And that's the thanks I gotOn getting screwed over by people for whom you were doing a favour:
I spent several weeks helping my best friend - a complete layabout - with his A-Level computer science project so he wouldn't fail his course. In the end, he did so little work I actually ended up doing the whole thing for him in a half-term week I should really have spent revising for my own exams.
I got back to college to find that while I was hunched over a red-hot BBC Micro, he had spent the week screwing my girlfriend.
Then he didn't bother sitting the exam because "I'm going to fail anyway".
And that's the thanks I got. How have you been screwed over whilst doing someone a favour?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 May 2007, 10:20)
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New York City - Staten Island Ferry TerminalI was a rookie stockbroker. Working crazy hours and I was heading home. It was about 9pm. I get to the ferry terminal and this homeless guy asks me for $.25. I dont have it to spare and shrug and say "sorry Bro."
I sit down and about 10 minutes later, I snap out of my post-work daze to a woman saying "Oh my Gawd, he is gonna kill that boy!" And I see that a drunk has now taken to pummeling the crap out of the homeless guy that was asking me for money.
I jump up and sprint to the scene and the last 5 or 6 feet, I am airborne. I hit the drunk guy with my right forearm, knocking him free from the homeless guy and onto the hard tile floor. I get myself on top of the guy and have my right elbow poised and pressing on his Adams apple, ready to literally crush his esophagus.
I get pulled off this drunk moron by the rozzers. They escort both of us back into this small office they have for the NYPD stationed there. They are decidedly rough in their handling of my delicate person in transporting me from the scene to the 'room'.
They are aghast that someone intervened on behalf of the homeless guy. They are also aghast that I nearly killed the guy that was beating up on the homeless guy. Fortunately for me, the woman whose scream alerted me to the problem told them the entire story.
The thanks of a city under siege from drunken morons? The appreciation of a homeless guy? The thoughtful gesture of a homeless man offering ME a $.25 piece?
Nope.
The cops gave me a free pass for the Staten Island Ferry saving me $.50 on my daily commute. Two weeks later, the fare for the Ferry is eradicated.
I got nothing.
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Tue 29 May 2007, 16:14,
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