Random Acts of Kindness

[rubato]

I wised up a chump last week.

And I feel pretty good about it.



yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

I wised up a chump last week.

Talked to yourself did you?

[rubato]

I wised up a chump last week.

Talked to yourself did you?

Thanks, I was hoping you would show us the most unimaginative and stupid response possible. And you ran true to form.

What is more dense and less interesting? Hmmmm Lead? or Wolfram? I'll have to go give a think on that one!


yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Ah, the weekend, I look forward to rubato's posts on the weekend.

[Gob]

I wised up a chump last week.

And I feel pretty good about it.



yrs,
rubato

Only rubato could confuse a bit of self-aggrandisement with a "random act of kindness"

[Lord Jim]

I was hoping you would show us the most unimaginative and stupid response possible.

Would that I could, but you've got the Pinball Crown in that category...

Ah, the weekend, I look forward to rubato's posts on the weekend.

He may be welcoming The Easter Bunny a bit early....

[liberty]

Sometimes it takes so little to make a difference, and we get so much back in return.

A few years back I was walking by a pizza place in freezing cold weather when a guy out front who said he hadn't eaten in a couple of days and asked if I could buy him a slice. When we went inside I saw they had a medium pizza on special for $7.99, so I asked him if he could eat the whole thing if I got that for him. Without hesitating, he asked if it was ok if he only ate half of it and gave half to someone else on the street that was hungry. I almost started crying - the $8 really made no difference to me, but here was a guy starving enough to beg food from a stranger, and yet whose first instinct was to give away half of what he had to someone else. I was reminded of the biblical story of the woman who put the few pennies she had in the offering after others had given of their excess.

Well Scooter, perhaps I misjudged you, assuming of course four writing is sincere.

[Scooter]

Yes, I am always lying when I tell stories that paint me in a negative light in comparison to a homeless person. That makes me feel ever so much better about myself.

[liberty]

Yes, I am always lying when I tell stories that paint me in a negative light in comparison to a homeless person. That makes me feel ever so much better about myself.

I don’t see the negative light that you see.

[Lord Jim]

Well Lib, maybe I can help you there, (because it seemed pretty clear to me):

Scooter is comparing a person, (himself) who is giving what is to him an inconsequential amount of what he has, unfavorably versus a man who has to beg for food immediately thinking to give away half of all the food he has...

In other words, he is saying that this incident made his own "charity" seem trivial in comparison to the far greater charity of this person who has next to nothing...

Scooter can of course correct me if my interpretation is incorrect...

[Scooter]

You are correct. As I thought about it more over time, I found other lessons in that incident, but my initial reaction was as you describe.

[rubato]

I wised up a chump last week.

And I feel pretty good about it.



yrs,
rubato

Only rubato could confuse a bit of self-aggrandisement with a "random act of kindness"

Only you (and LJ) are stupid enough not to be able to see wry self-deprecating humor when it is rather obviously displayed.

What an absolute complete, total, and thorough asshole !

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

What an absolute complete, total, and thorough asshole !

Yet another excellent potential sigline for you...

[Joe Guy]

Or this...

[Gob]

Only you (and LJ) are stupid enough not to be able to see wry self-deprecating humor when it is rather obviously displayed.

What an absolute complete, total, and thorough asshole !

yrs,
rubato

I see the amazing amount of (unintentional) humour there, does that count?

[Lord Jim]

self-deprecating humor

You're not very good at that rube...

You're too much of a self-serious puffed up gasbag to pull it off convincingly....

You should stick with self-defecating humor...

You're always at your funniest when you're shitting all over yourself...

[Joe Guy]

Is this another example of "self-deprecating" humor? -

What an absolute complete, total, and thorough asshole !

yrs,

self-deprecato

[oldr_n_wsr]

Pleae take this crap to another thread. None of this is a Random Act of Kindness, quite the opposite.
Thank you.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Officer Surprises 9-Year-Old Running Lemonade Stand With Tablet
By EMILY SHAPIRO

An Ohio sheriff's deputy's quick stop at a lemonade stand turned into a moment 9-year-old Gabrielle will never forget.

On Monday, Lake County Sheriff's Deputy Zach Ropos stopped by the young girl's lemonade stand while on patrol in Painesville, Ohio, about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland.

"I see a little girl come running up to my police car," Ropos, 22, told ABC News today. "She hands me a glass, I hand her a few bucks. I asked her what she wanted to do with the money ... she said she'd get an iPad, to help with school and play games."

Ropos said he told the girl's mother he had an old iPad at home he could bring them the next day.

"I went home that night, fired up the iPad, but it just wasn't updated anymore ... nothing really worked on it," Ropos explained.

The next day, Ropos found a store that agreed to contribute to the cost of a tablet with him. Later Tuesday, Ropos met up with Gabrielle and her mother.

"I talked to the little girl, gave her a speech about how courageous and admirable I think her efforts were to save up her money," Ropos said. "I asked her how much she saved up, and she said she only had a few dollars."

Gabrielle explained to Ropos that her mother's car ran out of gas, so the child gave up her hard-earned money to fill the tank.

"When she told me she gave the money to her mom ... that's when I almost started crying because of how great of a kid she really was," Ropos said.

Ropos handed over the tablet in a sweet moment captured on camera by a co-worker.

"She just wouldn't stop hugging me," Ropos said.

"Seeing her face is how I remember Christmas when I was 5 years old. She couldn't stop smiling," Ropos said. "Her smile was worth a million dollars."

Ropos said he's worked at the sheriff's office for eight months. His boss, Lake County Sheriff Dan Dunlap, told ABC News today, "He's always liked to do stuff for people, and now it's part of his job."

"He's a really good guy," Dunlap added of Ropos. "He's done such a good job here."

"It's not as though this is the first time something has happened," Dunlap said, citing when two deputies bought a child a bike several months ago. "And you're really not supposed to brag about your good deeds. But there's been so much negativity about law enforcement ... that a sergeant on his shift heard about what was going on and decided to take a picture."

Dunlap has not personally spoken with Gabrielle and her mother, but said, "I was told both the mom and girl were in tears. Tears of appreciation and joy. From what the deputy said, they were surprised and extremely grateful."

Dunlap said he always tells graduating classes, "If you pass a kid's lemonade stand, buy a lemonade. You don't have to drink it. If you see an old person's garden, acknowledge it. There's plenty of chances in police work to be kind. [Ropos] took it the extra step."

https://gma.yahoo.com/officer-surprises ... 00648.html

[Econoline]

Thanks for getting this thread back on track, oldr. That story just made my day.