I Helped An Elderly Gent Yesterday.

[icyfroth]

In the Supermarked. I was doing some fruit and veg shopping and noticed him struggling to open the produce bag. I've struggled with them before so I wondered if I should help him or would he feel I was being patronised.

As I walked past him I jokingly said, "you have to spit on it"! I always wet my thumb and index finger to open the bags.

We laughed and he went pretendy "ptui ptui" on the bag.

I went around and got some tomatoes and deliberated whether I should get the lemons from USA or limes from Aus.

When I looked up he was still patiently struggling with the bag.

I felt bad then about the flippant spit comment and said "can I help you"? He gave me the bag and I showed him how I lick my thumb and finger and the bag opened straight away! (It's not always that easy).

Anyway we had shared another laugh about it and went about our shopping.

I had to get the fruit and veg guy to help me with mine once.

[georgiajake2010]

Joz - I think charitable things need to be kept quiet as the whole point is to do something nice without asking for anything in return

[kengillard]

Do we still have an ignore button?

[georgiajake2010]

Ooooooh - are other peoples opinions not allowed?

[silverfaun]

I wish.

[georgiajake2010]

Sorry, I will step back and let the whole "yay, I helped someone old" keep going. My sincerest apologises

[silverfaun]

That elderly gentleman probably fought  for our country.  Well done Icy for your kindness. To all those who thought Icy did the wrong thing helping a senior citizen & posting a nice little story on here, just remember,  everybody gets old & also there's Karma.

[the_hawk*]

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@georgiajake2010 wrote:
Sorry, I will step back and let the whole "yay, I helped someone old" keep going. My sincerest apologises

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I think you are seeing it all wrong, Icy did a good deed and felt good about it and sharded it with the good people here that she considers friends, simple as really and only a debbie downer would see it any other way.

[georgiajake2010]

Well I helped an old couple a few weeks ago because they were flustered and didn't understand the whole self service register and I stood there working it out for them with a screaming three year old at my side. My main forum is facebook where my entire family, friends and colleagues are and I didn't post it. I truly don't understand the reason why one should

[georgiajake2010]

A good deed is a good deed - don't do it if you want appraisals after the fact

[georgiajake2010]

I just read your comment Hawk - that's good that she felt good about it and wanted to share - but the fact is, if she did good deeds all the time then it would the norm and then she wouldn't feel the need to post it