Shokan

1)what was the situation?

2)what did you do to help them?

3)what was the result?

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1) A friend of mine got kicked out of her home.

2) Let her stay on my couch until she could find a job and get back on her feet.

3) She found a job about 2 months later, and moved out soon after. I got my reward from a threesome that she invited me into! Helping people rules.

spectre

1.) Friend's mother needed a procedure but he and his mother were too broke to pay for it and the insurance was hassling them.

2.) Offered to help pay for it.

3.) The insurance company finally decided to cover it before I went to the bank to withdraw the money.

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JadziaDax

So many to choose from....
Here's a pleasant ending one:

1. My niece was having problems in Algebra, and with 5 children, my step-sister doesn't have the time or the resources to find tutors for her daughter.

2. I offered my services, but being that I don't live around the corner, coming to the house would be difficult.

3. Throughout the school year, my niece would call me on the phone with her problems, and we discussed them. She's getting great grades.

Spanky Johnson

Not sure if family counts, but I bought my brother a computer. His life was pretty crappy at the time and to top it off his ancient P1-75 (!) died, so I bought him the same thing I had - if I remember right it was an Athlon T-bird 1.33

Daval

I've done minor little things like hold a door open for someone. Help someone I don't know with their grocery bags (if I see them struggling) or a heavy box. In the winter I helped push a number of cars that had become stuck.

I get the satisfaction that I've helped make someones day.

The threesome would be nice though.

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mtsgsd

Well I've been thinking about this one and I know I have done this. I just couldn't remember a specific example. I just realized today that I'm really being stupid, because we're helping someone right now! LOL

We have a friend who is going thru a divorce and need a place to stay. Since she owns/shows 6 Rottweilers, this isn't easy to find, so we're letting her stay with us rent free. Did I mention that we have 6 dogs as well? Good thing we have a 3acre hobby farm.

There's more related to helping animals, but I'm glad I can say I've helped at least one human...

platypus

Late at night and low on gas, a friend and I are driving back to Denver from a road trip to Vegas. Somewhere west of Grand Junction we passed a car on the side of the road with a young couple leaning against it. We pulled over and rolled back to them. I forget what was wrong with their car, but it was more than just out of gas. We ended up towing them for about 30 miles until we found an open gas station. The extra weight almost caused us to run out of gas. Filled our tank, left them with a mechanic, and went on our way.

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ganon

10 yrs old, walking to school. about a block from school see a little girl, maybe 7, that fell down and split her head open. I picked her up and carried her to school, to the nurses office.
they made me a patrol-dude. I got kicked off the patrol when i changed one of my grades on my report card.

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clavus

Sometimes things work out. Sometimes they don't -

1) The rain screamed sideways on the Yolo Causeway, yet the evening traffic continued to roar over it unhindered. A woman with two little kids in her car was trying to change her flat tire. She couldn't get the wheel off. Her ass was hanging inches from the traffic. It sucked to be her.

I pulled over to help. Asked her to get back in the car so she wouldn't get too wet. I changed the tire.

When it was done, I was soaking wet and covered with grime. The woman and her little kids were able to get out of a dangerous situation, and the woman didn't get all wet and nasty. It was a good thing.

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2) My friend befriended an immigrant family from Iran. She helped them in many ways. One day she told me that one of the kids in the family loved to ride his friend's skateboard, and that she intended to buy him one.

I told her not to. I bought the most badass skateboard in the local skate shop, and gave it to her as a gift to him. He broke his arm skating.

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MadGeek451

1) A close friend of mine took 25g of Tylenol in an attempt to kill himself. 25g is about 50 extra strength pills.

2) Called 911 and spent ten panic-filled minutes trying to help the operator find his address.

3) The police rushed him to the hospital at midnight on a Wednesday. He was released from the hospital Saturday. He's still the same fun-loving kid I remember. I developed a brief fear of Wednesday nights. I became more proactive.

That was the single most terrifying night of my life.

MacGnG

i was a boy scout so i helpped a lot of people

i cant think of anything speific but the look on someones face when u help them and they really appreciate it is probly the best

i also learned all kindsa skills which have been invaluable

HiThereDear

It's my first vacation from school in a couple years

Adult literacy program people called and asked if I could tutor somebody

I am tutoring somebody

lol

WhoaitsZ

SHIT!!! i always help guys out when they need a place to crash!

*writes down: find WOMEN, not dudes who needs homes*

WhoaitsZ

not to inflate my ego at all, but I help people all the time.

why? I like it. it makes me feel good. sometimes it bites me in the ass, and then I will sometimes become quite evil and get nasty revenge. liiiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkeee

you guys don't know him yet, but Quo8 and I have been great friends for 16 years. i helped in get into computers by giving him my old 386.

now i am not a pc guy. if i look at my tower in the way it doesn't like, it will end up crashing or burn down or something. my gift is not remotely for computer - anyhoo

now he is a engenere guru and most a pc guru too and when i fuck up my box, guess who i call!

another instance is my lovely brothers! *smoochie!* they screwed me over all the time!

so i loaned them money for years with no payback at times. it made me so happy that i learned to say "no". the other day one needed money and i hesitated but intended to say okay. cuz this time the reason is pretty dire, so if i get fucked or not i'll help him. anyway, he made me a deal.

i gave him $250. now i own


Gamecube: two controllers, a memory card, Mario Sunshine and Tonky Haw Pro Skater 3

X-Box: two controllers, a memory card and a game i keep forgetting



help people out when you can. not for personal gain. one day you'll get paid back.

mrap1

My friend had an expensive piece of software that she wanted to back up by burning to another CD. She's kinda computer illiterate so I offered to help her, to burn it on my own computer. I take the CD put it in a folder in my bookbag (cause I was going to school). In between classes I went to the library to study for a test next period. I take out all my materials including the folder and proceed to study. Before I know it, it's time to go take my test. I hurriedly put everything in my bookbag and run to class. Guess what I forgot? You guessed it the folder with the CD in it. So in trying to do my friend a favor I wound up having to give her the full cost of the CD which was 300 bucks. That's what I get for trying to help someone, making my wallet 300 bucks lighter.

Plummie

Last year I met a homeless Vietnam War veteran on the street. We chatted for a minute and he showed me his veterans ID so we could laugh at his picture because he found it amusing.

He was very hungry, so I bought him a large cheese pizza from across the street because I had a little extra cash on me. He had no idea about it, and the surprise was the best part!

It made me feel good to see him happy and at least fed well for the next couple days. It feels nice to help people out, especially veterans who have nowhere to turn but the streets.

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vermin

Living in Madison, back in '87, my friend went out in the morning to go to school and found that his car had been stolen. That evening we're sitting around his apartment bemoaning the fate of his white Pontiac Omega, when he gets up out of his chair and says, "I can't just sit here and wait for the cops to call, let's go look for it." So I think fine, we'll drive around for a while, he'll cool off, and then we'll go back to his place and drink beer and play foosball (he had a foosball table, that's not a typo). So we get in my truck, a '79 Chevy Luv with a wooden stake bed. We're driving around, up and down the busy streets, through some residential areas for about an hour and a half. When we decided to give up and started back for his place, he suddenly shouts "There it is!". I whip an illegal u-turn crossing a grass median and the chase begins. Up and down various streets in the downtown area, around the state capital building three or four times, all the while obeying stop lights, stop signs, and not breaking speed limits by more than five or ten mph. They turn up the south driveway to the capital building with us following. At the top of the driveway is a loop for turning around. They went to the right of the loop and we went around to the left to head them off. I stopped the truck accross the driveway blocking their escape, Tim (a 6'3" former high school football player) jumps out of the truck, grabs an aluminum bat out of the back of the truck, runs over to his car, pulls open the door, and yells "Get the fuck out of my car, NOW!". Three very scared looking teenagers (2 boys and a girl) get out of the car begging for their lives. I went and knocked on the door of the capital hoping to get a security guard to call the city cops. A guy comes to the door wearing a badge and a patch that says "Capital Police". They made the arrest, we filled out statements, and Tim was informed that he was very lucky he didn't hit any of the kids with the bat. In fact, they wrote up the reports omitting the bat since it didn't seem relevant. Nothing was missing from the car, and there was no damage to it.

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i8one2

Going the extra mile at my job, but not really,when a lady in her mid fifties came in with her father who was in his mid eighties and staying at a nursing home near by. He couldn't hear very well, or see or walk, but the love those two had, made just want to do everything possible to make their time together as easy and as enjoyable as possible.

Well, I have known then for about 2-3 years and He passed away. Not even aweek later, still in very very deep morning, this wonderful daughter/lady came in, driving for over 20 minutes from where she lives just to see me to tell me that what I did for them was treasured! Man did that hit me, I was just being myself..We both started crying, and I told her how much that meant to me...Damn I'm crying again now.

She gave me something so precious, in the sense that who and what I am are OK... I lost alot of self doubt that day, and I now know that I am indeed a good person because of her

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phredgreen

summer of my junior year in high school me and a group of kids my age went doen into tijuana to build a home for a woman who needed it... habitat for humanity type thing. now you hafta understand there's no reliable water and no electricity, so we hadta pack everything in (except water that was brought down in a tanker truck, but still in very short supply) and do all the work by hand... no powertools at all. in the timeframe of a week we moved this woman, her brother, and her six kids out of a garden shed (literally) and into a real home. talk about some warm fuzzies. it was trip well worth making.

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Jolt

I volunteer at the local public library, taking care of their public access computers, and occasionally donate some thirdhand components. As this is a low-income area, the machinery gets a lot of use, and there isn't a very good budget to support it.

I make a lot of people happy without their knowing it, which suits me just fine. I prefer the satisfaction to the recognition.

~springrain

My daughter, who is 8 years old, dances at a local studio here in town...

last year... one week before their recital, her jazz class FINALLY received the cotumes they had been waiting months for.

the girls all excitedly pull their costumes out of the bags and began to try them on. unfortunately there was one girl in the class, who was rather overweight. it just about broke my and the instructors hearts when this very girl broke down into tears because her costume was entirely too small.

there were 7 days until recital... and not nearly enough time to re-order a costume (which was not possible anyway). I offered to alter the costume for her - since it was too small... this pretty much meant making a new one from scratch.
the sewing on this particular costume was not an easy task, and i must admit that i groused about the amount of work in the short time i had.

ANWAY... to make a long story short... i had the costume ready at dress rehearsal, the day before the recital. when she walked out of the dressing room... with her costume on... she had tears in here eyes... but she was smiling SO HUGE... the costume fit perfectly... and she was beaming! she hugged me and hugged me... and could not stop thanking me...

i cannot describe how good i felt, knowing that i gave that little girl even a moment of feeling "okay"... of feeling like she "fit in" and wasn't that "fat girl" that didn't match the rest of the group.

i'll never forget it... it often amazes me how what seem to be the smallest of things at the time, can be so monumental and meaningful for the people on the receiving end.



good thread... thanks Shokan!

Tirian

I picked up a hitchhiker once. I lived in a log cabin about 30 miles outta town, and on the way he told me his story.

He'd been travelling around the states, and was on his way back to Alaska, and got mugged and had all his $$ taken and was hitching his way back through Canada to Alaska. This is a long route folks. Probably better than 4,000 km.

It was near 11:00 PM, so I invited him to spend the night at my cabin. (Later as I went to sleep I was a little nervous about this, but things were OK)

I really had no real food in the cabin, as I mostly ate in town, but I don't think this guy had seen much food on a lot of his journey. He ate and ate. We had some creative uses of available groceries.

In the morning, I packed him the best lunch I could find in a sack, and slipped in the cash I had in my pocket before he headed off down the highway.

There were tears in his eyes as he thanked me and we parted the next morning.

I sincerely hope that small kindnesses like this can be passed on from person to person making the entire human race just a little kinder to each other.

BoCo

1)what was the situation? I knew a guy named Eric who was only 14 when I was 20. We were both skateboarders, so I was around him quite a lot. He was the typical rebelious teen with divorced parents, who turned to cigarettes, weed, and alcohol. As young as he was, and considering the type of people he was around most (with me being the exception) I had a bad feeling he was going to go down the same road a lot of people do in his situation.

2)what did you do to help them? I threatened to kick his ass if he continued smoking around me (most people knew me well enough not to ignore a threat from me), and I told him if I ever caught him with weed I'd make a citizen's arrest (again, no one would doubt I'd do it) and have him thrown in jail. One day I stole his cigarettes and made him watch while I tore up every single one right in front if him; there was nothing he could do about it.

3)what was the result? I didn't see the kid for a couple months after that day, and when I did see him again, he was completely differrent. He was wearing clean, nice clothes, his hair was cut, and he had a much happier look about him. I asked him what the hell happened, and he told me that the day after I trashed his cigs, he decided to go back to church. He ended up quiting smoking cigs and weed, and quit drinking, too. He even got really into his church, and became a member of the staff so he could help out around there. The last time I saw him he was doing great and had a totally new outlook on life. The weird part is that I got him to change in the way he did long before I started going back to church (which was only recently). I keep hoping to run into him again just so I can see how he's doing.

(yes, this was a 100% true story)

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rainincarnate

1. -- Very cliched but there was an old lady trying to get across a sort of slow moving but jammed road.

2.-- I helped her across the road by stoppping the traffic.

3. -- I got laughed at by a load of people in a few cars...

so would i do it again....probably, it justifies the fact i never give to charity.

Ho hum....