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Good thread.I love helping random people whenever possible, I dont have much but do what I can.I remember a few years back I would always see a homeless fellow digging around a dumpster in behind the store I frequent, one day I had a feeling like I should help him so I gathered the 60 or so dollars in change I had collecting in my center console and handed it to him in an empty coffee mug.Man that guy was thankful, whether it was spent on drugs, food, clothes I dont really care, it made me feel great and I know it made his day.
I have done quite a bit of things like this but have not for a while as I have lost a good bit of fath in humanity in the last year...I had a very good friend fall on some hard times and when he asked for a place to stay I did not hesitate emptying a spare room and moving him in.Four months later him and half my shit is gone while I was out of town, turns out he had quite the drug problem and it destroyed who he once was.I wish he would have asked me to help him get clean instead of doing what he did.
The next and final thing that ruined my views on people, was quite recently I was looking to sell a little 10 foot jon boat and use that toward a 12 footer.I had a younger guy and his girlfriend come by to check it out.He said it was perfect for the small lakes he fishes but would like to see it on the water to makesure everything was OK and if it was stable enough.I stated that I was going out of town in a day and do not have the time right now so we would have to go to a local lake once I return.He stated that they are moving in one week so would have to back out from the purchase if we could not figure something out.I feel foolish for admitting this but I agreed to let them take the boat and try it out at the local lake.I am pretty easy going and said to just return it along side the house the next day as I would not be home....Im sure you can guess that I got home and the boat was not there, his phone is also not in service.I did not call the police as that is not my style, I prefer to stay off that radar.Karma will get em.
d anyone to call me a moron, I am fully aware I pretty much asked for this but in my defense they really did seem like nice people.It really is a shame things like this have to happen to people trying to do good!
Read this... i feel you 100% getting burned sucks.
I helped out my one of my close buddies...
I got word that he was living out of his car. He is badly addicted to heroin, but at the time was in out-patient therapy for it. im sympathetic to that 100%
I tried not to think about it, i had a LOT of other problems going. including worrying about my sick ex-girl who had colo/rectal cancer.
well in october it started to get cold outside here in MI. i got a phone call one day, and i even thought about him prior to the call. he simply asked if he could sleep on my couch to stay out of the cold and not get sick. i understood completely and let him come over. He simply came after work and fell asleep after an hour or so, worked out okay.
However, the next morning... He wakes me up. He looks sick as hell, pouring sweat and w/d'ing hard as hell. he had to work in a few hours too. and if he lost that job it was gonna be the end of him.
My ex-girl, who was in the hopsital at that very moment, had left her BIG screen tv at my house to keep it away from her heroin addict sister.
My buddy pleaded and begged for me to ride with him to the pawn shop and get an advance and use the tv as collateral. you know what i mean.
He was going to get paid in a couple days, and i kept all the paperwork and we would just go back and get it with his money.
Well that day while he went to work... i got a call from my ex's 11 year old son. Hes such a good kid. He managed to keep it together as a mature young man and tell me that his mother had just passed away at the hospital. it fukked me up bad, i couldnt believe it. I about had a nervous breakdown, realizing that i just basically pawned that poor girl's tv while she was sitting there dying at the hospital. i seriously almost committed suicide. so messed up.
long story short... i ended up having to lie to her family for a couple days to avoid conflict while the buddy of mine got his money.
My buddy did the right thing and paid for the tv when he got his check and we got it to her son asap... i learned alot that time about karma and the like. but it sure was hard and confusing.
please dont give up helping people, sometimes its hard. however if no one did it, our world would crumble.
EDIT: sry for the long post. thx for reading if u did. sometimes it just helps to get this off my chest. i even clicked toke n' talk to talk about orange juices, ha! how the spirits guide us i suppose.
