Comments on: Irritable much?

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:54:56 +0000

Thanks for your nice words, ladies. But I’ve been thinking about this a lot since yesterday and I think it may only count as a truly good deed if you’re able to do it without resentment or without bitching about doing it. I also wonder if I would have stepped in and helped if I hadn’t personally been inconvenienced by it. Was it, then, an act of self-seeking rather than helping someone else? I dunno. Food for thought though, right?

By: jane

jane — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:46:12 +0000

My New Year’s resolution was simple this year. I am not going to drop the 40 pounds I have gained since I got married 15 years ago and had two children - one of whom was 10 pounds 6 ounces, I might add… I am not gonig to work out every day. I am not going to never eat sugar, never eat fat, or never have a drink

But my resolution is still to do the right thing any chance I can. Sometimes that is eating almonds instead of chips and sometimes it is standing up for someone else when they can’t or don’t know how to. As sad as it is that you had to stand up for that elderly man - thank goodnees ther are people like you out there who do. Ultra sensitive - No. Responsible and cosiderate - Yes!

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:59:03 +0000

Someone did help him out: you did. And while there will always be underpaid, unmotivated customer service people around, it seems to me that there will always be (or at least I hope there will always be) good people like yourself wandering about the earth who take the time to help someone in need. It may not be the person who is *supposed* to be helping you, but I’m betting there will be some kind soul out there to help you in those ‘incompetent’ moments, especially when you pay it forward like you did today.

PS. Love the Christmas cracker pics. We failed to get crackers this year and I was sad!