What is the nicest thing anyone outside your family has ever done for you?
Aztrucomon brought me many miniatures for my birthday...
An anonymous benefactor on this site bought the final 3 installments of the Legacy of Fire adventure path for me when I had to suspend my subscriptions because GM downsized me two months ago.
A friend of mine gave me his car (and my first car) when he moved back to Belize. It was a 78' Dodge Diplomat with a slant six cylinder engine and candy green paint, shag carpet, and six inch gangster white walls. Man I loved that car.
My company deals with POS systems for gas stations and C-Stores, and there were Shell sites experiencing a major software bug, which my company's management deemed needed to be fixed the day they found out about it. I was coordinating my efforts with a project manager at Shell, and he found out I was working on my wedding anniversary. He sent me a $50 gift card for me and my wife to go to dinner as thanks. Of course, the same knuckleheads that insisted I get it fixed, when I should have been celebrating our anniversary, lectured me on taking money from a customer.
What is the nicest thing anyone outside your family has ever done for you?
A brave and wonderful young woman, with a few problems life had handed her, decided that she just wouldn't be able to raise another child. So she looked for other options.
...and that's how my wife and I adopted our daughter.
A few years ago, my car was stolen and the police department sent the report of its recovery to the wrong address. We didn't find out about it until three months later, when the tow truck company sent us a letter saying that unless we paid $600 to get the car out of impound, they were going to put a lien on the car.
Unfortunately, we were in the process of moving at that time, and because of that, we didn't have the money to get the car out of impound. I told this to a good friend of mine, and he loaned me the money to get the car out of impound, saying that I could pay the money back whenever I wanted, no questions asked.
When he said that, I just broke down. No one, not even my family, has ever done anything that generous for me.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, I saved every penny and paid him back two months later in full. :)
What is the nicest thing anyone outside your family has ever done for you?A brave and wonderful young woman, with a few problems life had handed her, decided that she just wouldn't be able to raise another child. So she looked for other options.
...and that's how my wife and I adopted our daughter.
That's a sweet story.
When I was a wee-pup, I wandered out of my house and down the street. An older gentleman who walked the neighborhood regularly saw me and grabbed me before I walked out into traffic. He then went down my street knocking on doors until he found my house.
What is the nicest thing anyone outside your family has ever done for you?A brave and wonderful young woman, with a few problems life had handed her, decided that she just wouldn't be able to raise another child. So she looked for other options.
...and that's how my wife and I adopted our daughter.
Great story, Welby. Actually, that's how my parents came to have my sister and I, and probably a better choice for me. (Still, they really were a lot of great minitures, Az...)
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I'd have to say it's a tie between all my dear friends who have offered to put me up, rent-free and without time-restrictions when I needed a place to live and the doctors, nurses and EMTs that have saved my life on two separate occasions (vicious dog bite to my face when I was four and a horrendous five-car pile up when I was 25).
If it weren't for those doctors, nurses & EMT's, I'd be either dead or horribly disfigured.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm always kind of amazed when people (friends or strangers) do something nice for me.
But the nicest, I think, was during my last year of high school. Shelton high had a program called "Careers in Art" where you could LEAVE SCHOOL FOR A DAY every week in order to work an internship of some sort. Steve and Dan had a studio in a repurposed factory space downtown and after meeting with me in September they took a chance and brought me in to work with them on Wednesdays. And when I say, "work with them" I meant that they would basically help me improve my work, occasionally ask me to clean up a little and teach me all kinds of useful things. I don't think I would have gotten into SVA without spending that time with them; they were even nice enough to let me come in more often during holidays and on the weekend.
My best friends family took me in after my dad kicked me out. I spent my last year of high school living with them. If they hadn't I would have droped out of school and probaly started selling crack on the street cornor to survive.
after my school's administration f****d me out of being able to walk at graduation because they didn't process my attendance waiver until the day after graduation,without telling me I wasn't going to be eligible to walk until the graduation rehearsal...my ,liaison Jayne made my principal, vice principal, guidance counselor, dean and throw me my own graduation ceremonyand give me both a refund for my cap & gown and give me my diploma personally with a formal apology. added on to it, the whole thing was filmed and was aired on my town's local tv station
My best friend gave me money for a plane ticket so I could get out of my crushing poverty in South Africa. After nine years of struggling hand to mouth, I finally had options.
When I left the military I was living at my dad's house waiting for a mortgage to go through so I could have my own house. Due to delays in loans and then the current tenant of the house refusing to move out, the purchase stretched to over a year. When word came that the seller would have to take the scumbag to court to get him out of the house, my dad told me I would have to find another place to stay.
At a loss, I was casting around for a place to crash when an casual acquaintance offered me her spare room until such time as I could move in. I gratefully accepted.
We were married a year later ... :P
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Maybe there's not a whole lot of nice going around.
I have had way too many good things occur to me from outside the family. One of the best is this.
When I realized that I had to pull the plug on my Dad, I asked two of my best friends (Mary and Brian. They are married.) if they could assist me, knowing that it would be doubtful. Well, Brian called work the next day and got the time off and they came down to where my Dad was to be there when I had to do the deed and then they assisted me with the clean up of his apartment.
~sighs~ I still miss the SOB.
Pay it forward people.
I do try. :P
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My car broke down in one of the most untraveled sections of the state of Utah. Some passerby not only stopped and let me use his cell phone to call a tow truck but he told me to keep it until I got home and that he was sure I would find a way to get it back to him. Although neither of us knew it at the time, it turned out that my minister was his brother-in-law. Call me crazy, but I do believe in miracles.
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An anonymous benefactor on this site bought the final 3 installments of the Legacy of Fire adventure path for me when I had to suspend my subscriptions because GM downsized me two months ago.
That is pretty awesome. A friend of mine bought me the entire run of Curse of the Crimson Throne, in print, for Father's Day.
Made me cookies. But, I didn't eat them, because I didn't trust that person.
