Sometimes, good deeds DO go unpunished
I know not many people will see this, but I'm very excited and had to share. My stepdad was laid off over a year ago after the company he worked for went under. Since then he's been doing odd jobs but had a hell of a time finding work. As a result, he and my mom are seriously struggling financially (she's a teacher).
About 6 months ago, he got a job 2 days a week at a place he absolutely loves. A month ago they opened up a full-time position and he applied. Last Wednesday he had an interview with the assistant general manager and the general manager, and was told the job is between him and another guy.
That night, stepdad is driving home from work on the highway and sees a woman on the side of the road with a baby. She had a flat tire, so he pulled over to help (he always does this). He changes the tire and follows her to a gas station to put air in it, refuses her offer of money. They get to talking, she asks where he works. It turns out she's known the general manager for years through her own work and said she would have to call him and tell him stepdad is her hero.
Friday morning, stepdad gets pulled into general manager's office and is hired. Full time, with benefits, his own parking space. He starts Monday. The manager raved about how helpful stepdad is, his awesome personality, etc. I'm so happy for him and my mom, I just had to share!
Re: Sometimes, good deeds DO go unpunished
When I was a freshman in college, I was driving home to Houston from San Antonio for the weekend when my back tire completely disintegrated. I don't know what happened, all I knew was that my truck started shaking and I pulled over because I was scared. Before I could even realize what was going on and start freaking out, a couple dressed in business clothing pulled over behind me and told me that my tire went kaput. The guy changed my tire in his suit on the side of the road and got all gross, and I was back on my way in 15 minutes. I wished I would have gotten their business card or something, because I would have liked to have done something nice for them, but I didn't think about it at the time. I still think about those people and hope that something wonderful has happened to them as a result of their kindness to me.
It's just funny how small a world it is. Of all the times he's stopped to help people on the side of the road, it was this one time he met the right person on the right day.
[QUOTE]What a wonderful story! When I was a freshman in college, I was driving home to Houston from San Antonio for the weekend when my back tire completely disintegrated. I don't know what happened, all I knew was that my truck started shaking and I pulled over because I was scared. Before I could even realize what was going on and start freaking out, a couple dressed in business clothing pulled over behind me and told me that my tire went kaput. The guy changed my tire in his suit on the side of the road and got all gross, and I was back on my way in 15 minutes. I wished I would have gotten their business card or something, because I would have liked to have done something nice for them, but I didn't think about it at the time. I still think about those people and hope that something wonderful has happened to them as a result of their kindness to me.
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I don't know what I'd do if that happened to me. I'd probably be like the woman he helped, standing there freaking out. That's awesome that they stopped, even in nice clothes.
Stepdad said the woman looked at him like he was a psycho when he stopped. Understandable, since she had a baby, was alone, and people generally tend to suck these days. So he just asked here where the spare was and got to work. Once she was sure he wasn't going to attack her she started talking.
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I wish I could be more like them in that they make friends wherever they go, always help people in need, etc. But I take after my dad, we're anti-social kind of folk.
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Then a truck pulled up to the pump and 4 guys got out. They saw me on the phone, looking under the hood as I described what was going on to my stepdad. They came over and figured out the problem, talked to my stepdad so he knew what part to buy, and stayed with me until he got there (about an hour) so the creepy guys would leave me alone.
Turns out they were headed in the same direction to help out the people affected by the hurricanes that year. They were filling up on gas for their tools and were going down for a week to clean up some of the really hard-hit areas, just because they wanted to help.
Massive uterine fibroids removed 3/06
BFP 1/11; MM/C discovered @ 10w, loss at 6w; Cytotec
B/W 7/11 = normal CD3, FSH 8.9; 7DPO progesterone 1.7
Three Clomid cycles, all BFN, Off to an RE for me...
FSH=8.7 E2=30 AMH=1.8 HSG clear, SA=great
Inj. IUI #1 12/9/11 BFN, Inj. IUI #2 1/6/12 BFN
Inj. IUI #3 1/30/12 BFP!, HCG doubled through 6w, 7w u/s mm/c twins
Lost our known donor to unplanned pregnancy
Factor V Leiden, Hetero, symptomatic
Op Hysteroscopy 5/12, removed scar tissue and uterine septum
Doing Cryo-DE IVF and older child adoption (Home visit- Check!)
Beautiful hatching 5-blast transfered 8/30
BFP 9/7/12 EDD May 19, 2013, beta #1=291 beta #2=762 beta #3=7306
Sneek peak u/s shows HB at 6w1d!!! 123bpm!
Still have a HB at 18w0d!!! 142bpm! Grow, baby, grow!
Great NT scan, but, placenta previa. Resolving!
Labile Hypertension, placed on HBP meds to try to avoid pre-e
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One time, when my best friend and I were still in college, we were driving at about 11 at night and she drove over a tire that was lying in the road. I'm not really sure how it happened and we didn't even realize there was an issue until we saw sparks flying from underneath the car.
Terrified, we pulled into a car dealership and tried to look under the car, but we couldn't see anything. A man in a huge truck pulled in beside us--naturally, we were nervous. He asked us what was wrong, looked under the car and told us we were dragging a tire. Then he pulled a huge Captain Hook style hook and rope fromhis car, at which point I whispered "What the hell kind of person drives around with a hook in their car?!?!" . He ended up hooking the tire and yanking it our with his own truck. He was a genuinely nice guy and we've always wondered who he was, where he was from, etc. Good Samaritans make a difference in the world.
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