The nicest thing someone's ever done for meIn amongst all the tales of bitterness and poo, we occasionally get fluffy stories that bring a small tear to our internet-jaded eyes.
In celebration of this, what is the nicest thing someone's done for you? Whether you thoroughly deserved it or it came out of the blue, tell us of heartwarming, selfless acts by others.
Failing that, what nice things have you done for other people, whether they liked it or not?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 16:14)
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We had a bad few yearsin the Flatfrog household. After devoting three years to a website that failed dismally, I spent another year and a half writing a book on a very small advance. Programming work was thin on the ground and we had two small tadpoles so Mrs Flatfrog couldn't easily go back to work.
Then I was lucky enough to find a really good job working for a company in Surrey (I'm still with them three years later), so we moved down here. But despite a whopping salary compared to what I was earning before, Surrey is a lot more expensive than Lincoln and we had huge debts, so it was hard to see how we would ever get properly back on our feet, let alone buy a house.
And then out of the blue came a call from my Dad. He and his wife had been talking, and thought to themselves 'it's stupid that the kids should have to wait until we're dead to inherit our money. They need it now'. They had a second house that they were renting out to students. They sold it and just gave me and my brother half the money each. It paid off our debts and gave us enough to put down a deposit on our own house. I've never been more stunned and grateful in my life.
Don't get me wrong - we would have survived without it. But that money, unasked for and unexpected, put us back on our feet and enabled us to move forward with our lives. I'll never forget it, and I'll certainly do the same for my kids.
Like my penis, long and not full of hummus, sorry.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 3 Oct 2008, 7:32,
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Didyour brother spend all his money on drugs and fast women then come crawling back to your father asking for forgiveness, and your dad killed his fattened calf for a welcome home feast for him only you were annoyed that your dad forgave him so easily but then your dad said that you had to celebrate because your brother who was dead to you is now alive again, who was lost is now found?
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Yes, yes that's exactly what happenedI wrote a book about it but it turned out someone had beaten me to it.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Tue 7 Oct 2008, 15:22,
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