game so it was as much for me as for that little girl. Not really a good deed, just passing on a little of the love my dad passed to me.

This contest is now closed. Prizes will be announced tomorrow. I have something for everybody. You are a fucking amazing community" Thanks to everyone that posted and tuned in. I now need to focus on fantasy football as I have not done any research yet. So leave me alone.

School starts this week so I dropped off the boxes I always collect through the year. So all year I will collect boxes of the free after rebate ream of paper and the $0.05 glue stick and other loss leader school supplies and just put them in a box and I drop them off every year at the local Catholic school to me. I ended up having two cases of paper about 20 notebooks and a ton of pens and pencils and things like post it notes

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You have been randomly chosen as winners. Please send me a working email address so I can get you amazon gift cards. I want to do another little something for everyone else that did good deeds. But a confidential family emergency has come up that will not allow me the time for this. I apologize.

You are an amazing community.

I will be gone for some time. Take care.