Have you ever done a good deed for someone you will never meet?

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Roland of Gilead

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Instant Karma: Picking up someone whose car broke down, and having them pity your falling-apart beater so bad they give you $20 :D Happened to me about ten years back.
 
AltarNation

AltarNation

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Hmm... yeah, sure, small things plenty of times... but that is called courtesy basically...

I threw a crumpled twenty in a street performer's case right before jumping on a train once... it felt good to dodge the 'thanks situation' connected to the offering for some reason.

That's the only thing that really stood out in my mind.

Confession: The reason it stood out in my mind was because she was a cute curly red-haired chick close to my age who was totally rocking out, and was busking. Bias is certainly a factor in that situation... I didn't know her, but would have liked to.

I figured i'd diffuse whatever degree to which it sounded like I was doing something selfless, heh.
 
Hepheastus420

Hepheastus420

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SirGreenThumb said:
Today myself and my fiancee went to the lake to go feed the ducks some bread, and me being the hunter I am I strolled off into the deep woods tracking some deer tracks and came across a camp in the middle of the woods. I began to look around the camp and I came across this note on a stump that read:

"I have lost everything and I am currently at the shelter and I return every night. I promise that I will clean everything up when I get back on my feet and you will never know that I was here."

Well as it turns out, my fiancee kept scaring away the ducks and she came and found me in the woods with the pack of bread, so I took the bread, found a sharpie that was laying in the camp and wrote on this persons note " Left you some bread, Merry Christmas."
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But you ruined it by claiming credit! Still a very good deed of you. Good job dude :)
 
lahadaextranjera

lahadaextranjera

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Whenever I had time left on a parking ticket I used to stick it back on the meter for the next person to use. Other people driving out of car parks offering me their remainder tickets gave me the idea. I did it for years. Parking is too expensive anyway so why not help out the next motorist ?
 
AltarNation

AltarNation

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When I'm eating out and about, I always try to leave any left over food on top of barrels instead of in them if possible.

This is a good one for everyone to do, there are hungry people out there.
 
Carne Seca

Carne Seca

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kinetic said:
Have you seen the Canary Effect yet Carne?
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Kill the Indian, save the man. I've watched as much as I could handle. I took me months to get through Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The atrocities and policies listed in the book made me physically ill.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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SirGreenThumb said:
He does truly have a beautiful place to live there in the woods. If you think about it he has plenty of food. There are deer in those woods and there is a lake full of fish. I was thinking about going back one day and building a teepee back there, but my fiancee said she seen a tent. Even still, maybe I could go build him a furnace out of stone. Idk. Or I could write him a note and tell him how to build a fridge there in the woods. (Dig a hole about a foot deep, make a screen out of sticks to set on top of the hole, cover the screen with moss. Walaa things will stay nice and cool. And the moss will keep animals away from your food.)
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All good ideas but i would add one cavil. The fellow has found a place to be alone. The notes are good, but I would add the promise to never show up unannounced/unarranged. He might need the time away from the shelter to deal with social anxiety or PTSD or who knows ... but I'd be very careful about "crowding his space" and making him feel that he needs to find another that will certainly be less nice or close. The fact that he left a pre-emptive note is pretty cool on his part imo. cn
 
SirGreenThumb

SirGreenThumb

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cannabineer said:
All good ideas but i would add one cavil. The fellow has found a place to be alone. The notes are good, but I would add the promise to never show up unannounced/unarranged. He might need the time away from the shelter to deal with social anxiety or PTSD or who knows ... but I'd be very careful about "crowding his space" and making him feel that he needs to find another that will certainly be less nice or close. The fact that he left a pre-emptive note is pretty cool on his part imo. cn
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Yea, I would probably not go back it was just a "thought."
Also by him acknowledging that someone may find his place and having the state of mind to say he is going to clean everything up, I'm sure he isn't worried about someone crowding his space. Besides that, it's in the middle of the woods where people walk every single day. I just so happen to walk a little deeper into the woods and find his camp, and who knows, maybe he appreciated me writing back and wishing him a merry christmas.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
SirGreenThumb said:
Yea, I would probably not go back it was just a "thought."
Also by him acknowledging that someone may find his place and having the state of mind to say he is going to clean everything up, I'm sure he isn't worried about someone crowding his space. Besides that, it's in the middle of the woods where people walk every single day. I just so happen to walk a little deeper into the woods and find his camp, and who knows, maybe he appreciated me writing back and wishing him a merry christmas.
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I will bet he did. cn
 
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tjsap24

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Anonymously sent my bank teller a big bouquet of flowers because she looked so sad and told me her husband was ill and they didn't know if he'd make it. He did.
 
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