Friday OT - Dirty Deeds
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Was at this get together late during my senior year of HS. This 22ish year old woman was getting hit on hard by these out of towners. She had been dropped off. She asked me if I could give her a ride to a friends house and to help get away from these guys. I agreed. Turns out her friend lives like 6 miles out of town so when I get a mile or two out I make a left onto this blacktop and this car starts to come up behind me hard.
I pull into the yard of this friend and this car starts circling me and whipping donuts. The woman tells me it’s her Ex. The car pulls up right beside me driver to driver. She won’t talk to him so I get out (there was probably 7-8 foot between the cars).
I walk over and see a 9 MM waving around. Thought I was going to die right there. Vaguely know the dude and I gotta try to calm him down. Tell him I’m just giving her a ride to help her out and there is nothing going on between us. He talking very weird and still has the gun all over the place. Then he looks at it and says, I understand that nothings going on with you two and the gun is for me. Honestly, a small sense of relief hit me and I calmed down a little. He says he wants to talk to her. I don’t know these two very well.
So I go back to my car and tell her he’s thinking of doing himself in and she says fine. That was awkward. I go back and forth with these two a couple times. I now just want out of the situation but the woman won’t get out of my car. Finally I convince her to talk to him and she Goes to his car. I left immediately. I didn’t think he would do anything to her and he didn’t last I knew.
I pull into the yard of this friend and this car starts circling me and whipping donuts. The woman tells me it’s her Ex. The car pulls up right beside me driver to driver. She won’t talk to him so I get out (there was probably 7-8 foot between the cars).
I walk over and see a 9 MM waving around. Thought I was going to die right there. Vaguely know the dude and I gotta try to calm him down. Tell him I’m just giving her a ride to help her out and there is nothing going on between us. He talking very weird and still has the gun all over the place. Then he looks at it and says, I understand that nothings going on with you two and the gun is for me. Honestly, a small sense of relief hit me and I calmed down a little. He says he wants to talk to her. I don’t know these two very well.
So I go back to my car and tell her he’s thinking of doing himself in and she says fine. That was awkward. I go back and forth with these two a couple times. I now just want out of the situation but the woman won’t get out of my car. Finally I convince her to talk to him and she Goes to his car. I left immediately. I didn’t think he would do anything to her and he didn’t last I knew.
I coach my son's 4th grade basketball team, and the absolute, unequivocal answer to this question is "yes".
How do you tell an experienced T Ball coach from a new one? The experienced one holds the bat while they put the ball on the T.
This was probably 20 years ago because a person still existed who only carried cash.
I was behind a guy at a convenience store who was trying to buy a sandwich, a candy bar, and a fountain drink. He was $1.84 short. He kept trying to figure out if he could put the candy bar and drink back but he was also short with just the sandwich. I gave the clerk two ones and told her to put the change in the penny cup.
He wanted my name and address to pay me back, and I told him just to pay it forward to someone else. He followed me for the next five stops on my errands until the last stop, renewing the dog’s license at the police station. I am sure he thought I was reporting him for stalking or something but that really was on my agenda, had the rabies certificate in the car.
He saw me again a couple of months later at the movie theater and apologized. I told him I really was just getting the dog license and we had a good laugh. He again tried to give me the two dollars which I handed to the teenager at the concession stand and told to use for the next kid who came up short on their popcorn. He thanked me and said he just had a Hot Tamale and popcorn kid that was short 42 cents and he would use the two dollars in no time flat.
I was behind a guy at a convenience store who was trying to buy a sandwich, a candy bar, and a fountain drink. He was $1.84 short. He kept trying to figure out if he could put the candy bar and drink back but he was also short with just the sandwich. I gave the clerk two ones and told her to put the change in the penny cup.
He wanted my name and address to pay me back, and I told him just to pay it forward to someone else. He followed me for the next five stops on my errands until the last stop, renewing the dog’s license at the police station. I am sure he thought I was reporting him for stalking or something but that really was on my agenda, had the rabies certificate in the car.
He saw me again a couple of months later at the movie theater and apologized. I told him I really was just getting the dog license and we had a good laugh. He again tried to give me the two dollars which I handed to the teenager at the concession stand and told to use for the next kid who came up short on their popcorn. He thanked me and said he just had a Hot Tamale and popcorn kid that was short 42 cents and he would use the two dollars in no time flat.
I helped a lady change her tire on the interstate and, despite there being an open lane next to him, a car driving by didn't change lanes as he went by. He maybe missed me by a foot at the most.
On a separate occasion, I was on my way home from work one weekend and noticed a ladder on the interstate across the right two lanes. There were very few cars out and everyone was slowing down and giving it a wide pass as they went by. I pulled over on the shoulder and was going to drag it off to the side.
As I was walking towards it a truck with a lift kit came flying down the road. I backed up quickly when he didn't veer off or slow down. As he ran over that ladder at full speed, the ladder jumped and came flying at me like a throwing knife. It wound up going between myself and my car and ended up about 10 feet off the road. I still don't know what series of events caused it to launch like that, but that ended my ladder wrangling days.
On a separate occasion, I was on my way home from work one weekend and noticed a ladder on the interstate across the right two lanes. There were very few cars out and everyone was slowing down and giving it a wide pass as they went by. I pulled over on the shoulder and was going to drag it off to the side.
As I was walking towards it a truck with a lift kit came flying down the road. I backed up quickly when he didn't veer off or slow down. As he ran over that ladder at full speed, the ladder jumped and came flying at me like a throwing knife. It wound up going between myself and my car and ended up about 10 feet off the road. I still don't know what series of events caused it to launch like that, but that ended my ladder wrangling days.
Nah, while not every good deed is rewarded, a consistent habit of good deeds will always leave you in a better place than you might have been in the long run.
On a funnier note, I once helped push a lady's car out after she got stuck in some snow. She wound up flooring it, breaking through whatever ice layer was there, catching the dirt/mud underneath and completely covered me head to toe with mud. It was like multiple people threw five gallon buckets of mud on me at once.
I ended up gator-rolling in the snow to get some of it off me.
I ended up gator-rolling in the snow to get some of it off me.
Loan a friend money sometime. They will never be your friend the same way again if they don't pay you back. In fact they will avoid you at all costs. Just tell them you don't have the money. It will save the relationship
Changing a tire on the interstate can be pretty nerve wracking.
We recently had a snow storm of over 16 inches over three days I was out snowblowing my driveway and my neighbor insists on parking his car in the street during a big storm so his car got completely surrounded with snow since the plow came through. So of course he was out there shoveling it out while I was finishing my driveway and I didn’t want to be a jerk and just go in the house so I started helping him with my blower. I was going along near his car then all of a sudden there’s a loud clunk sound and the engine died. It would not restart again. I looked at the auger back in my driveway and it was all wound up with a jump rope. I untangled that and try to start it and it still would not start so I went back into the house since another neighbor was helping him dig and I was very mad. I know the rope was theirs since they have kids there and the yard is always strewn with crap. The next morning the blower started but it died again soon as I engaged the auger, so I went back online and it said, as it did yesterday, to check for stale gas or a jammed auger shoot, but I just had the blower tuned up in the fall with fresh gas so I knew that wasnt it. I then put the thing on two wheels and sure enough out of sight was the jump rope handle all jammed up where I could not get it out without using a handsaw to chop half of it off and then I finally wiggled it out. I was sure stressed about a big repair/ pickup/ delivery bill. I also strained my back when I had to clear the bottom of the driveway with a shovel after phase 2 of the storm. Him parking in the street caused more snow on my driveway bottom then normal
When I lived in a previous town, I was snowblowing my drive, my boss who lived behind me asked me to check on his while he was gone. So as I was walking around the block with the blower I saw another neighbor whose drive was full, I cleaned out the end where the blow shoved boulders while he stood at the top and his kids came out, I blew up his driveway to him and he basically chewed me out and told me he was going to have his kids do it, well F you, so I just took off and never did anything for him ever again.
Same neighbor a year or so later, my boss (I did it as a neighbor and not because he was my boss) needed to haul some horse manure for his garden, I had a couple pickups and he had none, so we went and got some. I drove right next to my house since it was easier to get to his back garden that way. The jackwagon neighbor comes out and tells me I drove completely on his lawn, he was just mad that we had built there and wanted an open lot behind his house. It wasn't muddy so there were no tracks or anything and by the end when things were double checked, I had driven maybe 12 inches onto his lawn for about 6 feet (pie shaped lot). He then went and planted a bunch of evergreens where he thought the boundary was and actually encroached onto our property with a couple of them. I went back about 7-8 years later and some of those evergreens were basically rubbing on the house.
Same neighbor a year or so later, my boss (I did it as a neighbor and not because he was my boss) needed to haul some horse manure for his garden, I had a couple pickups and he had none, so we went and got some. I drove right next to my house since it was easier to get to his back garden that way. The jackwagon neighbor comes out and tells me I drove completely on his lawn, he was just mad that we had built there and wanted an open lot behind his house. It wasn't muddy so there were no tracks or anything and by the end when things were double checked, I had driven maybe 12 inches onto his lawn for about 6 feet (pie shaped lot). He then went and planted a bunch of evergreens where he thought the boundary was and actually encroached onto our property with a couple of them. I went back about 7-8 years later and some of those evergreens were basically rubbing on the house.
My neighbor is a good dude. A couple years ago, he came over with his snow blower while I was at work and cleared my driveway. He ended up running over an extension cord and some Christmas lights that had pulled loose around the base of my garage door. Fortunately it didn't do anything to his snow blower. I don't think he even knew it happened.
I was grateful for the kind deed, but I couldn't help be a little conflicted as I was fixing my extension cord and also having to buy and re-hang a set of lights.
And no, I never said anything to him. The intention was what matered.
I loaned a friend some money when I was probably 19-20 years old and never got it back. Found out after the fact that he had asked and received money from multiple friends and I don't think most of us got paid back.
Not quite as tense as the story @BCClone shared but had something similar happen to me. Back in college when I was living in Towers had a girl that wasn't going to ISU at the time but I had met elsewhere and become friends with come to town with one of her friends to got to the ISU Hockey game which is just a short walk from Towers. While at the game apparently one of her ex-boyfriends spotted her and came over and I quickly learned that he was still not over her and the situation started to escalate a bit as she kept asking him to leave her alone as she had no interest in taking him back. Eventually he left and as we were all walking back to Towers he pulls up in his truck (must have been waiting for us to leave is my guess) and starts rambling more nonsense about wanting her back blah blah which was starting to get uncomfortable once again. Very emotionally unstable at this point as he was combination of crying and angry yelling. By the time we got back to Towers he was still following us so she tells me and her friend to just go up to my room and she'll deal with this guy. We waited awhile and she finally comes back and not long later her cell phone starts ringing and it's this crazy dude once again and he's still waiting outside and wants to talk more. At that point I basically said if this guy doesn't buzz off soon I am not going to let the 2 of you leave to drive to drive home not knowing if this crazy guy is still out there any might follow you so find a way to get him away or I'll call the cops to come deal with him. He did eventually leave but I told her if she had any suspicion he was following them out of town turn around and come back. Before all this I kind of had a thing for her so was hoping eventually we'd hook up some day but after seeing that then meeting a few other of her boyfriends she had after that realized I did not want to get in the middle of all the drama she seemed to get herself into with her relationships.
Youth sports are the worst at younger ages isn't it? Takes someone with the patience and skills to deal with that so appreciate everyone who does volunteer to do it. We seem to have the worst luck that our kids always seem to get stuck on the teams that no parents want to step up and be the coach so it's like a game of chicken to see who will finally cave in and be the coach. My wife has done more than her fair share, this past year she was the soccer coach for both our girls, t-ball coach for 1 and assistant softball coach for the other, got talked into co-coaching volleyball and finally said no when we signed both up for basketball as she was ready for a break. She is only going to coach 1 of the girls soccer teams this year because we had too many games start to overlap this fall and ironically our older daughter's team has always had different assistant coaches that were into soccer more than my wife is and did more of the actual coaching than she did so figure it's time one of them finally just take it on as the head coach. It's a thankless job because feels like once you become that parent that is willing to coach the other parents are probably thinking "oh thank goodness it's not my problem!" Sounds bad to say but when you have multiple kids doing more than 1 sport at a time between all the practices and games you have to take them too adding the coaching responsibilities and time commitments that takes on can get hectic quickly.
