When was the last time you did something nice for somebody?

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..... and what was it?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

I picked my husband up from work even though I was very angry at him.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

I made an ENORMOUS vegetable curry for myself and housemate Richard last night. The poor chap had been up all Sunday night trying to woo (unsucessfully, I do believe) and he needed cheering up. I do make the curries in the world* and I thought that making curry would be aq nice thing to do. And it was. Fringe bonus is that I get to eat it too, and he's having the left-overs for lunch today, so double niceness on my part.

* May not actually be true.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I helped an old albanian man home with his shopping on friday

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

i stopped the traffic for an old lady to cross the road a while ago, not very original but it made her smile.

I try to do nice things for people all the time. Like tonight for instance, I’m doing a paste bake for my housemate. She won’t know til she gets home.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

It depends. If you did cartwheels to stop the traffic, that'd been original.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

i'd have broken my neck and she'd have been hit by a bus.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't do nice things for people. I am not a nice person. Ha!

(Unless buying drinks for skint people counts in which case I've been the nicest person in the world recently, tee hee.)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

I made myself a sandwich.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

I do make the curries in the world*

All the curries? That is nice

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

sorry

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

not for a while.

given up on being nice.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

blimey I can't believe I'm having to rack my brains for an answer to this one, usually I'm sickly nice to everyone.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

I did a toast run to the cafe for people in my office.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Listing the nice things you do for people doesn't sound nice.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Yes it does! I like hearing about good things, and it inspires me to be nicer too.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

I dipped the old albanian man's pockets

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

That's more like it.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

cozen = fagin

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

I’m doing a paste bake for my housemate.

What does this mean?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

It's like that movie....American Bake

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

i ran around a festival for about an hour trying to find my friend's mobile phone, which she'd managed to leave at one of the bars. remarkably, i actually found it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

what ken said.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I rang Bank of Ireland and ensured a customer who left his Laser card in our shop was informed of this. I guess that was sort of standard thing to do rather than nice.

Before that, I guess today I emailed my brothers and sisters to suggest buying something for our housekeeper/babysitter/part time bringer upper, Margaret, who is finishing coming into our house to help my mum today after almost 30 years!

Kind of boggling to think about it really! My mum and her were both in floods of tears this morning!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

i gave my friend all my pot bcuz i can't smoke anymore. it may be the only nice thing i've ever done.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

There. I just gave my colleague a pack of gum. that was nice.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I saved three bananas until they went brown so I could make banana bread for the office, but then they went mouldy so I didn't, but it's the thought that counts!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

aw that's doubly kind - you wanted to make them banana bread, and then when the banana went mouldy you saved them from getting ill from eating the mould by not making the banana bread!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost i have one now!!

today i posted a post on ilx that saved marcello many keystrokes on the keyboard.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

not that many.

being nice means people shit on you, take you for a soft touch, rip you off. so for the time being, fuck nice.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I volunteered to do some extra stuff for the finance team because they are missing half their stuff. That was nice, even if it didn't work.

And then one of the finance team gave me a slice of cake! That was nice, too.

Who says being nice doesn't pay?

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Half their STAFF, ha ha.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I say being nice doesn't pay. Being nice means they try to cut your hours/pay because they assume you won't argue.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I didn't stand up and yell at those two noisy fuckers just outside of my office. I let them keep talking, even though it made it hard for me to read ILX.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Being nice != being a sap.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

I have an irrational hatred of people being conspicuously nice or trying to ingratiate themselves 'cause it reminds me of my mother, who I hate, so actually, it's probably not irrational at all.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

There's a big difference between people who are ingratiatingly nice (and usually go out of their way to prove LOOK HOW NICE I AM BEING, I'M BEING NICE TO YOU, DO YOU SEE!??!?! - before storming off in a total huff because you have not shown the appropriate gratitude for their niceness) and people who are genuinely nice because they can see you need a little helping hand.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

People who crow about being nice aren't terribly nice either.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Altruism is often the most selfish part of one's personality.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, Richard Dawkins and the ESS to thread...

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

garu g's gran must have been terribly nice

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

the last kindness to strangers thing i did was in the home depot parking lot about a week ago. some old man was trying to get 50 pound bags of sand/concrete mix into his carriage, which had fallen over and it was a mess. i helped him get his shit together.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Of course, you're not referring to his herniated bowels from trying to lift 50 pound bags of sand & cement.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

This morning I FedEx'ed a snare drum, strap, sticks, drum key, stand, and cymbal to the drummer of my favorite band (who is homeless and instrumentless from Katrina) so that he/they can play a gig in Memphis tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember the last time I did anything really out-of-my-way nice for anyone. That's not that great is it?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I helped some map-studying, Churmann tourists find their destination this morning on my way to work.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I showed up at my parents' house and helped my dad tear up their kitchen. He wasn't expecting, and was probably doubly surprised since I was such an ingrate when I actually lived with them.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I bought my mom $70 worth of plants that she was getting for a local synagogue, but that was just to soften her up for the news that I'm marrying a goy, so I don't think it counts.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

A shiksa, no, Jordan?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

"Being nice != being a sap."

OTM. Especially being nice in a relationship; playaz take advantage of girls who do nice things. Better to be cold-blooded, lazy and cruel, haha.

― jxnx (jxnx), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

You're right, total shiksa.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I will have to consult past lives to find an answer to this question.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I think I called someone a shiksa while drunk the other day. I can't remember who or why. The weekend was a blur.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I put a penny in the leave-a-penny-take-a-penny tray.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

My gf's grandafther always thought shiksa meant 'maid' since that's what his parents had always called theirs.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, Jaymc, I'm sure you've done something nicer than that recently.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

It kind of blows my mind that "being nice" seems like, from the thread title, some special occasion. I would hope that people are decent to each other as a matter of course. When exactly did the world become so mean? Oh, wait, that would be 1980.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I bet a lot of the UKers here would date it to May 1979 :-)

I can't remember any times recently that I've been specifically nice to someone; but I try to treat people decently all the time anyway.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's some kind of special occasion. (Except for when I'm nice and let people go ahead of me on the bus - that requires a super good mood.) But when you live in a city this size, you do sometimes have to be reminded of the idea of Being Nice. Because it's not something that comes naturally any more - or rather, it's something that gets eroded quite quickly.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

I sent a couple of relatives some CDs in a package.

I don't like it when people make the act of being nice meaningless by only doing it so all the boys and girls fancy them and support them , and doing it so obsessively that people don't think to scrutinise them further. Sometimes tbe ones that appear the most nice are the most two-faced. For them, it's all about keeping the most people sweet, making it easy to gather the most information, and enabling them to be the biggest gossip. Real niceness is either anonymous or among friends. Not overt. A grumpy git who helps you install your washing machine is better than a bubbly grinner.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

I sent Emma a nice picture of some ducks and I wrote a press release for someone as a favour.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

I looked up non-existent Japanese films on the BFI website for a passing mentalist yesterday. I am sort of default nice I would like to hope.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

I bought my friend a ticket to the "Taste of Chaos" tour in Glasgow in November cos he said he'd have to give it a miss as he couldn't afford it. When I told him I'd got him a ticket he asked how I got it, and I said I'd bought it for him to do something nice. He didn't believe me.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I *didn't* telephone Freeserve this lunchtime and give them a mouthful over their useless website that has now crashed our internet connection.

(coz we're sacking them off and getting broadband instead)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Real niceness is either anonymous or among friends. Not overt. A grumpy git who helps you install your washing machine is better than a bubbly grinner.

the guy who helped me install my washing machine was a bubbly grinner, i think he's a winner

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

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