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I always hold doors and whatnot, just raised right I guess...
I don't go that far out of my way anymore, in terms of stopping to help people, unless there's a reason... older, obviously in need of help, etc.
Here's why....
(it's long, so be warned)
I was doing some morning walking, and saw a lady in a newer acura on the side of the road with a flat tire. I offer to change her tire, she says yes, saying how late she was for an appointment and 'thanking' me.. I ask her to pop her trunk, I get out the tire, jack the car up, and start changing it, with traffic whizzing by... Well, she 'politely' asks how long it'll take, I tell her 'it's going to be a few mins, and you'll back on the road no problem' ... At this point she starts complaining about being late for her appointment, and asks if I could possibly hurry it up a bit.... She 'thanks' me again, and keeps stressing how important this 'appointment' is... implying that it was medical related (I can't remember exactly what she said)... Well, she gets on the phone, and I can hear her talking to someone else.. Talking about her NAIL appointment, to get her nails done, and how she'll have to wait another week if she can't get it done now, and how 'some retarded guy' (that would be me) is taking WAY too long changing her tire. At that point I had lowered the car and was putting the final twists on the nuts.... I was pissed... I get up, told her, 'alrighty, I'm done, you're ready to go' in a normal/polite manner. She says 'ok', comes back around, looks at it, then gets back into her car and starts it up... No 'thank you', nothing... So I stand there for a second just staring at her, she gets back out of her car,and she starts saying about how I took so long (~10 mins), and now I want to get paid for it (I didn't, I just wanted a thank you) and she begrudgingly holds out a few wrinkled 1$ bills... I told her I didn't want her money, that 'this retard' got paid pretty well, and all I was asking for was a thank you. She copped an attitude, got back in her car and left....
One thing I forgot to mention, The spare? regular donut spare..crappy black steel wheel. The 500$ aluminum Acura rim with the flat tire on it? Still on the side of the road, right next to me. The trunk carpet that was covering up the jack, and the jack itself... Yup, you guessed it, right next to me as well.... I made sure to dispose of those properly..heh...
New Acura rim with matching tire - $713.52
New trunk carpet - $185.39
New jack - $38.97
Realizing that being a snotty bitch just cost you way more than a 'Thank you' - Priceless
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