"Good deed" give-a-way take II (Reznik572 inspired)

Today I dropped off a pickup truck load full of building supplies to Habitat for Humanity. Feels good to help! Thanks for the give away.
 
My good deed? I inspired myright to give away a very nice knife :D

Joking aside I'm happy to see the post, thank you for the give away.
 
I'm down in SC at the moment making my dad's house easier for him to live in. He's getting old (truthfully he's gotten old, happens to all of us so I've heard) and can't move around too well anymore. Installing rails at strategic locations on the walls and shower, taking the carpet out and replacing it with hardwood so he can use his nifty walker/roller thingie, made him a pretty sweet bamboo walking staff with a plastic vial flask in it for his scotch (will post pics sometime), and installed a detachable shower head. He doesn't want to go to a nursing home, so I'm doing what I can to keep him out of one. Also gave him my little .410 to dissuade any evildoers who might want to take advantage of his weakened state.

ETA: As with last years contest, don't consider this as an entry. I have one of these already, so another forumite should have a chance at one.
 
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Carolina River Rat said:
I'm down in SC at the moment making my dad's house easier for him to live in. He's getting old (truthfully he's gotten old, happens to all of us so I've heard) and can't move around too well anymore. Installing rails at strategic locations on the walls and shower, taking the carpet out and replacing it with hardwood so he can use his nifty walker/roller thingie, made him a pretty sweet bamboo walking staff with a plastic vial flask in it for his scotch (will post pics sometime), and installed a detachable shower head. He doesn't want to go to a nursing home, so I'm doing what I can to keep him out of one. Also gave him my little .410 to dissuade any evildoers who might want to take advantage of his weakened state.

ETA: As with last years contest, don't consider this as an entry. I have one of these already, so another forumite should have a chance at one.
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I did the same thing for my Grandmother a few years ago. It's truly sad to see your loved ones get older but the smile on their face is priceless when they are able to get around because of a few hours of work you put in.

Nice work, brother. I hope all the best to your father.
 
i was with my godson at this kids play gym thing for a class mates birthday today, and while they were playing a little girl sitting with her dad a little further down had a petit mal seizure, i have some first aid training so i helped out till the paramedics came.
 
I'm not going to enter my own contest :) but last night I stopped and gave a homeless Gulf War vet some food at a stop light. He was a Navy vet and VERY surprised to see someone roll down their window.
 
A couple of weeks ago, I helped a guy out with his dead car battery. He had been walking his two black labs at one of the local remote trails, several miles away from civilization. He had been trying for nearly an hour to use his cellphone, but the area gets terrible signal reception. It was sheer luck that I showed up to hike there and after a successful battery jump, he was on his merry way back home.
 
SAR with civi's and military are the bulk of what I do. Mind you I love it, and don't really think its anything great, but I've allways felt I should do it.

that said, I helped a young women of a ditch a couple weeks ago, then 20 minutes later my wife went in the ditch, and an old couple towed her out, what goes around comes around eh?
 
There is a guy who lives down the street from me in low income housing. Im not exactally sure what all is wrong with him but he has some problems. Including that he is mostly blind and rides a bike. In the recent snow he wasnt able to ride his bike. So I gave him a ride and have been for the last few weeks. Also airing up his low tires for him, really felt good. When he thanked me it sounded so genuine like no one had ever helped him before. Thanks for the great chance- Joel
 
Very interesting idea :thumbup:

I returned a lady's purse two weeks ago; she forgotten it in a meeting room where I work. Her cell phone was peeking out so I could easily identify her. When we met downstairs, she was very happy! She was shocked, though, when I joked and said I just kept the money...not knowing me, she didn't find it funny :o. Nonetheless, I felt good about the thing.

Thanks for the giveaway!
 
there was a beer truck turnd over the gardrail and i got out and used a ka bar to pull a k/o guy and the engin was on fire, we all know what would have happend if i didnt come along when i did.
 
duckkiller462 said:
there was a beer truck turnd over the gardrail and i got out and used a ka bar to pull a k/o guy and the engin was on fire, we all know what would have happend if i didnt come along when i did.
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I love the username! Good work getting the beer fella outta there :)

Did you get any beer for it?
 
Well, i was camping at Pismo Beach California off the 101 with my wonderful family and friends. As many of you may know the beach during off season has UN predictable weather. For this reason, our neighbors, was a young couple with an elderly senior citizen that had a wheel chair specifically built for beach/ sand. I was watching my neighbors at aww that they are such good people to take that elderly person out to the beach even though he was handicapped. Later, this is where the weather turned bad, the ominous clouds came in, it started to rain! I watched the young couple race to push the elderly man up in their truck. They struggled since it was raining and also factoring in sand is hard enough to walk in! I helped them out! They said thanks and gave appreciation later on, they 'tried' driving but there Ford got stuck in the sand! Apparently, it was a 2 wheel drive model, i offered to help risking breaking my driveline/ divetrain on my old 82 Jimmy 4x4. I got them out with ease, the gentleman offered $20 dollars, i said no thanks! I cannot take someones money like that unless he pointed a knife at me. In the end, that was my good deed.

I also have a very sad case with a horrible ending. I tell close friends this event that i know personally. It is a phone call no one wants to answer to. To illustrate, i was going to a wedding up north, i received a phone call from my friend that her sister was killed in a automobile accident, she was a friend of mine also. Evidence showed that a drunk driver went on a ' off ramp' thinking it was the 'on ramp' collided head on vehicles, my friend died instantly. This was a sad event nevertheless, i gave my support to the family and my friend who loss his sister. My duty/ deed came in when the judiciary system came into picture. I went to every judiciary process with the family, the arraignment,pre- lim, 2nd arraignment, motions and hearing, and during the sentencing I stood up and spoke my impact statement to the judge, summing up that my 19 year- old friend who was killed will never be back with us in earth ever. In the end, i was there for my friend whom i loss, and support to my friend who loss her sister. Until this day, she will always be missed, please never let a person you know drive under the influence, vehicles may be 2-3-4-5 ton missiles.
On the side note, if i do not win that is fine with me, i want to get the message out that people have the mentality that "Things won't happen to me," or "It won't happen to me." My response is you never know in life, please be cautious and help others, make friends not enemies. You never know when is the last time you will see your loved ones.
 
not really something i consider a "good deed" but just being part of my neighborhood. i own a bicycle shop and i live in a inner city working class neighborhood.
many of the 30+ kids who live on my block did not have bikes, so my biz partner and i fixed up 26 kids bikes of different sizes and descriptions. got em all running good.
one saturday afternoon, i drug the grill from the back yard to the front, cooked about 60 burgers, had a cooler of water and soda for the kids, and beer for the parents.
gave away every single one of those bikes. shared food with lots of my neighbors, many of whom brought something too. it was an amazing day, watching all those kids whizz up n down the block on their bikes.
those kids are still riding mostly, tho you know how kids are.
so been teaching some to do basic repairs, fix flats, put chains back on etc.
have a box on the front porch with tires(kids are always skidding and tearing holes in tires...)tubes, patch kits, a cupla seats, a cupla different sizes of replacement wheels etc. the kids know they can come over and get what they need. picked up a few basic floor pumps really cheap and gave em to several of the older kids. one boy across the street is pretty good at fixing bikes so i gave him some other basic tools. told him they were his responsibility and i wasnt gonna replace em if they got lost. he still has em and makes sure they are put away after he uses them. and they often need my help on some repairs they cant figure out but several of em really wanna do it themselves.
but to be very real. this is not something one human can do alone. and i didnt have to. all those bikes were dropped off at the shop over time, in various states of disrepair. dumped there instead of the landfill at least. my biz partner also worked on getting them running right. another friend helped me haul em to my neighborhood and stack em in my backyard. another friend yet, translated my invite to every house on the block into spanish so my hispanic neighbors knew what was going on. and other neighbors brought food even tho i didnt ask anyone to. life is good aye?
 
I took a couple hikes this past year and am planning more soon with my 6 year old son. We went along a local trail and picked up any trash we seen and used it to start a fire. It was rewarding to practice firemaking and make use our others mistakes.
 
i was at mcdonalds the other day sitting in the drive threw a few cars back from ordering. i am always watching as its in a bad area and i see this guy screaming at a girl. so i am watching and watching and she is bawling. he then pushes her and she starts walking off. she then walks up to my truck and asks if you she can have a couple dollars to get the starter on their car fixed. she seemed genuine but around that area you got to watch out for the scams. so i am getting ready to give her some money when her man starts yelling again. she turns and walks away. and he runs up screaming at her about talking to "other guys lol which was me this time". so the line moves and i pull up closer to the menu/order. i am still watching in my rear view mirror and i see him push her again and cock his hand back to hit her. i put the truck in park (now mind you this was a big boy lol and i am not small) and got out and said i wouldn't do that if i was you. and he proceeded to go crazy screaming at me to mind as he said it my own bidnezz (business i think lol). so he lets go of the girl and starts walking over to me. i am not to nervous cause i been fighting most my life and can handle myself pretty well. he gets up close screaming (and he had a whole mouth full of golds but can't keep his car running :) ) how he is gonna do this and that to me if i didn't get in my truck. i said sir i don't want any problems but i am not gonna stand around and watch a big guy like you beat up a little girl like that. i said so just walk away leave her alone and we can all go on about our day. well the girl is scared for me now saying i don't know him and he is very violent and is gonna hurt me ect.... i said ma'am go on inside mcdonalds and hang out there he won't follow you in and make a scene cause the police will get called and at this point he tries to sucker punch me fortunately he swung pretty slow so i moved out the way and gave him a quick chop to the throat and watched him hit his knee's trying to figure out how to breathe.

now here is the kicker. the girl gets mad at me and smacks me dead in the face for hurting her man. she busted my lip now wtf is that all about. i was like you have got to be kidding me honey he was about to beat your ass and i help you and then you hit me for it?? i got back in the truck and ordered my mcdonald's sweet tea and rolled out

Now lol i am not sure if this counts as a good deed or not but it started out that way.
if it doesn't get me in the contest no worries i understand

either way thanks for the contest everyone around here seems pretty generous and cool i am glad i found this sub forum.
 
Grunt soldier - I think you did the right thing. That's always a sticky situation to put yourself in. You end up helping the girl and get charges pressed on you by him with her support because she "loves" him sooo much. I've seen it happen in my military days. It really is a shame.

Good on ya for standing up for what you believe in!
 
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