Good Deeds Thread

[jonny69]

Feel good thread - post your shite good deeds here and hopefully the karma fairy will have a read and pay you back one day. Ok, will she bollocks, but it's a good excuse to wave your wang about and revel in how amazing you think you are.

 

I helped a bloke on the way home tonight in a tatty blue F reg Landy. Conked out on a fairly busy roundabout and the Surrey dickheads were out in force beeping and dramatic swerving despite being able to see what was going on. I pulled in front and got stuck in while he tried to get the AA. Turned over but wouldn't fire. V8 with leccy ignition so it wasn't points closed up. Spotted that the vacuum advance pipe was gone, but spotted it had dropped into the V. Fished it out. Completely perished ends, hence it had fallen off. Snipped the ends off and refitted it, it fired up and our man was on his way. Still hadn't got through to the AA either.

[Andrew353w]

I changed a wheel for a "damsel in distress" in Barnet High Street yesterday. It took me about 10 minutes & she bought me a coffee & a piece of cake! Seemed a fair swap!

[Junkman]

^^

This post is totally useless without a pic of said damsel.

[Andrew353w]

If I see that 52 reg Suzuki in the street I'll try... but I may be misinterpreted....

[Mr A Lawrence]

We stopped to attend to a guy that had collapsed in the street and was having a fit.

 

Tended to him till the paramedics arrived.

 

 

 

I win. 😀

[Squire_Dawson]

If I see nails and screws in the road, I usually pick them up to prevent punctures.

 

Perhaps I should save these, put them under the wheels of dolly birds cars so I can change their wheel and have cake and coffee.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Good deed recipient:  Some months ago, was rescued when conked out in a dangerous spot by a roundabout in a Lancia.  Lots of gits honking and gesticulating, none helped me push.  Off duty police woman stopped, got car to safe place, took me to garage to buy coolant (car has spaffed fluids).    Refused to accept bottle of wine proferred.  Was lovely.  

 

Whenever I see someone pushing a car I stop to help.  All the dicks yell and honk.  Don't they realise that their oh so important journey will proceed faster if they help clear the obstruction?  

[Lankytim]

I pulled over to help a young girl who had broken down on a dual carriageway and was treated like a rapist. 

[purplebargeken]

Really? That is a sad reflection on society. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Gave tow rope to bloke who had come out in his Rover to help his son who had broken down in an old Honda.  

[Pillock]

I once conked out on the way into Nottingham, in rush hour, in a place that meant nobody could get by. Asked guy in car behind for a help pushing it up onto the kerb - he just beeped his horn. Asked the guy behind him, he shook his head and went back to looking at his phone. Had to go three cars back before someone would, basically, clear the road and get on their way.

 

I have no idea how beeping at an obstruction helps move it. I don't entirely understand physics, but I got a B at GCSE and I don't think we got as far as sound waves from a car horn shifting a tonne of metal.

[RayMK]

Many, many years ago when Ted Heath was pm and we had a national 50mph speed limit, I was pulled over by a cop car for doing 54mph.  My car was a Reliant Regal 3-25 saloon.  The copcar was full of cops on the way to a conference.  As I fumbled through pocket after pocket trying to find my documents, one of the passenger cops got out to see what was delaying his colleague.  He looked at me, had a quiet word with said colleague, I was told to go on my way at <50mph and nothing more would be said.  The reason?  A couple of days before, I was out cycling and stopped to assist an elderly chap change a wheel on his Humber.  His jack had collapsed, having pushed through the rusty bodywork.  I cycled home to get my scissor jack (I was near home) and returned in my Reliant.  A cop was there now.  I jacked under the axle and assisted with the wheel change and the very thankful driver went on his way.  The aforementioned cop who had the quiet word was that same cop. 

 

I have not performed a good deed since those days, such is my mistrust of strangers. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

There's something in this karma bollocks, you know.

2012 Christmas Eve,last minute shopping,lots of snow. Pulled into carpark space and there's a giffer couple in a Kia stuck ,nose in, trying to reverse out ,lots of spinning wheels and flying snow.

I pushed the thing and still really struggled to get them out, I even fell over facedown,much to the amusement of onlookers. Eventually they got out and drove off, that's when I realised why it had been so hard to push, the stupid Old Giffer had still got his handbrake on ! Drove down the road with back wheels locked up.

Anyway,did shopping came out to car, then heard my phone ringing, it was in the snow under the front wheel of the car that had pulled into the space. I dug it out, completely fucked, front back screens and internal screen.

Went to Apple shop , they ummed and ahhed, pronounced it beyond repair- gutted. The girl asked how I'd broken it, I explained, she spoke to supervisor, he came over and said. "We can't have you suffering after doing a good deed on Christmas Eve" reached in a drawer and gave me a brand new phone!

To say I was surprised is an understatement , good customer service or karma?

[purplebargeken]

I didn't kill anyone in Tesco today. Not actually sure if that counts as a good deed or not to be honest.

[yellowperil]

I had a bloke double back on a dual carriageway to see if i was ok when i blew a borrowed Triton up a couple of years ago.

 

He had seen me on the side of the road a couple of hours before and i was still there when he came back on the other side, so he took the next exit and came back.

 

An absolute star, my phone was dead and i didn't want to leave the bike to long.

 

I generally try to help if people need it, karma paid me back that time.

 

Also had a Gentleman bring a cold drink out to us today when we were loading bins in the heat, that was really appreciated.

[xtriple]

Does lending a lady your debit card (and PIN) so she can go and buy a new tyre count? I'd already blown the flat one up for her so, two for one?

[stripped fred]

There was a long tailback a few months ago. After about 20 mins we crawled to a Saab 9-5 blocking the road with the woman standing on the footpath. I pulled in and she said it had just cut out. I tried to get in to release the handbrake and the seat was all the way forward with no release handle underneath. She said it had broken so her garage had fixed it in this position (she had very short legs). I managed to eventually get my legs in but it was a tight squeeze. Then the handbrake wouldn't release. Eventually got it released and I was struggling to push it onto the path. At this point I got out and gestured to a couple of blokes in cars sat there watching to come and help which they did and it was sorted. I just don't understand why people are so reluctant to help. They would if it was their own wife or mum! How long had she been standing there with the car blocking traffic? About an hour she said.

[Bren]

Advised Danthecapriman to put a V4 in his mercury.

[Bren]

Looked after my mother in laws granada since 1993.

 

She has only ever had to buy the parts.

[danthecapriman]

Advised Danthecapriman to put a V4 in his mercury.

I hope karma comes back to you for that one!!

[KruJoe]

Pillock, wasn't it you who went out late one night to rescue Phil_busmo in that horrible red Princess?

 

I've stopped a few times to assist people change flats etc, but I reluctant to help with jump-starts of anything modern, due to fear of frying ECU's.

 

Oh, one time I was loading the shopping at Morrison's near the far end of the car park, and an old boy came tottering up with his sticks and bag of groceries. He seemed a bit worried looking at his parked CRV (early one in doom blue, automatic). I asked him what was troubling him - he couldn't get in, or even squeeze down the driver's side to the door, because someone had parked in the space next to him. I offered to move it out for him, so he handed me the keys and I did the deed. I could have just burned off in it

I said to him he could probably get a blue badge to park in a wide space if he talked to his GP, but he said he wanted to save his doc the bother, and he's usually ok if he parks far enough away from the shops.

Bless.

 

Loads of times in town, I notified folk of their open filler flaps, or nearly flat tyres. One mother and daughter pair in a 307 were just fueling up in Skipton, about to set off for Southampton with a back tyre at 3psi! I took them to the air point, stuck 30psi in it, then sent them off with directions to the local tame tyre place for my man to inspect it properly and fix it if necessary. 

They could have made a right old mess on the M6 if I hadn't seen that. 

[I_am_Diesel]

A few times I have knocked on peoples doors to inform them that they have left the side lights on their cars. Even had to do it for the same bloke twice.

[cort1977]

On a recent trip to the old country I helped push some kind of modern Nissan that had dropped it's transmission fluid all over the road.   Driver was very grateful and celebrated by starting the engine and trying to drive off.   Not sure what the Romanian for 'it's fucked' is but I used some sign language.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I conked out going up a hill in Hampstead.  Clutch pedal link sheared.   No one helped me, until a flash dude came out of his house.  I was blocking his driveway where he had his new Lambo parked.  I assumed that he would be grumpy at me.   Far from it.  He helped me push my heap onto his drive, told me I could keep it there overnight, and that it would be covered by his CCTV in

 case of any naughtiness by Jim the Crim.   Decent geezer.

[Jon]

I was cycling into town a short while before starting my postie collection a few years back when a LWB Renault Master had broken down in a queue of traffic. With it being a built up area and narrow streets, he was totally blocking the road and no-one could get past, yet people stayed put (even the ones at the bus stop who'd also be going nowhere), so I parked up the bike and gave the fella a push, summoning the taxi driver sat behind the van to give me a hand. Fortunately, my bike wasn't pinched but then I buggered it up for myself by pushing him to the nearest spot available, filling the tiny car park right outside the library beside my first collection point which I'd be picking up from shortly afterwards. Skills.

 

As with Lanky Tim, I offered to help a damsel in distress with a flat on the Leeds inner ring road, who seemed to think I was pretty dubious and refused my gracious offer. Should've sent my wife to have a word with her I suppose, as I had a trolley jack in the boot, so it wouldn't have taken long. WOMEN.

[oldcars]

I towed my neighbours sons corsa c off the motorway for him last year. Used a tow rope. First and last time i will ever do that.

[2MB]

Helped an African family change the wheel on an a class merc, as they drove into the petrol station I was filling up at on a flat tyre. They said they weren't far from the garage that was going to change the wheel, but I refused to let them drive any further (it was an nsl dual carriageway) until I had put the spare on.

Also helped two African mechanics move a merc c class that had died at the end of my street and blocked the main road. I wanted to tow it with my 205 d turbo and newly bought rope, but it was an automatic so we just shoved it to the side of the road. That was an example of how people will sit and watch people struggle to move the obstruction rather than do anything to help; I was about 15 cars behind in the queue.

There was also a time when a very pretty girl was stranded in Morrisons car park in a 370Z that had refused to start next to my 205. All I did then was hold the parking space until her mam turned up with the booster pack, which isn't an interesting outcome but otherwise ypuay have thought me to refuse to help anyone but black people in Mercedes, and that's racist

[beko1987]

I went out to see if I could help one of our neighbors non starting 57 plate dizzler golf in december. Plugged my obd reader in, which came up with some fuel pump issue, so I helped him bump start it and off he went. Must have only happened as it was bastard cold as it never did it again. A few days later (new years eve) when I was stripping the ZX out trying to find out why the rear footwells were full of water he wanders over with a box of chocolate seashells and said thanks for your help the other day.

 

SWMBO is alergic to nuts and they were the praline ones, so I ate them all later that night, very nice they were too!

 

I nearly pushed an old giffer in a dead polo out the way wednesday morning who was blocking the road, but an AA van pulled up to him as I took my seatbelt off so left him to it.

[BavarianRetro]

A few times I have knocked on peoples doors to inform them that they have left the side lights on their cars. Even had to do it for the same bloke twice.

You don't live in East Kilbride do you?

[Felly Magic]

Old Ford, aka Jack Frost helped me out today, the passenger window in Ally had come out of the regulator, and he knew someone who could sort it for me, the place next door to where he works, I'd already taken off the door card, they sorted the rest for 'breakfast money'. They took the glass out, removed the old adhesive for the brackets, put proper windscreen snot on, and refitted and cleaned the glass. Top job to those guys, and thanks once again to John