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Screwed Over Attempting a Good Deed
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:42 pm
Ever happened to you?
Years ago, I was preparing to put my boat in the water after having work done on it. I was at the marina where I normally dry stored it and I wanted to check it out in the water before putting it up in storage.
It was late in the day and the storage was about to to close. A guy came up while I was prepping and looked desperate. He said he had left his lights on and needed a jump and there was no one around to help. He said he needed to leave in a hurry for some appointment. I told him I needed to get my boat in the water, run it to make sure the repairs were good, and get it back in time to put it in storage.
He walked off and went to the office and no one was there. As I watched him walk off, I yelled to him and told him to come back. I always bring a small battery jumper with me just in case my boat doesn’t start. I told him he could use it and just put it in the bed of my truck while I was out running my boat. He thanked me profusely and said he would.
I took my boat for a 5 minute run and when I got back, I didn’t see him or his vehicle. As you can guess, he did not put the jumper in my truck bed.
Its crap like this that makes you wary to help people.
Years ago, I was preparing to put my boat in the water after having work done on it. I was at the marina where I normally dry stored it and I wanted to check it out in the water before putting it up in storage.
It was late in the day and the storage was about to to close. A guy came up while I was prepping and looked desperate. He said he had left his lights on and needed a jump and there was no one around to help. He said he needed to leave in a hurry for some appointment. I told him I needed to get my boat in the water, run it to make sure the repairs were good, and get it back in time to put it in storage.
He walked off and went to the office and no one was there. As I watched him walk off, I yelled to him and told him to come back. I always bring a small battery jumper with me just in case my boat doesn’t start. I told him he could use it and just put it in the bed of my truck while I was out running my boat. He thanked me profusely and said he would.
I took my boat for a 5 minute run and when I got back, I didn’t see him or his vehicle. As you can guess, he did not put the jumper in my truck bed.
Its crap like this that makes you wary to help people.
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Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:46 pm to Kirby59
No good deed goes unpunished.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:46 pm to Kirby59
quote:
I always bring a small battery jumper with me just in case my boat doesn’t start.
Now he does too.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:47 pm to Kirby59
Guy in the university area of south LC had a flat driving through all of the destruction after hurricane Laura. I gave him my bottle jack and four way, told him to just drop it off at my office. Never saw either 
I’m done being nice.
I’m done being nice.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:50 pm to Kirby59
Every single time.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:51 pm to Kirby59
My church paid someone’s water bill for them.
The woman at the water company took the account number off the check and paid her bills with it.
I guess dumbass thought we wouldn’t notice
That’s not a personal story, but I have too many of those to share.
The woman at the water company took the account number off the check and paid her bills with it.
I guess dumbass thought we wouldn’t notice
That’s not a personal story, but I have too many of those to share.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:53 pm to Kirby59
OR… he put it in the truck bed and left. Someone stole it after they saw him put it in there and now you are sending all kinds of bad Karma to some innocent dude.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:58 pm to Kirby59
Or when you volunteer to help a stranger with a ten minute task and the issues cascade into a two-hour event.
Only an a-hole walks away.
Only an a-hole walks away.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 3:59 pm to Kirby59
I live in New Orleans. I asked a guy if he knew where he got his shoes the other day, and he didn't realize he got them on his feet. I shined his shoes for him, and he walked off without giving me money.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 5:28 pm to Mushroom1968
Posted on 12/22/25 at 5:32 pm to GreenRockTiger
quote:can you get Jesus to pay mine too?
My church paid someone’s water bill for them.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 5:45 pm to keks tadpole
quote:
Or when you volunteer to help a stranger with a ten minute task and the issues cascade into a two-hour event.
This right here. A variant of this is when someone asks you to do something not understanding how long it takes to do it, as though it’s a “quick favor.”
No. We won’t be able to finish pouring a driveway for you in time for the game.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:52 pm to Kirby59
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:54 pm to Kirby59
I learned the folly of compassion pretty quick.
As a young bellman in the French Quarter, a desperate looking guy came up looking for bus fare to Baton Rouge. Feeling sorry, I gave him $5. He immediately walked to the next corner to the grocery store at Bourbon & Conti, and came out drinking a pint of alcohol. I felt like a fool.
The very next day, a priest came up to my belldesk, and was profusely apologetic stating he hated to ask, but he ran out of gas two blocks away on Dauphine St. He asked for $20 and promised he would return asap to pay it back. I gave him $20 and never saw him again. Lesson learned.
Now, I only help out people when I initiate contact & am in the giving-spirit, never when someone begs or tries to guilt me into charity with their hard luck story.
As a young bellman in the French Quarter, a desperate looking guy came up looking for bus fare to Baton Rouge. Feeling sorry, I gave him $5. He immediately walked to the next corner to the grocery store at Bourbon & Conti, and came out drinking a pint of alcohol. I felt like a fool.
The very next day, a priest came up to my belldesk, and was profusely apologetic stating he hated to ask, but he ran out of gas two blocks away on Dauphine St. He asked for $20 and promised he would return asap to pay it back. I gave him $20 and never saw him again. Lesson learned.
Now, I only help out people when I initiate contact & am in the giving-spirit, never when someone begs or tries to guilt me into charity with their hard luck story.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:56 pm to Kirby59
A dude asked me to push his truck because it wouldn’t start when I first started driving at a ghetto gas station in Baker
I pushed it and he turned it on immediately and gunned it
I fell down and he sprayed mud all over me
It was pretty funny in retrospect
I pushed it and he turned it on immediately and gunned it
I fell down and he sprayed mud all over me
It was pretty funny in retrospect
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:01 pm to SuperSaint
quote:
can you get Jesus to pay mine too?
He paid a lot more than that.
There’s a “catch” though: he’s returning to judge the quick and the dead.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:03 pm to Kirby59
Here’s a good one….
I saw a guy broken down leaving a friends apartment in Corpus Christi at 2am. I stopped jumped him off and he said “ I’m a chef at a place bring your friends drinks on me.. food too. There will be girls.” The place was called peppers. Had no idea till we walked in it was a strip club. He brought out pitchers and some appetizers for free and sent girls over. I had a spot in my shoulder where a shooting pain through my body. Well one stripper behind me, on stranding in front ( standing on the chair) my arm goes forward karate chopped stripper goes flying and we got kicked out. Everything free. Damn to be 19 again.
I saw a guy broken down leaving a friends apartment in Corpus Christi at 2am. I stopped jumped him off and he said “ I’m a chef at a place bring your friends drinks on me.. food too. There will be girls.” The place was called peppers. Had no idea till we walked in it was a strip club. He brought out pitchers and some appetizers for free and sent girls over. I had a spot in my shoulder where a shooting pain through my body. Well one stripper behind me, on stranding in front ( standing on the chair) my arm goes forward karate chopped stripper goes flying and we got kicked out. Everything free. Damn to be 19 again.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:05 pm to Kirby59
That's methed up
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:16 pm to Kirby59
That would piss me off. How hard is it to be a decent person? You helped him out so he steals your battery jumper. Unappreciative people is a pet peeve of mine.
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