Conference rdvax::grateful

    I let someone pull out of a street in front of me..I didn't have to,
    but...and they didn't wave a thanx back...oh well...
    
    later, Karen is going to do a good deed and warn our neighbors below us
    that there is gonna be some music coming from our place tonight, it
    won't be loud, but I'll be practicng with the guit man from my band...
    I consider this a good deed, cuz these folks called us last night at
    8:45 and asked "how long is that noise gonna go on?"  the noise was our
    vacuum cleaner...sheeeesh, complain about loud music, but a f'n vacuum
    cleaner is too loud?  the guy says "it sounds like you're sanding your
    floors up there"  unreal

>    I consider this a good deed, cuz these folks called us last night at
>    8:45 and asked "how long is that noise gonna go on?"  the noise was our

    I wish my neighbors would do that.  Never have they complained
    (I think I'm pretty quiet) and last week they called the police!
    (I was playing a record at moderate volume at 10:15 p.m.).

    My good deed was to leave them a note telling them my phone #
    and inviting them to call me or knock on the door if I'm bothering
    them.  

	this morning i pre-sorted the recyclables.
	
	we have curb-side p/u every other week (aside: my neighbors on
	either side never have anything to recycle ??  ;-)
	
	we toss: glass, newsprint, aluminum, some plastic in a green tote
	for 2 weeks, and the day it's collected i sort it and put all the
	like stuff together so the dude picking it up can toss it in the
	truck easier/faster.
	
	it's a small thing.
	

    small things count!!!  :^)
    
    

	not today, but yesterday I brought a frozen turkey and some
	other stuff to the local food pantry - which will be putting
	together the fixings for Thanksgiving dinners to distribute
	to needy families in the area for free.

	Debess

    ...verry nice Debess....the wife & I get a bag o' groceries for the
    local food drive together (the local drive has filled a trailer truck
    the last three years!!) & drop them off at this drive....
    
    "Business!!!"
    
    "Business!!!"
    
    "Mankind was my Business! The Common welfare was my business!"
    
    (tip o' the hat to Mr. Dickens)
    
    macky

    didn't do anything nice for anyone today...  in fact, it seems i even
    made a couple of people think and i shudder at the prospects of cosmic
    backlash that i may have brought down upon myself!  :^)
    
    however, i did do something nice friday...  i went to the registry and
    the insurance company for a friend who had to work and couldn't go
    herself...  i wonder if standing in line at those two places bought me
    enough cosmic brownie points to make up for making people think today?
    :^)
    
    					da ve

    good deadhead deed for today...  clearing snow off someone else's
    car this morning...  :^)

Picked up somebody hitching home from work yesterday (he had
signs and everything, a professional), and took him twice as
far as he asked.  In the right direction, even...

Dan

    
    re "in the right direction, even..."
    
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    				da ve

    
    I've always wondered...
    
    If you went out to the end of the active runway at a small general
    avaiation airport (say nashuer..) and tried to hitch, would you get a
    ride?
    
    I think I'd give someone a ride if I saw 'em hitching...that would just
    be too cool to pass up.

    i suspect you'd get a ride, but not in an airplane...  more likely in
    one of those special limos with the flashing lights... :^)
    
    				da ve

    
    I don't like those. Their bracelets are ugly and they hurt.
    

             
    Someone approached me looking for a jump start.  No big deal...well, I
    thought it wasn't gonna be.
    
    Got to his car and the hood wouldn't raise.  I spent 30 minutes thawing 
    out the hood mechanism with my lighter until it opened.  It was beyond 
    cold last night.  Anyhow, the car finally got started and the guy was real
    pleased.         

    
    well...  the felix replies reminded me...
    
    during the last big storm, my bro ti me and me decided to help this old
    guy and his wife get unstuck...  he just brought his wife home from the
    hospital...  he had a heart condition himself...  decided to try and
    make it in the driveway without shoveling...  hey, dont let a 3 foot
    snow drift stop you!
    
    anyway, this guy was about 1/4 of a car length into the
    driveway...wheels off the pavement...  took us almost an hour to dig
    him out and had another guy help us push them back into the street...
    he wouldn't let us help him get his wife inside...  he wouldn't let us
    shovel out a space large enough to get his car in off the street...
    
    so we got back at him by not letting him pay us for digging him out...
    :^)  i told him if he really wanted to pay me back he could help someone
    else's Mom and Dad when they were stuck somewhere...  his wife, for
    some reason, got real irritated...  i guess she didn't get it...
    for a minute, i thought the old guy was going to cry...  but then he
    just shook my hand, thanked me again, and said "i'll see what i can
    do..."
    
    and i do believe he will...
    
    					da ve

    %^)