Have any of you seen the movie Pay it Forward? If not, shame on you. It's a pretty good flick. Pay it Forward (2000) Rated PG-13

Anyway, RP started a Good Deed thread awhile back, and it got me thinking, along with the movie....What if everyone tried to go out of their way to do at least one good deed everyday?

Hmmm, what can it hurt?

I started today. I stopped by the store for a guy I work with. He's in a wheel chair and a major pain in the butt to stop, get out of his car, and go inside to buy his smokes. He has asked me to do it from time to time, and I always do, no matter what I have going on at lunch. Anyway, that's not the good deed. That's a "my pleasure" type thing. BTW....smokes are high. How do you smokers do it?

ANYWAY...While I was there, the attendant was taking the trash out of the can by the door when I walked in. He had to drop what he was doing to help me, right. Well, when I was walking to my truck, I grabbed the trash bag and tossed it in the dumpster for him.

Now, my good deed wasn't nearly as impressive as RP's, but it's a start. I'm gonna start doing this everyday...not trash, but whenever I see that I can help someone out, I'm gonna take advantage of that.

Who's with me? Post your good deeds here, and lets see how we can take the first step in making the world a better place.....or are you SCARED.

 

My good deed for the day was not punching someone. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

Jamz! How can buying cancer sticks be a good deed? Seems a bit ironical to me.

 

Edit: Golly gee Jamzwayne. I sure can try.

 

Well, my good deed almost sunk my boat on Monday. I was coming into the harbor, and I see a BIG 26-28' cuddy cabin, who somehow got caught up in the logs, and a rope had gotten wrapped around his prop. Some idiot in a bass buggy pond boat with a trolling motor was trying to pull him out. Me being the nice guy that I am, goes over to help him. I was about 15' from the shore, when I hear a loud bam, and the boat comes to a stop and the motor shoots up out of the water. I'm guesing I hit a log, the water is so cloudy that you can't see more than a foot into it. I figured it just hit my lower unit, cause it sits about 1 1/2 feet below the bottom of the boat. Anyways, I drag the boat out, sit at the dock for a minute, and get my boat on the trailer. I pull the drain plug, and notice a LOT of water is coming out. I look closely at a scuff on the transom of the boat (the back wall where the motor is mounted), and I noticed that the log hit the boat just right on the edge, which pushed the fiberglass up enough to create a hole about 3/4" by 1/8". Doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're in a 16' bathtub toy, it could have gotten ugly very fast. Hopefully, I'll get a guy here to ride up to St. Charles with me for a day and fix it, it builds custom fiberglass sub boxes, so I'm pretty confident in his work.

 

Apparently you didn't read ALL OF my post.

 

yeah, I did, just was a little slow on the uptake. happens at my age.

 

...and you dont know what Twizzlers are.

 

are they the little red plastic sticks?

 

Late at night I see a car with three tires on the side of the interstate.
Take the exit and there is a guy rolling a tire down the street.
He would have been heading in right direction if that station had been open but I knew it wasn't.
I stop, we toss the tire in the back and we go a considerable distance the wrong way (for me) to find an open station for air (his spare was flat). I have to go back past the exit to the next one to get on the rightside of the highway to his car.

I park my truck close to the right lane to protect him and provide headlights while he changes his leftside flat.

He tries to give me $20.
I refuse.
I told him if he wants to repay me just help somebody else out when given the oppurtunity.

(so I don't have to, damn)

 

I did a good deed for my family today by looking for a new job after my boss decided that it would be more profitable to salary everyone at 1/2 of what we were making without a schedule. The real good deed, and a feeling of self satisfaction will come when I tell him to take his job and shove it.

 

Did he offer it to you in the form of a check?

 

Uh no but, I was a little surprised that he didn't have his key, his driver's window was busted and he had to wire stuff under the dash to get it going.

...but that ain't none of my business.

 

Umm yea, pay it forward is good in theory (also an excelent movie) but if I remember right, then it didn't work out so well in the movie.....
Yea if thats what it gets ya, then I'll just be a rude, self centered, crabby ***.

 

Sometimes you are better off not asking questions.