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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My dadMy dad got me to buy a flat thinking he would put the deposit down and I would pay to do it up (though we'd work on it together as we have on several to make him some money after a horrible divorce from my evil mother) and pay the mortgage and then we'd sell it, split the profits and I could finally buy a place of mine own.
We worked like dogs and it was really great to learn so much from him and turn a really grubby pokey little flat into a lovely modern place together.
But we bought it last December so selling it for a profit is somewhat unlikely.
Anyway it came to the point where it was almost done and I thought I'd better get a valuation and see how much (well how little we'd make as the crunch had started with fury) and he asked why.
Then told me it had always been his plan for me to have this place, that he hadn't known what he would have done without my emotional support and unconditional love throughout the divorce and my one weekend a month hard graft for the last 5 years trying to build him a little bit of retirement money had meant that he was doing alright.
Then he told me he had done alot better than he thought with the properties - money making wise - I had helped him with and told me the deposit was mine, and that the flat was mine.
I couldn't believe it, I never thought that I would get anything back for helping him but he gave me something I hadn't had for nearly 10 years a proper home to call my own.
He is the cats pyjamas and I can't believe that anyone has done something so kind for me.
I love my dad very much and was happy to help him get on his feet again and I would have been too proud to have taken this deposit from him so he hoodwinked me into it and I am very grateful to him for getting me on my feet too.
Course I can't sell the bugger til 2020 or something now if I don't want to go into negative equity, but I'm not ever sure I will want to sell the flat we made together.
Apols for length, got a bit misty again writing this down.
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:42, 2 replies)
He is a darlinand he knows me well enough to know he'd have to trick me! Bless him!
(, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 14:41, closed)
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