What is the nicest thing you have ever done?

[Fire Walk With Me]

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. I'm not sure how to qualify what's nicest; but once, after a holiday party gig...

The caterer gave us plates piled high with hot food. Hardly anyone had attended the party because it was snowing. When I stepped outside the building, I saw a homeless woman huddled up, trying to keep warm. She needed that food a lot more than I did. It made my holiday. :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. .

:thumbsup:

[trof]

5. Kinda same thing.

Our daughter had a Saturday after Thanksgiving wedding in San Diego.
Almost all of our friends were coming all the way from NH.
So we invited them to make a vacation out of it and come a few days early for Thanksgiving with us.

Our daughter had a tiny apartment in LaJolla, so we had it catered at a banquet facility on Mission Bay.

The food was delicious, but there was way too much.
I asked the caterer what they'd do with the leftovers.
"We take it straight to a food kitchen for the homeless."
Good for them.

[Road Scholar]

30. Isn't it strange how nice giving to a stranger w/o any strings

or conditions, makes one feel? Wouldn't it be nice if more folks did something like that. Thank you.

[Parche]

3. Nicest

Pulled out just in time............:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Now that's consideration.

You are a gentleman and a judge of fine beer :hi:

[ThomCat]

6. Volunteer work.

Pro-choice escort outside of a doctor's office, facing off against operation rescue.
Feeding homeless people.
One-on-one arts and crafts with homeless kids (while others worked with the parents to help them get homes)
Home renovation and maintenace work for isolated senior citizens.

That's the stuff that was probably most appreciated, so that's what people probably thought was the nicest stuff I did.

[lizziegrace]

9. ...

:hug:

[ThomCat]

12. ...

:hug:
Right back at you. :)

[billyskank]

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Edit

:evilgrin:

[billyskank]

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

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:rofl:

[billyskank]

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

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[lost-in-nj]

31. never mind

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lost.

[MissMarple]

40. You guys....

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Gifts are best when given anonymously, but in this case, let's let some light shine.

Consider it inspiration, not selfish gloating or attempts to be patted on the back (although it's okay to be patted on the back for having made the world a better place).

I'll go.

Myself, I haven't done a great deal for others. I suppose that I was born very selfish for some reason (infantile ego), and only through my own suffering, have I come to recognize it in others, to work out the reasons for their issues and what they're feeling or going through. I've done work on myself to bring myself out of such dire self-obsession, which will reduce the amount of negative things I'll do in my life as I go through it. I've done a little work with others going through the same thing.

I try to give food to the homeless, I try to allow people to actually change lanes or merge in front of me on the road, I try to say or do something to make other people smile if I can. I've given a little bit of money to charity. I pray for the benefit of all beings without exception.

The most that I can do is to try to bring attention to the fact that good is being done in the world, and that we can each do just a little to make even more of it.

One spiritual leader said to find ten people today who are not smiling, and to try to cheer them up.

[1gobluedem]

11. I taught my SO's daughter to read

Neither he nor her mother had the patience to sit and work with her, her twin was getting way ahead of her, and her teachers were getting worried (second grade; critical year). I formed a 'reading club' and read with her every single Tuesday afternoon during the school year and now she is a reading whiz.

[ThomCat]

13. That is awesome.

I came from a household where my mom was constantly reading. It was her form of escapism instead of television. But nobody ever read to us or helped us learn to read. We couldn't even identify the letters of the alphabet when we started first grade.

I didn't finally learn to read well until 5th grade, and then I never stopped.

It's amazing and wonderful that you took the time to help her. :hug:

[1gobluedem]

16. Thanks

I'm from a reading family too and I know how important it is (although our mother taught us all early; I could read at age three). It got frustrating at times but we stuck with it.

[MissMarple]

41. Good for you!

And developmentally, a lot of kids don't start reading well until third grade. Truth to tell. As a species, we are quite diverse. My boy child is an example. He will be a junior in college this year. Every year he got better...but that took some effort...he didn't like school all that much. He seems to now. He took a summer history class....go figure.

[Debi]

19. I can't say b/c then I wouldn't be anonymous any more

but let's just say that a group I belonged to was trying something new and it had to have a good first night (financially) in order to prove that it could work. I made sure that happened :P

[MnFats]

20. i taught an emotionally disturbed child to swim.

he had been abused and was terrified of the water.
but I said, "you know, Bruce, the water is your friend."
it was a revelation to him. "Really?" he said.
then we tiptoed, tiptoed oh so slowly into the water. It took an hour to get to a point where the water was knee deep.
it took most of a day but i finally got him to swim.
he had great fun.
that's the short version.

[Nikia]

21. I lent my car to a friend for a couple of weeks

While his got fixed.
In sixth grade, I prevented an unruly first grade boy from getting kicked off the bus by basically babysitting him which I stuck with all year even though the boy broke my glasses.

[Skittles]

22. mailed hundreds of beanie babies to Iraq that a coworker inherited

yes INDEED

[SPKrazy]

23. not got your thread locked

:evilgrin:

:shrug:


how the hell would I know?

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

24. Not killed my kid.

I swear I would have been acquitted by ANY jury on the grounds of justifiable homicide.

[halobeam]

25. I must be VERY nice

lol :P

[mopinko]

27. wow, i am nicer than i thought-

i have 5!

[halobeam]

26. on the more serious side...

our family took out what VERY little savings we had... went food shopping and got a cashiers check for a mortgage payment and brought it to an "ex" family member who had children, and had an eviction notice the week of Christmas.

I feel my children got as much out of it (in a different way), as did hers. She found it hard to accept (I've been there and I know it can be humiliating and equally relieving)and we both agreed not to tell our "common family members" about this. She would've been looked down upon and I would've been yelled at. We both are two black sheeps in the family. One of the things I've learned is that a black sheep of a dysfunctional family is really a white sheep.

[ThomCat]

32. The black sheep...

How true that is.

Almost every family sets up someone to be the scapegoat. And often the scapegoat is assumed to have all kinds of negative traits simply because the family is in the habit of automatically ascribing those negative traits. Many of my friends are the black sheep of their families, and I'm the black sheep of mine. We're almost all far more ethically developed and responsible than the families we came from.

[mopinko]

28. i pack up my extra chritmas cookies

and take them to the local vet center.
and i am well known in the neighborhood as the person who can break into your house for you if you lock yourself out. have done this several times. pretty good forger, too.

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. (pssst... forge impeachment documents...)

[nytemare]

29. Caught two doggie runaways while working gate duty

When I was an MP in Virginia. Off in the distance, I kept seeing Winn Dixie and Benji running across the street, into the ditch, back across the street, and into the ditch again. Finally, they got up near the gate shack where I called them over, and closed the stinky buggers in so I could check out their tags.

I got in trouble for putting the stinkers in the guard shack until the owner got there, but the lady brought cookies the next day, so all was right with the world.

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34. Replied to this thread :) (nt)

[Roon]

36. Giving a homless couple a ride to the shelter

and giving them 20.00 bucks. They were living in their car and it broke down. I helped push their car into a parking space and gave them a ride.

[jgraz]

37. I once had a very sick cat come to my door

I took him to the vet and there was nothing they could do. I stayed with him while they put him down. :cry:

[baby_mouse]

38. Forgave my father for being an abusive bastard....

... and went back and rejoined the family to help heal him.

I am super nice, me.

[MissMarple]

39. Random small kindnesses to strangers.

My kids see them sometimes, pretty much no one else does. No credit, don't need it.

Additionally, if I see a wiccan sticker on a car in the grocery store parking lot, and I have purchased fresh flowers, I put one under her/his wind shield wiper.

I know...random.

[Guava Jelly]

42. Since i hope to have many more years to do nicer things

It is a little early for me to judge.

[In_The_Wind]

43. Paid for a bus ticket to send an employee and her baby back home to her family.

Her boyfriend, the babies father, had recently started using her as a punching bag.

[guitar man]

44. a courtesy flush

and a shot of glade air freshener...:wow:

[MissMillie]

45. I'm not sure

I've donates clothes and money and my time here and there.

And I've helped my family whenever I could (most recently helping to keep things organized for my nephew's wedding).

I always go out of my way for my kid, but... he's my kid. You're supposed to try to make your kid happy (now I just need him to learn he's supposed to try to make me happy to).



Overall, as much as I try to do nice things, I probably fall short of what I should be doing.

[GaYellowDawg]

46. I'm not sure you'd call this nice, but it was right.

A very good friend developed a really hard crush on me, and I didn't feel the same way. She told me that she'd sleep with me if we could just date, and I didn't because I didn't want to take advantage of her. That was not an easy decision for a 19-year-old, especially because she was fairly attractive.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

47. My friend called from work

note: not my girlfriend, but she should've given me something for this! note: thats not why I did it.

She wanted her cds. which were in her locked dorm room. so I had to crawl through her window to find them. Oh, and my car's bettery was dead, so I also had to get a jump. But I got them to her. Probably not the nicest thing I've ever done, but in recent memory it is.

[QMPMom]

48. I paid for the funeral for my friend's preemie granddaughter

that had died in NICU. I also bought a brand new outfit and blanket for the baby to be wrapped in.

They had no money and I was doing okay at that time in my life.

[buddhamama]

49. i think the answer

would depend on who you asked.

i don't have an answer. :shrug: