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Lé.Skiing
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This may be a terrible idea as trolls tend to troll but, I know everyone on here has a nice side to them... 
Here's something I am currently doing for someone I know some people are gonna say stupid idea or man this plans gonna backfire. Well whatever... Back to whats important.
  so this person I know has been having a rough time and recently got kicked out of her house because they reported something to social services.  Their parents are giving them a hard time about everything (they are under the age of 19 and just graduating).  The father of this person has been totally abusing his fatherly duties and totally not being an ideal male role model(imo).  I have been their to talk to this person when they need someone to boost their confidence.  I in no way shape or form expect to get anything from helping this person.  I just I guess like helping people out when they need someone.  Continuing the story...  I am going to be helping this person get a cell phone as their parents are going to be cutting it off( I know how shitty it is to be without a cell.  Plus they would need one to remain employed and live on their own).   None of the family members are going to help out like grand mother father or mother.  I guess their bent out of shape because this person has gotten the authorities involved.  They did warn their father to stop with the abusive behavior and said one more time and they were going to move out.  Shit got out of hand later and the person did what they had to to, to feel like they would have a secure environment.  Their parents and family pretty much disowning them.  I think its terrible when people don't even want to help their own fucking kids.  Their own flesh and blood.  So I as a responsible adult(I still find it weird saying that) am going to help out this person.  I do understand its probably not best to get into famiy matters.  I don't think some people understand the severity this could hold on a person on a psychological level( I to this day can't eat the last of anything just in case someone else wants it because my dad used to give us shit for eating everything of something I laugh about it because I do kind of find it funny that such a small thing can make up who you are). 

So I guess out of all of this(Hope you could understand what I was saying.) I'm trying to say is that paying it forward can probably have the biggest impact on a persons life.    So just a little story to kinda of help people realize that people can be nice and I hope that some people have some good stories they can post.   I know some people mock others for being nice.  but sometimes its the nice things people do that keep this world in motion and kinda bring people out of a slump.  I also understand that some people may think (this person is going to really appreciate you posting whats going on in their lives on the internet.   but here's the thing about this.  Why shouldn't you share the nice things you have done for someone.  The reason I am sharing is the hopes that maybe if someone knows someone else the feel the need to help, help them out.  whats the worst that can be said about you?  look at it how you want to look at it but I am hoping to create one of the first threads dedicated to help and kind of give back to people that deserve it.  You may ask who deserves to be happy?  everyone.  I hope people have some interesting stories about doing something for someone that kinda just helped them in such a way that may not have been a big deal to a person hepling them but the person it helped may in that moment make them think that people sometimes are willing to help them out when they least expect it...  I hope to brighten at least one persons day with this story.  thank you for taking the time to read this all and please keep this thread on the positive side of things.  I understand that some people may have negative thoughts on the subject.  so hope everyone feels like they can share a positive story and contribute to brighten someones day :)
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Masta_Baka
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i think thats really cool of you i had a friend go through the same thing when i was in high school and it was really hard on them but they had a great support system and managed to make it through and are now stornger because of it. people need help and you gotta do what you gotta do to help them so more power to ya.

anyways for my good deed of the week, last night i was at a friend of mines party and a huge fight broke out and me being me decided to try and break it up. in doing so i pushed to kids away from eachother and in doing so one kid thought i was trying to fight him so he punched me in the ear. Kid was a good friend of the house owner and was just defending the house. just so happend that we were on the same side and shit happens. anyways after attempting to break up a fight so the kids didnt get the cops called. the cops rolled up. during this time i helped all the drunk scared freshman from getting in trouble. the cops werent doing anything to the people who were following directions so we all got out safe. After making it outside of the house i see a freshman kid blacked out drunk stumbling across the road. I helped him into my car and drove him back to his dorm and got him settled in with some water and stuff. while driving he threw up all over my girlfriends car so this morning i had to clean all of it up. anyways my night consisted of taken blows to the ear and helping out random drunk kids. all in all an eventful evening. and i feel good about helping the drunk kid get home safe. for all we know he could have been stuck outside in the 20 degree weather.
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Toasty.
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at the airport on thursday, i saw a elderly lady struggling to get her suitcase off the converbelt. so i went over and took it off for her. so was so thankful. she gave me a hug. felt pretty good after that
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Mike-O
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Very nice of you, hope it turns out for the better.

Few months back, I was going to my friend's new apartment but got a little lost on the way, sidetracking about two streets for a while, when I saw this lump of clothes -looking thing on a sideroad that was quite slanted on a hill, then it moved and I realized that it was a person, so I went over to ask for help.

It was this soon-to-be-retired, probably 57-59 -year-old woman, drunk as a skunk, seemingly trying to go home from the local pub that was just around the corner, and she had fallen down. I asked if she was alright, she seemed unhurt other than scraping her hands, you know, drunks usually fall softer. Anyway, I then saw that she was in no condition to walk anywhere, and almost fell down and I could hardly keep her up on the sharp hill. I decided to call her a taxi to get her home safe, but she said "I kknoww wwhhhere I llivee, bbut I donnn't rememmber thhe address." So I decided to walk her home with a helping shoulder. She told me that she had been down for the count for at least 15 minutes, and calling for help, and there were people just passing her by, ignoring her pleads, which made me sick to hear.

In the end, her living "close-by" ended up being around 6km away, and as she was leading the way so to speak, we took some very badly lit detours through foresty backyards and little trails that were riddled with tree stumps/roots, so it was basically stumbles galore for both of us, I was lucky to be able to hold her upright the whole time, even if it took a very long time to get to our destination.

The funny thing about this, however, is that she thanked me, called me an angel and samaritan etc. but then half-way to the trip started prodding deeper, like "Which party do you vote for?" or "Why did you help me, I don't deserve it, do I, you're pretty stupid, you know?" and stating things like "You must be a hippie and drive a bike in the night without lights on" and "You probably buy Fair Trade coffee and contribute nothing to society", which were confusing the hell about me.

Basically, she was overtly happy that someone took their time to help her home safely, but at the same time calling me names and ridiculing me for doing that exact thing. Got her to her door, and she lived in the fourth floor in an house with no elevator, when she suddenly tried to... seduce me? Asking me to come in for some red wine and fun to really "thank me", hugging me tighter. I declined, told her Good Night and dodged a grannyish kiss on the mouth just barely. But still, I helped someone in need, no matter what her response.

Moral of the story: Help people in need, but prepare to be ridiculed for it by the helpee.


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Good_Deed
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I had sex with my gf
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Blurst
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beat me to it
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Lé.Skiing
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10/10 K for you  that was a great story.

Reminds me of about a month ago I was walking to the liquor store after work one night and thought I heard something in a dumpster and was like thinking I was just bum rummaging through it. As I was Walking back hear the same noises go to this van that had just been there turns out there's a guy that had been stuck in the back of this van for like an hour because he was clearing it out and it closed behind him when he went inside.  There was no way for him to open the door from inside the back of the van.  the guy did thank me but at the same time wondered why the hell I walked past him in the first place.  I honestly at first thought maybe it was like a bum rummaging through this dumpster right next to the van.  then thought really nothing of it never seen the guy in the back of the van.  The guy was hoping he wasn't gonna get in shit from work for disappearing for like an hour.  I told him to give them shit for having a work van that if you get locked on the inside of it there's no way to get out...  It's kind of a safety hazard...
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theline
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interesting. i also had sex with your girlfriend.
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.Jacob
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found someones phone at a ski hill and managed to return it (camp fortune) he was also on NS but I didn't ask him about it, reveal yourself.
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Mike-O
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That sounds good of you to have gone back and checked it again.
I know it's understandable to live in a bustling area and you kinda learn (or maybe adapt) to shut some of the noise out, otherwise you'd go insance from the constant sensory overload of tastes, touches, smells and faces all around you.

Reminds me of when I was walking with my friend to his place from the store and we were coming up to a bus stop on the road. Even from afar we saw that there was someone lying down benetah the bus shelter, looked like he was passed/knocked out. When we rushed to the stop, there was an older lady sitting on the bench, calmly. We asked what's going on here and if there's anything we can do to help. She told us it was his adult, retarded son who had had an epileptic seizure, and that everything was going to be okay, no worries.

While she told us this, she was teary-eyed, and we still hung around for a minute just zoning the situation that if there was anything we can do to help, we're here. Then the once-again fucked up thing happened. He started convulsing a bit, and her mother kneeled and held him still, trying to keep him in the... I don't know the English word, but "Safe Position", where you lay people on their sides if they're unconscious. We kneeled down to help her, and when this happened, people walked by, and a bus stopped there. Literally, 15-20 people walked by, just looking at what's going on for a splitsecond and ignoring it. Me and my friend actually asked a few guys if they could help like "Hey, hey dude, can you help us a..." and they were gone, put on their headphones and IDGAF faces and strolled away.

We ended up waiting for about 15 minutes until the guy woke up, stirred as hell, and called her an invalid taxi. But fuck those people made me so FURIOUS.



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Mike-O
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And sorry, looks like it's quick typo central for me today..
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Lé.Skiing
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yah good semaritan's are hard to come by now a days. 
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Good_Deed
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Click for larger imageyou in?
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quixotic
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it's cause everybody is afraid that they'll get sued for trying to help. It's fucked.

two days ago I was up real early and had to go to the post office. There are a bunch of stairs leading up to it and I saw a man with a package and cain struggling to get up. I grabbed the package and held his hand up the stairs. felt real good.
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theline
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as long as there's no eye contact
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Mike-O
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Is this really an issue over there, probability of getting sued? I know it's an issue in China, or the fact that you could fuck possibly yourself over to one's medical bills and become hated if you happen to help a person in need.


My friend was telling me about when he went to a movie theater a few years back, and it's a multi-story complex, yet for some reason, there was a slightly retarded person in a wheelchair with speech issues, who clearly wanted to take the stairs up to the second floor, and my buddy felt like "what the hell, why not" and then STRUGGLED to get the guy up the long stairs, with no middle landing - carrying, shuffling and heaving a wheelchair-bound dude up the steps (around 50 steps), combined weight must have been quite a lot.

He just said that when he began helping that guy up the first steps, he realized that there was, you know, actual elevators in the place and that the guy probably just didn't understand that... When he got him up the stairs, out of breath and sweating, the guy had just looked at him like "Why did you do this?" and rolled away, haha.

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Masta_Baka
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this reminds of a time i was driving home from school one day last year. i was stopped at a stop light and once the light turned green a pedestrian started walking across the street parallel with me. She took a few steps and started to stumble. so instead of going i waited to see if she was okay. After she took a few more steps she went unconscious and fell right in the middle of the road smashing her head into the ground. i pulled over my car and rushed to her aide. As i was approaching she started regaining consciousness and was a little bloody and shaken up. I helped her to the side of the road and sat her down while two older ladies got out of their car to help.

The girl had no idea who she was or why she was there and began to fight everyone around her so i had to hold her arms. and protect her from attacking the elderly women with me. Meanwhile why all this is happening on a busy street we had a few pedestrians and many cars driving by without a single person stopping.

Finally the cops and paramedics showed up and took over. To this day i still do not know who the lady is or what even happend to her on the street. She didnt seem drunk so im assuming it was some sort of seizure. It was honestly a very scary moment but it feels so good to help people and be okay without any recognition from anyone,
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Mike-O
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Well done man, must have been a bit of a shock when she started rowdying around.
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apimpnamedslick
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yall gotta start using tldr
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.AR6rider.
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No. Learn to read. It's not difficult.
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apimpnamedslick
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well when I scroll down the page getting hammered by walls of text, it turns me off
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Mike-O
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When I see an alias it turns me off, too.
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apimpnamedslick
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when I witness ignorance, it turns me off
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yuck
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told clyde-frog how to get to good urbans in barrie
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Chickendodo
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Some chick left her water bottle in class one day, so I chased after her to give it back... all she says is "oh... thanks. I always forget it." and turned around and walked away. In a dead monotone like she didn't even give a fuck. Last time I help you out, bitch.

As to trying to help people out who have shitty home lives, my brother's "friend" got kicked out of his house 'bout 7 years ago, so my brother and parents being the nice people they are, let him stay with us for a while to get his shit together and whatnot. So a few days go by, and my dad is going downstairs to get some water at like one in the morning, sees this little shit with his hand in my mom's purse, stealing money. My dad almost beat the shit out of this kid, threw him out of our house, and he's been in and out of prison since. Kid is fucking scum. Steals from his grandparents, his friends; some people are just fucked and can't be helped, no matter how much you try.
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Lé.Skiing
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some people are but, not everyone is like that.   Sometimes you gotta just try and weed some people out as you can kinda tell what type of person they are at some point.  Sometimes you cant just let one bad apple to ruin the bunch you just toss that one away.  I have known some people that make me think man there really is no hope for humanity.  I swear sometimes that we should really start to have people get whats coming to them.  and usually they do.   why suffer the bad karma of someone else's carelessness.  who knows that person may be going through a tough time but try to cover it up by acting like something they truly may not be...  sometimes some people are just fucked in the head due to a chemical imbalance in their brain.  anyways digging everyone's stories so far.  not sure if some people really get the theme of this thread though...  its about posting something that you have done to help someone else whilst putting yourself aside. 
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Mike-O
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Wait a minute, you said she thanked you. Why call her a bitch. What should she have done to you for returning a simple water bottle?
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collinder
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I helped an old man jump start his truck the other day. He insisted on giving me $10
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Shukovski
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Sort of had the same a couple of months ago.
Only it was in Moscow and it was an Mercedes S 65 AMG with some rich Russian inside, parked in front of Louis Vuitton,
His car wouldn't start, I helped him because I always have some jump leads in my Range Rover.
When the Mercedes worked again he insisted on me giving him my address.
I did.

Next day some guy delivered two bottles of 1994 Chateau Lafite Rothschild and an invite to a party.
He liked me because I came to his aid which according to him was a rare thing these days.

All I did was jumpstart his car something, I wouldn't even want a reward for something so futile.
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no_steeze
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i was getting gas and a guy pulled up saying he'd left his wallet at work and he had a sick kid in his car and needed some money to make it home. after i clarified that it wasn't a scam and talking to the kid for a bit i helped them get home. turns out the guy worked at a ski mountain

so i either helped a guy or donated money to a kid with tremendous acting skills
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corona
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that's kinda awkward that the guy in blue has a hard on
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Mike-O
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Mad cool of the guy to go through the trouble of giving you a bone for the help, shows that a little hand may go a long way.
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Chickendodo
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Cause she didn't seem grateful at all for the nice thing I did. There's a difference between thanking someone and saying "oh, thanks." Least she coulda done was s my d.
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Mike-O
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Yeah, sure, whatever you say.

It's not like this thread is about doing nice things for other people, you know, being helpful without expecting anything in return.
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Panda_with_Guns
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i gave a girl a chocolate rose today cause she didmt have any money to get one her self. also the pat couple of days ive been an outlet for a friend that has been going through some things
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.Blake.
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Bought a homeless man a burrito at chipotle and sat and talked with him while we ate. Cool experience.
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EastCoast.
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Everytime I help someone I just feel really good and usually karma plays a good role. Always lookin to help others.
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cheener12
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I shared tic tacs with everyone on my ski team!
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Lé.Skiing
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 for everyone that has been contributing to this thread with awesome stories thanks its awesome to see this kind of positive action taking.  It's awesome to hear about people that have either done something nice for you or you have done something nice for others.   I Just remembered that on Halloween me and my brother went through a haunted house and there were three girls all super scared and I was the one guy they were all grabbing on to to lead them the way, you know being a man about everything (:P).  It was funny cause through out the whole time I was just laughing the whole time.  After it was all said and done we went our separate ways.  I never gave them my number they thanked me for being the guide so I was just glad to help.  Not going to lie would have been nice to have been either given a number or given one of the hotter ones out of the munch but whatever no big deal.  It was more about just being the guy to kinda soften the blow of every scary thing by the sound of laughter.  Was pretty funny how scared they were though.  I remember there was one part during the haunted house thing that they were so scared cause it was really dark and they were like GO!, Just keep going.  I was like I would like to but there is a wall here.  Apparently I was a pretty bad haunted house guide.. lol  hope that story kinda gave you guys a good laugh or so.  Keep up the positive stories.
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Relish_man
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My military buddies and I pushed a buss out of a snowbank. Twice.
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Mr.Luke
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Helped my friend deal with someone she's close to getting taken Child Protective Services

Helped her through her breakup

Check up on her every day to make sure she's alright

Listen and help her through traumatizing childhood experience she had long time ago

Listen to her family problems and try to comfort her





But i'm still a shitty person. Hopefully karma will balance out
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Lé.Skiing
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I gave you 10/10 I wouldn't say you're a shitty person man.  sometimes we all do things that may be interpreted as shitty from others but at the same time if you can do this for someone else it's not a bad thing.  everyone has a side thats good.  it's all how often it shows and when it does its usually when it counts most.  thumbs up for helping out someone like that though.  I have tried with one of my exes soo many times I have honestly lost all hope for her.  I try to help her out and try talking to her about some shit but she just tells me "you're not my parent!"  all I am doing is saying to her that some of her friends aren't her friends cause they steal from her.  or always get her into hard drugs...  She just has the I dont give a shit what you think about me attitude and the I don't need to listen to you mentality.  its frustrating talking to her sometimes...  On the plus side I have learned how to deal with people like that... you don't.  works soo much better having to not hear about people who complain but don't want to make the effort to change anything...  Sorry everyone if it sounded like a rant. 
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iSmokeweed
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so this kid was like "naw man i dont toke weed" and i was "you do now" so now hes a pothead.
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blackmamba.
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held the door open for people. nothing really groundbreaking
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PartyHon
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in the movie theater last week and a guy from the national guard was in line behind me. so when buying my ticket i said "i got his too." didnt even give it a second thought. didnt need any recognition

there is a kid at my school who gets picked on alot. for years ive kinda just looked away. lately ive got to know him and he is pretty cool just one of those "dont judge a book by its cover" sorta deal. last semester i was walking down the hallway with a couple of friends to see him getting harassed by these d bags. i was about to keep walking when one of the douches throughs the kid into a locker. i say to myself "thats enough" and stepped into the group. i said something like" guys leave him alone." one of the fags look at me and promptly tells me to fuck off. im like bitch please and shoved him into a locker and said "how do you like that? now gtfo" he changed his mind and his group left the scene as recommended. after i helped the kid up and was on my mary way

yes i know cool story bro
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hot.pocket
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I gave some girl a free beer tonight...#winning.
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Lé.Skiing
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naw man 10/10 good job you may have just prevented the kid from completely losing it.  all it takes is one dude to stand up for the kid.
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seward
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my parents have always instilled the idea in me that what goes around comes around.
not just in terms of revenge, but in being nice to people, doing favours, etc etc.
and lets face it, everyone on this site lives a pretty damn good life. some of us better than others, but for the most part, it could be ALOT worse.

the amount of times ive got a hug or a kiss on the cheek from old ladies for helping them with doors or heavy things or whatever is endless. old chicks love me.

this summer, a squeegy kid cleaned the windows on my car and i had zeroooo change. nothing to give him at all. i felt awful. so im rifleing around in the glove box and find my roach tin. there was only three in there but i asked him if he wanted them and his eyes LIT up. i can pretty much guarantee that kid had a wicked afternoon.

all through university there was this homeless guy that chilled in one of the parking lots. i used to give him some food from my lunch and he would save me a spot each morning. He said his name was Fred, one thing i know forsure, Fred lovvvvvved pickles. and i loved closer to the school parking spots, exspecially in winter. it was win win for both of us.

its actually quite sad to see the looks of peoples shocked faces when you smile at them. Be nice to people, people. It goes a long way.

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Mike-O
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What's a roach tin by the way, Google came up flat.
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bananas
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saw some lady stuck in an icey hill, i pushed so she could get out.
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Heinzler
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i bought me and 3 friends coffee this morning from the starbucks in beaver creek. let me remind you that the beaver creek starbucks is the second most expensive in the nation
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