Karma will get you, my pretty!

[Ljt09863]

so, it wasn't a customer, but it was still a really sucky person!

every wednesday at work, we have floor crew to come and clean our floors. they usually take forever, but we told them last night, we were going to the movies, and they needed to hurry up so we could get out on time. they actually listened and we got out late, but at a reasonable time! Yay! but as me and my manager are leaving(we were meeting another coworker for the movies) we saw a guy was pulling out of the parking lot at the american legion, and ran over a pile of snow....and was stuck.

first, we got my coworkers car from the parking lot across the street and pulled up behind him. then we got out, and i offered himhelp. i looked around his tires, and there was a decent amount of snow the drivers side, so i used my feet to get some out. then i went to the other side of the car...

oh my goodness that pile of snow was deep. he couldnt back over it, or go forward, so we had no choice put to dig the snow out. i had to use my hands some, cause there was too much for me to just kick it out of the way. my coworker helped some, but not too much. i then had her get her ice scraper and tried to use it like a shovel.

did i mention i had no hat or gloves on? oh, and that right now, we are experiencing horribly frigid conditions? well, for my area its frigid. our high today, is 1 degree.right now, its -8.last night when we left, i think it might have been zero degrees...(i had only expected to go from work, to car, to movies, to car, to home!)

so i finally get enough snow out from under the car, and we have him back up as much as he can, and then put it in drive, and we push him over the snow! yay us!


so he drives over it...and keeps going....and going...and doesn't stop....doesn't stick his hand ot the window or anything to say thanks or anything.

i was so irritated,. when i got back in my coworkers car, i finally felt the cold inmy hands, and they hurt really bad. it hurt to wiggle my fingers or do anything, but i did it anyways to get the blood flowin!

this guy was lucky we were even there. like i said, we were a little late for leaving work. about 15 minutes. normally, we would have already been gone. if it wasn't for floor crew, he wouldn't have had our help. also, he was lucky we weren't late for the movie, cause we might have been the type of person to leave somebody stuck so they could get to the movies on time....by the way, we saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. awesome movie! must see!


karma will get him....

[candyshopgirl]

How can someone be so uncaring? I would have said oh here let give you some money for hot chocolate/coffee. Its just one of many sad examples where our society is going.Noone cares about noone else.

[Amina516]

Thats sad. A Thank you at the very least would have been nice.

My brother got stuck in a snow pile, so me and my hubby started to try and push him out. This kid, maybe 10 years old, comes up in between us and pushes too. Now, he really didnt help much, but it was just so awesome of him, I gave him $5.

That put a on my face.

[valhar2000]

Unbeleivable. What rock do people like this crawl under from?

[Retail Associate]

Something kind of similar happened to me on Christmas Eve.

We had a LOT of snow in December, nearly as much as we had all of last winter. It seemed I spent a very large portion of my time shoveling the driveway. The snowbanks were so high that it made it much more difficult because I had to heave each shovelful of snow over these huge banks.

I got out of work at 4:30 Christmas Eve which meant I could actually go to my family's gathering and enjoy myself. After the celebrating was over I knew I would have to go home and shovel because we'd gotten about 10 inches of snow that day and I had company coming for Christmas dinner. Didn't want them getting stuck. (Which happened to me once I pulled in)

After getting my car un-stuck I pulled it into the garage and grabbed my shovel. I hadn't been out there 5 mintes when I noticed a big ol' Caterpillar tractor with a huge plow on the front pull up across the street and stop. He sat there for a few minutes and I wondered why but didn't think too much about it and contined to shovel.

Then he pulled that monster across the street and asked, "Would you like me to do that for you?"

I was dumbfounded...and thrilled but said, "I'm afraid I have nothing to offer you."

His reply, "I"m not worried about that. Step aside."

Which I thankfully did.

I stood there with tears in my eyes and watched as he not only cleared my driveway but he also pushed those huge snowbanks further back so it would be easier to shovel.

It was dark and I wasn't able to see his face but after he finished he waved and hollered, "Merry Christmas!"

I waved back and said, "Thank-you Santa!"

That was the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me. I told everybody about it and called it my Christmas miracle!

[XCashier]

That was the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for me. I told everybody about it and called it my Christmas miracle!

What a wonderful story. God bless that kind man! Angels do walk among us.

[bainsidhe]

Was the guy worried he wouldn't get started again if he stopped to say thanks? Yeah, that sucked.

And now for the nice. The first year my sis and I were in college, we shared a car. We went to uni about an hour away, so we were returning to school after spending Christmas with the family. We were turning into the lane which would take us onto the interstate, hit a patch of black ice, and continued smoothly into the ditch. Imagine a huge, 1972 wagon sticking end-up out of a ditch, with the front end completely stuck in snow and one back tire spinning off the ground. While we waited for our dad, cold and shivering, a huge tow rig (seriously, this guy normally handles semi-trucks) pulled up and asked if he could help us out. We explained we couldn't pay him, he shrugged and said he'd take care of us. He pulled us right out, wished us a Merry Christmas, and went on his way. No idea who this guy was or anything, but I hope karma treats him very well.

[Dips]

December 13, 2007 one of our neighbors who runs a plow business had a sudden urge to plow out our driveway for us and simply did it without being asked. No charge.

I won't get into details of what that act of kindness meant to us, but it was timely and we are extremently grateful to him.

It's very disheartening when people can't recognize an act of kindness enough to even say "thank you." It sounds like that jerk couldn't even be arsed to roll down the window to talk to you while you were doing him such a really big favor. That makes me sad.

[Aethian]

If I'm not getting home till after 6pm I usually come home to a clean drive way. My neighbor plows his drive and then turns a bit to get mine along with his. I gave him some money once and he shrugged and said if I was getting home that late I wouldn't have strength or time to shovel so why not grab it with his?

I'm going to miss them when I move.

[Jack7957]

20 years ago, the extended family traveled to Ohio through a snowstorm to see my older brother graduate from Kent State (December graduation). We're in a restaurant and while waiting for our food, I notice someone in the parking lot who can't get their car moving on the ice. Grab my coat, tell my brothers to grab theirs, we're going to help this person get going. Come back in once we finished and realize our two uncles, who are only about 10 years older than us, did not come out to help also. We harassed them the rest of the evening for not being out their and being nice right before Christmas.

[Ljt09863]

Was the guy worried he wouldn't get started again if he stopped to say thanks? Yeah, that sucked.

he hsouldn't have been worried about that. it hadn't snowed much THAT day, and while the roads weren't perfect, the snow was a flat layer of packed snow. he only got stuck cause he wasn't paying attention coming out ot the parking lot, and ran over the snow drift there.

[SnarkyPie]

One of the reason I am so proud of my family is that my dad always does this. We have a pretty decent snowblower, and our neighbors across the street do not. They are perfectly able-bodied adults with shovels, but every time it snows Dad clears their driveway after he does ours. When I was home on break and offered to clear out driveway for him, he reminded me, "Do the house across the street, too, or they'll have to shovel."

I had a good upbringing