The Psychopath Diaries (aka the anti-random acts of kindness) thread

Some old tourists made me miss a light because they were in the non-turning lane driving slow as fuck then changed to the left turn lane at the last minute, so I rolled down the window and asked "whatsup?"

the apologized though and said they were from out of town.

 

I held the door open for a family last night at Famous Dave's, then they took the last available table right away and I had to wait 15 minutes with the family to be seated.

It made me angry. I won't be holding doors open for families again. I will race them to the door to get my name in first.

 

God knew that's what your response would be. Hence, the outcome.

 

I don't care if the other person is ungrateful. I just like doing good things for people.

I remembered arguing with my dad about people taking advantage of him. He replied. I maybe burned by 90 people, but that 91th person givese enough blessings to make up for the burns.

I live by that daily

 

That's total crap.... I hope you don't believe that?!?

 

The only time I'm a little too aggressive and mean in real life is when I'm on my bike and people cut me off, especially the ones you can tell did it on purpose. When I feel it's on purpose, I usually try and catch up and bust off their mirrors or dent their doors with a good kick. Not often at all, but I have done it maybe 8 times total.

 

Geez, work with me here, mags.

 

Oh sorry! Lol

 

Huh? Seems to me every time I've done that in the past, the kindness has been reciprocated with a "go ahead".

That family has karma coming to them.

 

I'm also reminded of something that happened at Fred Meyer to me 3 years ago. I had groceries, went through the self-checkout, and got $40 cash back. When I got home, I realized that I had forgotten to take the cash, so I called the store. They said that the people after me had found it, and taken it to Customer Service, and they would have it for me.

Meanwhile, turns out the dad was "teaching" his son that you should let the store know when you find money, but you can take it then. I went back to the store, and probably passed the guy on my way in, but the Customer Service counter was so rattled by it they were going to call the police on the guy for theft. I said no biggie, the kid was going to have a hard enough life, and Freddie's gave me the $40, anyhow, since they had replayed the video and knew I hadn't taken the cash.

 

That was a pretty lame move on their part....that is, unless they were just dense and had no idea what just happened.

 

I am slowly starting to accept that not every good deed is going to end with the outcome I desire. Being a courteous driver pisses me off to no end. No matter how mad I get or how nice I am, people are going to drive idiotically. I asked a friend to go to the Heat game last season and he replied that it would be appreciated if he could get two tickets to take his girlfriend. Sold him a pair discounted and he had something come up at work. Instead of offering the tickets back to me, he sold them.

I do not believe in karma, but believe you reap what you sow.

 

currently listening to the 48 Laws of Power. :MARIS61:

 

Four driving decisions I made a long time ago that has worked wonders for me:

1) As much as possible, allow ample time to get from point A to point B.

2) Stay clear of folks in front of me (i.e. no tail-gating)

3) There are numskull and out-of-town drivers all over the place. Stay WELL clear of them!

3 - and most importantly) Understand that there are plenty of jerk drivers out there. As difficult as it might be, refuse to allow them get you angry. Bite the tongue, say a prayer, look the other way.....whatever.

 

I was going to a ducks game and in Eugene early in the morning at the ATM outside the student UO store, a woman walked away from the machine leaving her entire wallet that she just put her money in, on the ledge of the machine. I realized, grabbed it, started running after her yelling " hey mam, hey you left, hey, your wallet" but she started running away from me. I actually had to sprint to track her down and return her wallet. It turned out that a transient had accosted her at that spot a couple weeks earlier and she was freaked out, thinking I was chasing her to do harm. I mugged the bitch. Just kidding about mugging, but the rest of the story happened.

 

But guess what?! You did what you want others to do to you. You can only control yourself. What other people do on your kindness is on them. You did the right thing!

I am honored to know you

 

I would not go that far. I expected him to do what I thought was the right thing and he did not. His birthday was a couple of weeks ago and he invited me to his get together. Had it not been for him doing what he did, I would have went.

 

Oh there is no reason to do him a favor again. If someone takes advantage of you; just live and learn. Just don't let it stop you from doing something nice for someone else...

 

Okay here's mine... Happened about 20 years ago.

Before I start the story, I want to explain how much I was an avid collector of basketball cards. Some baseball cards too. I had Jordan, charles barkely, karl malone, drexler and many other 86 rookie cards. I had every shaq rookie card imaginable, some limited edition gold plated ones. I had a Nolan Ryan rookie and a 1980 tops magic, bird rookie. So many others to count, but the estimated value was 25k for my entire collection at the time.

Now I had this friend that just got kicked out of his house. He was a bad boy, but I considered him a friend. I took him in and allowed him to stay at my apartment.

Long story short. One day I came home and my friend left. I looked around and saw my 12 gauge missing and all my basketball cards were pulled out of their albums. The only cards left were my Portland trailblazer players. Everything else was missing.

I never saw the guy again. It was a very sad day because it took me over 10 years to collect them all. Every allowance was used to go to the baseball card shop after school.

This has happened a lot of times to me. My friends have burned me the most. If I ever see that guy again, I wouldn't even bring it up. Live and learn I always say.

 

That's pretty messed up for your friend to reap the resale value of the tix when you gave him a good deal.

I definitely know my fair share of people that would try to do the same thing as your friend. So rude.