The Great Carpezio
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Aug 21, 2014 1:54:46 GMT
Gosh, I'm sorry ladies. Those stories are horrible. I don't really have anything I can think of that is that bad. As a high school teacher, I get a lot of little things that hurt. I spend a lot of time on trying to make things engaging and kids still complain or bend over backwards for a student and it still isn't good enough for Mom...thar kind of thing.
Once, about three months after I gave my niece two large bags of brand name baby clothes, and I know for a fact she got a flat screen TV and North Face jacket a month before from relatives, she posted on Facebook that "no one has ever given me anything. I've had to pay my way and done everything on my own..." And on and on.
(Her college, until she dropped out of her private school, was paid fo since her dad worked in the private college system. She forged checks as a teen an ended up in a work camp. She had cars and insurance paid for as a teen. She never wanted for anything---had stereos, tv in her room, nice clothes, etc.... While growing up.).
Yeah, that one sent me over the edge. Ungrateful little..l
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Aug 21, 2014 1:55:48 GMT
Olan, omg that's horrible!
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 21, 2014 3:26:03 GMT
I sent a friend who was hurting a gift, it was a handmade bracelet fro an etsy shop. It had a positive uplifting quote engraved on it. I knew it was shipped and a couple of weeks went by without acknowledgement. I called to see how she was doing and she mentioned she received it but that was it. We don't live in the same state. She visited a month ago and she did not wear the bracelet. My feelings were hurt. Then the more I thought about it through the years, I've had struggles too and I can't think of one thoughtful or uplifting thing she has done for me. So, maybe it's time to reevaluate this relationship. That was very thoughtful of you. I'm sorry that she didn't appreciate your gesture.
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 21, 2014 3:32:11 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. I'm sorry that you were treated horribly when they should have been thanking you. You did the right thing. Please don't let their behavior stop you from offering help again.
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Post by compwalla on Aug 21, 2014 3:33:18 GMT
My cousin's son died of a drug overdose and she had no money to bury him so the family took up a collection. I sent in a check for as much as I could afford at the time (I think it was $250) and my aunt told me that at the actual funeral my cousin told everyone my check bounced. She said this (it wasn't true btw; that bitch cashed my check about five seconds after she got it) because she was mad about something that happened 20 years earlier, an incident I don't even remember that had something to do with planning a get-together. My aunt told me why my cousin was mad and I'm 99% sure it wasn't even me and she's just remembering it wrong. But she was butthurt about it enough to interrupt her child's funeral to lie about me to the family. Lovely. I think you told us this story on the bucket as it happened? Else there's more than one person who's done this as I've heard that exact story before. Lol Yes, I did! That was my story.
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 21, 2014 3:34:56 GMT
I had a customer whose house burned and she came to me to wash ans style her hair later that day cause it smelled like smoke and she had nothing to wash or style it. I fixed her a bag with shampoo, conditioner, styling products, brushes, combs, pony tail holders. I think I even gave her an old hair dryer. Later that day, my water lines clogged in the salon and caused a drain pipe to burst and made a huge mess. The plumber (and I use that term loosely) that the landlord sent to fix it was trying to dig up septic tank even though I told him it wasn't septic water and hit county water line. So I had no water coming in or going out! Not good in a hair salon. That stinks that you had such a mess with the burst pipe. Thank you for helping your customer.
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billstergirl
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Post by billstergirl on Aug 21, 2014 5:33:53 GMT
Last summer SO and I were sitting out on our porch watching the rain when a couple of his buddies show up. I went inside while they continued to sit outside and consume some beer. The driver decided that he shouldn't drive home. SO came and asked me if I minded driving them home. The first guy lives nearby but there were several rain puddles along the way. Normally rain puddles wouldn't be an issue in my car but SO drives a car that is low to the ground that has a cold air intake. As we are driving the 2nd guy home we have to make several detours because it rained a lot more on the other side of town than it did where we lived. Eventually we couldn't detour any more. We went through an intersection that was pretty much a small lake. I drove through as slow as possible so that I wouldn't splash any water into the intake..... the car died just as I got through the puddle. We waited a bit and the car was able to start. We dropped off the friend but the car was weird all the way home. SO checked everything the next day in hopes that everything would be ok. Nope. water got into the cold air intake and then into the engine. It had to be replaced to the tune of $5000. We should have had the guy call his wife to come pick him up.
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tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Aug 21, 2014 11:36:22 GMT
my mom sent her niece's daughter a check for $100.00 for her junior high school graduation because she knew they didn't have much money. "someone" turned the number 1 on the $100.00 to a 4 and cashed the check for $400.00. when my mom got the cancelled check back and questioned her niece, the niece said that she didn't know who changed the number on the check and implied it arrived that way. my mom would never, could never, send $400.00 and it was so obvious on the cancelled check that it was altered. if she couldn't afford to pay it back, at least admit to it. another time, my sister lent the same niece's daughter $300.00 because she called and said she needed the money (I know, stupid). my sister wasn't exactly rolling in the dough but she loaned the money out of courtesy to her 1st cousin (the girl's mom). well surprise surprise, the girl never paid it back. no apologies. no mention of it. I swear, that person has no shame or gratitude. I'm sorry, but she's on my sh^t list for what she did to my mom and sister. Did she also change it on the line where you spell out the amount? What a horrible human being.
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Nink
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Post by Nink on Aug 21, 2014 12:00:40 GMT
my mom sent her niece's daughter a check for $100.00 for her junior high school graduation because she knew they didn't have much money. "someone" turned the number 1 on the $100.00 to a 4 and cashed the check for $400.00. when my mom got the cancelled check back and questioned her niece, the niece said that she didn't know who changed the number on the check and implied it arrived that way. my mom would never, could never, send $400.00 and it was so obvious on the cancelled check that it was altered. if she couldn't afford to pay it back, at least admit to it. another time, my sister lent the same niece's daughter $300.00 because she called and said she needed the money (I know, stupid). my sister wasn't exactly rolling in the dough but she loaned the money out of courtesy to her 1st cousin (the girl's mom). well surprise surprise, the girl never paid it back. no apologies. no mention of it. I swear, that person has no shame or gratitude. I'm sorry, but she's on my sh^t list for what she did to my mom and sister. That's horrible. Couldn't your mom have called the bank? Even if the girl changed the 1to a 4, the actual amount would still be written out below to show the fraud. ETA: I didn't read all the comments and see someone above me had the same thought. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by alibama on Aug 21, 2014 12:33:28 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. Olan, That is horrible! I am so sorry you went through that. Some people are just awful!
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Post by alibama on Aug 21, 2014 12:52:42 GMT
I think you told us this story on the bucket as it happened? Else there's more than one person who's done this as I've heard that exact story before. Lol Yes, I did! That was my story. What a horrible person! I don't understand how people can be like this! I am sorry that happened to you.
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Post by alibama on Aug 21, 2014 13:33:24 GMT
I wanted to respond to so many of these stories.
My most recent one was last year. I will try to make this short. I work with the local Boy Scout Troop as their Fundraising chair, I have been doing it with this group for 15 years, my son is long gone from the Troop but I still stay.
Last year a new Cub Scout Pack started in the same church and I agreed to help them setting up their first sale to raise money for the pack.
So one of the moms had money to turn into me. Her husband called and said we didnt' want to hold on to the cash over the weekend so we put it in a money order.
Tuesday night rolls around and they didn't show. Called and they gave me this story about he accidently made the money order out in his wifes name and he took it and tried to fix it and they wouldn't do it. I said not a big deal, just have her sign it and the Troop can sign and it deposit it. Well of course they didn't show up again, then I got the sob story that they called their bank and the bank told them that I would not be able to deposit it because it had her name on it (bullshit) we do it all the time.
So six weeks after the fact, we get a check from them for 650.00 and of course it bounced. By this time I have already been in touch with the Boy Scout Council and they got involved and said they would take it from there. The new Pack never did get any of the money. I know our Troop gave them money to help them get things going and the council helped to so at least the pack itself didn't loose.
I am not sure how you can feel okay with yourself after stealing money from 7 year old boys. That is what she did.
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uksue
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Post by uksue on Aug 21, 2014 13:44:02 GMT
my mom sent her niece's daughter a check for $100.00 for her junior high school graduation because she knew they didn't have much money. "someone" turned the number 1 on the $100.00 to a 4 and cashed the check for $400.00. when my mom got the cancelled check back and questioned her niece, the niece said that she didn't know who changed the number on the check and implied it arrived that way. my mom would never, could never, send $400.00 and it was so obvious on the cancelled check that it was altered. if she couldn't afford to pay it back, at least admit to it. that's really nasty Here, we have to write the number in letters as well as numbers ie 'one hundred ' so it would be much harder to forge.
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Post by papersilly on Aug 21, 2014 14:48:50 GMT
my mom sent her niece's daughter a check for $100.00 for her junior high school graduation because she knew they didn't have much money. "someone" turned the number 1 on the $100.00 to a 4 and cashed the check for $400.00. when my mom got the cancelled check back and questioned her niece, the niece said that she didn't know who changed the number on the check and implied it arrived that way. my mom would never, could never, send $400.00 and it was so obvious on the cancelled check that it was altered. if she couldn't afford to pay it back, at least admit to it. another time, my sister lent the same niece's daughter $300.00 because she called and said she needed the money (I know, stupid). my sister wasn't exactly rolling in the dough but she loaned the money out of courtesy to her 1st cousin (the girl's mom). well surprise surprise, the girl never paid it back. no apologies. no mention of it. I swear, that person has no shame or gratitude. I'm sorry, but she's on my sh^t list for what she did to my mom and sister. Did she also change it on the line where you spell out the amount? What a horrible human being. She changed the spelled out words "one hundred dollars" to an "f" in front of the "o" and wrote "ur" over the "ne". It was such an obvious alteration but the bank still cashed it. My mom didn't find out about it until she was looking over her account before the cancelled check had come back with her monthly statement. Remember when the bank sent the check instead of just sending you a photo?
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Post by alibama on Aug 21, 2014 14:50:03 GMT
Did she also change it on the line where you spell out the amount? What a horrible human being. She changed the spelled out words "one hundred dollars" to an "f" in front of the "o" and wrote "ur" over the "ne". It was such an obvious alteration but the bank still cashed it. My mom didn't find out about it until she was looking over her account before the cancelled check had come back with her monthly statement. Remember when the bank sent the check instead of just sending you a photo? Shame on the bank for cashing that check!
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 21, 2014 15:00:05 GMT
my mom sent her niece's daughter a check for $100.00 for her junior high school graduation because she knew they didn't have much money. "someone" turned the number 1 on the $100.00 to a 4 and cashed the check for $400.00. when my mom got the cancelled check back and questioned her niece, the niece said that she didn't know who changed the number on the check and implied it arrived that way. my mom would never, could never, send $400.00 and it was so obvious on the cancelled check that it was altered. if she couldn't afford to pay it back, at least admit to it. that's really nasty Here, we have to write the number in letters as well as numbers ie 'one hundred ' so it would be much harder to forge.
We do here too, uksue. Here is the weird part. When they differ my bank goes by the numbers and not the written out amount. How stupid is that?
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 21, 2014 15:01:39 GMT
These are some crazy stories. Especially papersilly and compwalla's. People can be such asshats.
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Post by scrapsotime on Aug 21, 2014 16:05:48 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. As the mother of a child who has seizures I want to thank you for what you did. There have been strangers that have stopped to help my child when he has had seizures in public and we have never known who they were. I would have liked to have thanked them personally, but we were never able to find out who they were. My family and I appreciate this kind of kindness even if the people you helped didn't.
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Aug 21, 2014 16:11:11 GMT
Not really a 'good deed', but once when I was behind a car, leaving a parking lot, the car in front of me rolled back TWICE and tapped my front bumper. We were waiting on traffic to clear, and the exit was on an incline. Maybe his car was a standard transmission, or something-- the incline wasn't that steep.
Anyway, the second time he rolled back into me, I tapped my horn. He jumped out of his car and waved his arms, yelling at me. He thought I was honking for him to pull into traffic! I shouted back at him that he was rolling into me, but he jumped back into his car in his indignant snit and I'm pretty sure he didn't hear me.
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Post by Aheartfeltcard on Aug 21, 2014 16:13:48 GMT
Reading about the Pea who gathered baby things for a family member in need got me thinking about 'no good deed goes unpunished'. I think everyone probably has at least one good story about this. Here's mine: A while back, DH was looking at new cars. His old car wasn't going to get us much in terms of a sale or trade in, so we decided to offer it to a family member, for free. She was financially strapped and definitely in need of a reliable vehicle. When we offered it to her, she was thrilled and said yes immediately. We told her we'd let her know when it was available. A few weeks later she told us she decided her husband needed the car more (Her on again, off again husband- they were always on the verge of divorce.) and she was going to give it to him, instead. DH was mad. He knew she was doing it because her DH pitched a fit and said he wanted the car. We would not have chosen to give the car to him. He was an ass that treated her and her kids badly. Plus- we were pretty sure he wasn't going to be around much longer, and it drove DH nuts thinking of the doof leaving with his car. Soon after this revelation, the family comes to our house for a BBQ (but they were not picking up the car). The husband comes in and tells DH 'Let's go out and look at the car.' They go outside and he walks around the car in circles, surveying it from every angle. He asks about every ding and scratch. He looks inside, looks under the hood. Asks 'what comes with the car' and what will we do to it before we hand it over? Will we have it tuned up? Have the oil changed? How new are those tires? Do they come with a guarantee? If they have trouble with the tires, will I take the car to Costco and pretend we still own it, to take advantage of the warranty? It went ON AND ON- over a decent, FREE, car. He even wanted the license plates- and they were personalized! When he came back into the house he asked me if I found the title (we had just moved in and I hadn't found that box yet). When I said no - he YELLED at me and told me I needed to find it before he would take the car. DH threw up his hands and said "You know what- forget it. This is more trouble than it's worth." I still can't believe that happened. Holy crapolA!
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Post by Katie on Aug 21, 2014 16:17:45 GMT
Ugh..we have a car I was thinking about gifting. Seriously making me rethink it. We donated a car 3 years ago to the American Vets and it worked out slick. They came to pick it up and we didn't even have to be there. I highly recommend this group.
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julieb
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Post by julieb on Aug 21, 2014 17:25:48 GMT
I don't have any horrible out of money stories, but my time is valuable. I've done many crafty things for people, from refinishing a table to painting a child's name on their wall (super cute) and haven't even received so much as a thank you. People think because I don't work that I have all the time in the world. Well I don't.
So sorry Olan that you had that experience.
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Post by juliet on Aug 21, 2014 17:26:31 GMT
Mine is from a few years ago. My MIL had been hinting about this specific candle-holder she liked. So I (student, not a lot of money) decided to be the good DIL and buy it for her as a surprise. Well, the surprise was on me, because two years later I received her candle holder as a gift on my birthday. Wrapped and everything, presented like it was the most amazing gift she had ever given to me. She obviously didn't remember me giving it to her.
(And she knew I don't like candles....)
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 21, 2014 17:37:04 GMT
Mine is from a few years ago. My MIL had been hinting about this specific candle-holder she liked. So I (student, not a lot of money) decided to be the good DIL and buy it for her as a surprise. Well, the surprise was on me, because two years later I received her candle holder as a gift on my birthday. Wrapped and everything, presented like it was the most amazing gift she had ever given to me. She obviously didn't remember me giving it to her. (And she knew I don't like candles....) Ouch.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 21, 2014 17:42:47 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. How despicable.
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Post by alibama on Aug 21, 2014 17:50:46 GMT
Mine is from a few years ago. My MIL had been hinting about this specific candle-holder she liked. So I (student, not a lot of money) decided to be the good DIL and buy it for her as a surprise. Well, the surprise was on me, because two years later I received her candle holder as a gift on my birthday. Wrapped and everything, presented like it was the most amazing gift she had ever given to me. She obviously didn't remember me giving it to her. (And she knew I don't like candles....) That's really crappy. I am sorry that happened to you.
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Olan
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Post by Olan on Aug 21, 2014 18:17:58 GMT
Thanks ladies it was a pretty disheartening experience. My mother was prone to seizures after a head injury and although she is gone I'm sure in our small town someone would have come to her aid so I will keep that in mind if I'm hesitant to help when needed.
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Post by 2peaornot2pea on Aug 21, 2014 18:37:30 GMT
My cousin's son died of a drug overdose and she had no money to bury him so the family took up a collection. I sent in a check for as much as I could afford at the time (I think it was $250) and my aunt told me that at the actual funeral my cousin told everyone my check bounced. She said this (it wasn't true btw; that bitch cashed my check about five seconds after she got it) because she was mad about something that happened 20 years earlier, an incident I don't even remember that had something to do with planning a get-together. My aunt told me why my cousin was mad and I'm 99% sure it wasn't even me and she's just remembering it wrong. But she was butthurt about it enough to interrupt her child's funeral to lie about me to the family. Lovely. The flames of hell are licking at my ankles for typing this.... Imagine this, sending her another check for a very large sum in a "Thinking About You" card (as in thinking and remembering what an ungrateful beast you were when I sent you money before) but order a stop payment on the check. hehehehehee "Forgive me Father, for I have sinned" Some sins feel so worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 18:55:48 GMT
I was sitting at a red light when I saw this lady collapse in her lawn. I ran over to her and when she started seizing I turned her to her side and tried to kick the sprinkler away. Her husband came running out of the garage and knocked me over. At first I thought it was concern for his wife and just a gut reaction thing but when the ambulance arrived (I called) he said he wanted me arrested because I attacked his wife. He hurled a couple racial slurs again came charging at me and tore the scarf I was wearing. Wet, humiliated and pissed I just waited in my car for the police to arrive. I'm guessing his wife had similar views so I wished I had just waited for the green light and made it to work dry and with my scarf intact. ? I'm SO sorry that happened to you. This summer I was having a hard time finding swimming lessons for my son, & I knew someone else having the same trouble. Someone that we both knew was a swim teacher, but didn't have a pool to teach in. I found a pool, and got permission for the other person to use it as well so that her kids could have lessons too. Long story short, the person that I helped with the lessons ended up treating me very badly over those same lessons., and I was gobsmacked. Totally did not see it coming. The swim teacher witnessed how she treated me, & agreed that next summer we should not have lessons at the same time.
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Post by annabella on Aug 21, 2014 19:04:27 GMT
Wow these are some horrible stories!
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