Boy, did I do a good deed today!

[John Fields]

In rush hour traffic yesterday, as I approached a busy intersection, I heard
a siren. Though the light had just turned green for me, I inched forward and
saw an ambulance trying to get past on the cross street. I had left plenty
of room for it to pass but the cars behind me were honking for me to go.
Talk about clueless...

---
Once, on the Belt Parkway in New York City, traffic had ground to a
halt and I noticed that a motorcycle cop was threading his way through
traffic in the space between cars on my side, so I jockeyed back and
forth a few times in the little space I had between the cars in front
of and behind me to give him a little extra clearance between the car
next to me on my left. When he finally got to my car he pulled up
right next to me, looked in the window and said, "Hey, I ought to give
you a ticket! Don't you know better than to be moving around in
traffic like this?" and then he went on his way, which proves that no
good deed goes unpunished!

 

[Sir Charles W. Shults III]

So a daily good deed is good for everybody. Now that question I find
just weird is, why dont we teach people this stuff??

Regards, NT

Simple. Because they take it as an insult. Try to help somebody out
and they will assume the worst- such as, you are trying to prove that you
are superior, or that you are trying to trick them, or ... whatever crawled
up in their mind and died.
I usually do things for people in a way that they will never know.
Stuff works out and they accept it. That seems to be the best.

Cheers!

Sir Charles W. Shults III

 

[Oppie]

Once, on the Belt Parkway in New York City,

John Fields

Didn't realize you were practically a neighbor John.
I'm from White Plains, about 25 miles North of NY City.

Oppie

 

[N. Thornton]

We don't know how.

How bout first explaining it, how it works, and what it does. Then
asking for recall of past events that demonstrate the benefits. Seems
simple nuff. Maybe not?


Regards, NT

 

[John Fields]

Didn't realize you were practically a neighbor John.
I'm from White Plains, about 25 miles North of NY City.

 

[Dbowey]

John posted:

a siren. Though the light had just turned green for me, I inched forward and
saw an ambulance trying to get past on the cross street. I had left plenty
of room for it to pass but the cars behind me were honking for me to go.
Talk about clueless...

---
Once, on the Belt Parkway in New York City, traffic had ground to a
halt and I noticed that a motorcycle cop was threading his way through
traffic in the space between cars on my side, so I jockeyed back and
forth a few times in the little space I had between the cars in front
of and behind me to give him a little extra clearance between the car
next to me on my left. When he finally got to my car he pulled up
right next to me, looked in the window and said, "Hey, I ought to give
you a ticket! Don't you know better than to be moving around in
traffic like this?" and then he went on his way, which proves that no
good deed goes unpunished!
Or it proves my belief that there are a dozen assholes born each minute and too
many of them become police officers. Or maybe both.

Don

 

[Rich Grise]

How bout first explaining it, how it works, and what it does. Then
asking for recall of past events that demonstrate the benefits. Seems
simple nuff. Maybe not?

I think it's the kind of thing you can only teach by example, and
just telling people about it is too much like a lecture. As far as what
it does, it makes me, anyway, feel really good.

But it doesn't take much. A kind work here and there can brighten
up a day sometimes.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Alan Hicks]

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, N. Thornton dared to utter,

So a daily good deed is good for everybody. Now that question I find
just weird is, why dont we teach people this stuff??

People do teach this stuff, but not here. This is
alt.os.linux.slackware and dicussions on morals and doing-the-right
thing are simply off-topic. Go to a church and talk with a minister, or
tka e a college ethics class, or read some philosophy books or whatever
you want to get your kick on this, but take it elsewhere. We don't come
here to listen to this drivel.

*plonks an all noise thread*

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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