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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Tomato* thiefI used to grow a reasonable number of tomatoes, to the point where I had large numbers of them around my house in storage.
Familiarity and contempt being such good bedfellows, I let many people share in my horticultural bounty, and many tomato tasting and sharing nights were undertaken.
Then..I noticed that large numbers of tomatoes were going missing from various storage places around the house - who could it have been? I didn't check regularly at first, so there had been a number of people through our doors.
Imagine calling all your friendships into question. Analysing all your mates behaviour. Did you leave them unattended? Were they 'the type'? Not nice.
We hid our tomatoes more carefully, and still the buggers would go missing. It was getting beyond a joke.
One day, I was driving a little later than usual down a road, and my ex's job share partner (my ex was at work) drove down towards me, and ducked as she saw my car. She would only have been going that way on the way to our house. Our spider senses started tingling.
She had keys as we'd asked her to feed our cats. Turns out she had been systematically burgling our house for a period of months, including such times as when my ex was in labour. To top it all, she was too tight to even pay to take a copy of the keys when another mate needed them to feed our cats, and just gave her duds, so that she couldn't get in and our cats were largely unfed for a week. Nice eh. Some proper aunts out there.
Sarah was one of them.
*species changed to protect the innocent..
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