He Found Something To Complain About After His Life Was Saved
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“A fellow EMT told me this story. They were dispatched to some sort of general illness/weakness, 40’s male. They get there, and a minute or so into their initial assessment, the patient says ‘Oh man… I really don’t feel…’ and then slumps over and dies. Standard ACLS procedures ensue, and within a minute or so, the guy has a pulse back but is still unconscious (because, unlike the movies, cardiac arrest patients rarely wake right back up). Long story short, the guy dies a few more times on the way to the hospital but is revived each time. He never regains consciousness during the transport.
A few months later, the same crew is dispatched to the same residence, for the same patient (who lived, obviously), for an unrelated problem. Naturally, the patient thanked the guys who saved his life, right? Nope… he spent the whole ride complaining about how ‘they took the long way to the hospital last time, and they better not do that this time.'”
She Had No Idea Who She Was Talking To
“I am baby-faced, and, at the time of this story, was wearing just a regular black t-shirt and jeans.
When I was a Ph.D. student and about to start teaching a night class during the summer, I found a purse sitting in a hallway of my building. No one was around, as it was that dead period between regular classes and night classes. I searched around for about 20 minutes for the owner. Then, I gave up, grabbed the purse, and took it to the admin desk of the building. The receptionist who knew me greeted me, and I handed the purse to her while telling her the story. Afterward, we began talking about other things.
Not five minutes later, a middle-aged woman comes in from outside claiming she accidentally left her purse in the building when she stepped out to grab some food between her classes. The receptionist asked her for her name, and, when it was confirmed, handed her the purse. She then pointed me out as the person who rescued the bag. The woman turned on me with all the venom of an Australian genetic experiment. She screamed at me about how I was trying to steal the purse. She called me every name in the book and said I was lucky that she had class or she would call the campus police on me. I just shook my head through the whole thing. Obviously unsatisfied at my response, she stormed off.
A few minutes later, I walked into my class. Several students turned to look at me, including the woman. She said loudly and angrily, ‘What do you want now?’ I ignored her, walked to the front, set my stuff down, and said, ‘Good evening class, I’m your professor, and I may look like a kid to some of you and, as I was told a couple minutes ago, a thief to others. It’s fine if you believe the former, but, if you hold with the latter,’ and here I made eye contact with her, ‘I recommend changing majors. Possibly universities.’ As I continued on, she got up and left. Never saw her again.”
The Dog Was Probably Better Off Without It’s Owner
“I was walking my dog around my apartment complex (which has strict leash guidelines) when a cute little pup ran up to us and started playing with my dog. I looked around for an owner but there was no one around but I had to be at work soon so I started walking back. The little guy started following me and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get him to stay put so I brought him home.
The next day I made fliers to put up on the streets around the complex and took one to the apartment office to get it signed and dated to put on the community bulletin board. After two more days caring for this dog and asking everyone I saw on our walks if they recognized him, I found someone who did. He told me, with no small amount of disgust, that the dog’s family just let him out like a cat and let him in at night.
I took him to the apartment the guy told me he was from and was greeted by some ornery woman who started yelling at me to give them back their dog and that I better not be ‘some beaner gonna chop him up for tacos.’ (I’m Italian, and even at that why would I bring the dog back if I was going to cook him?) I told her that I had put up fliers and had been trying to find the owners for days but she gave me the finger and slammed the door in my face. Later that day I took down the fliers and taped them all to their door, probably pointless but it felt good.”
This Wife’s Ungrateful Reaction Was A First Step Toward Divorce
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“When I was married, my wife and I used to split the house cleaning duties every Saturday morning. I’d clean the downstairs and she’d clean the upstairs, easy enough. It made cleaning go by quickly and we could enjoy the rest of the weekend. Anyhow, one morning I got up early and cleaned the whole house and let her sleep in. I tried to be very quiet and the only thing I didn’t do was vacuum as I didn’t want the noise to wake her. She finally woke up and came downstairs and says hey, good morning and what are you doing? I said, ‘I cleaned the whole house so you could sleep in, all you have to do is run the vacuum!’ She went crazy. ‘Oh, ALL I have to do is run the vacuum, huh? Is that all I HAVE to do???’
She was mad because she thought I was telling her she had to vacuum the house. Rather than realizing I’d done everything else. I can understand that but she didn’t get over it for the rest of the day, she stayed mad at me about it even after admitting she realized what I was saying. As a side note, we’d been married about 8 years at the time and lived in our house for 5 years with the same Saturday routine.
Happily divorced for 4 years now.”
He Got Revenge For This Ungrateful Reaction
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“I found a cell phone on the ground after an outdoor concert. I tried looking for a ‘home’ number or anything that might be job-related but I didn’t find anything like that to call and notify him a nice stranger found his phone and he could come to pick it up from me. So, I called the most recent couple guys on the top of his call log. Turns out he was with one of them. So, I let him know he can pick it up at this gas station that would hold it for them and I let him know I personally am friends with the employees and they’ll keep it safe for him.
He starts yelling at me for ‘being a turd’ and I calmly tell him he can pick it up at the gas station as I was leaving to go camping the next morning. Then the stuff he was saying was getting ruder and threatening. I no longer want to help this guy. Based on the names he was calling me over the phone, it was a safe assumption to say him and his friends are a little homophobic.
I decided to send a text every single one of his friends ‘I’ve always wanted to tell you, you have the most beautiful eyes.’ Most of his male contacts responded with things like ‘What happened to you? Don’t text me that gay stuff,’ sort of answers. EVERY female responded either ‘Who is this?’ or along the lines of ‘That’s so sweet… but I changed phones who is this?’ Poor guy isn’t too good with the ladies apparently since he currently talked to none of the women… just had their numbers. Now, his phone is sitting at the bottom of a lake where I went camping the next day.”
This Act Of Kindness Got Them Sued
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“My friend and I were once walking through our local shopping center and a woman collapsed in front of us. For a bit of background, we were both in the Sea Cadets and were both fully qualified water instructors, which means we took an extensive First Aid course. We proceeded to help her and after we decided that she was in some serious trouble, started full CPR, including chest compressions. We were both 17, so we were quite close to losing our minds in fear.
People came and started to watch and ask if they could help, but we were always told unless someone comes forward and claims to be a doctor, keep going yourself until the ambulance arrives or you physically can’t carry on.
We did this for about 25 minutes and paramedics arrived. We later found out it took so long because the ambulance for the center had already responded to an emergency and this shopping center is quite far away from any hospital.
Anyway, they turned up, took over and got her out of there within 2-3 minutes. As they were leaving one of them tapped us on the back and said, ‘good job lads!’ and dashed after his colleagues. The local coffee shop guy brought us a cup of tea and sat us down because we were shaking from the whole experience.
Anyway, fast forward six months and I receive a letter. It’s a law firm stating that I have to be in small claims court on this date and time because I’ve been accused of Grievous Bodily Harm. I think it’s some kind of scam, so I ignore it. Then my friend calls me because he too has a letter. Guess what he’s been accused of?
We call the law firm and they confirm it as a fact, give us information on the accuser and surprise, surprise, the woman whose heart stopped beating sued us for breaking 3 of her ribs during the CPR.
We actually had to go to court. Then thankfully, the judge turned on her and threw the case out in seconds. Why, you ask? Because our solicitor managed to track down the paramedics who arrived and the coffee shop owner as legal witnesses, who obviously were on our side. The judge then ruled she had to cover ALL of our legal fees.
To this day, she has never thanked us for keeping it together long enough to save her life.”
She Was Just Trying To Not Get Fired
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“I work at a local Dunkin’ Donuts at home. There were currently coupons in the paper that had things like 99 cent coffees and bagels with cream cheese. A lady comes around the drive-thru ordering a bagel with BUTTER, and she has the 99c coupon ($1.05 with tax). I tell her that the coupon could technically only be used for bagels with cream cheese, but a bagel with butter was only $1.16 (a mere 11 cents more). She proceeds to tell me that’s ridiculous, she wants to use the coupon. So I told her I’ll give her the cream cheese on the side for myself so I didn’t get in trouble and for her in case she decides she wants to try it.
So, she gets to the window and asks for ‘the idiot who took her order,’ (I was nothing but polite). I go over and talk to her, and she proceeds to take the cream cheese out of her bag and throw it at me through the window and tells me it’s trash, she’s calling my manager for wasting product, etc. I just tell her the coupon was for a bagel with cream cheese so I didn’t want to get in trouble. She then asks my name, so I tell her. I didn’t have a name tag on because it was washed in the washer, and she starts screaming about how I’m not in proper uniform. Then she finally leaves.
Cue three hours later and my manager is now at my store and calls me into the back. She asks about what happened and told me a woman called complaining about me. I explain to her what went down and got off with nothing.
A couple days later she comes through again and I just look through the window at her (as I was making her bagel with butter she ordered that she used the coupon for since my manager just said to take them without argument) and she calls again saying I pointed and laughed at her. My boss was there that day (someone I had known since I was a child) and when the lady called, she referred to me as ‘that little twirp’ and a few other choice names. My manager said that she was out of line referring to her employees that way and if she was going to continue to be disrespectful to not come back and that one customer’s lack of business won’t cause the company to go bankrupt.
I didn’t see her for a while but then she started coming through for a week straight and always gave me dirty looks or would yell ‘SHUT UP’ for NO REASON. One day I was fed up with it so I yelled back ‘I don’t know why you’re so mean to me!’ She later called and said I told her ‘you’ll be sorry you were so mean to me.’ What a crazy lady.
After that, she started going to another store because everyone hated her for what a scumbag she was to me, who is nothing but polite to customers (unless they disrespect me first).”
He Helped Out Their Kid and Then Got Called A “Monster”
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“While I was in uniform waiting for my flight home from training across the country, a little boy, maybe about three or four, walked up to me crying and asked if I was GI Joe and if I could help him find his parents. Of course, I agreed, hoisted him up onto my shoulders so he might be able to spot them, and walked around the terminal towards the help desk asking him what color shirts his parents were wearing, if he knew where they all were traveling to, etc. just to hopefully identify and find them faster. I took the velcro US ARMY tab off my uniform and gave it to him to keep (kids love those things for some reason) and show off to his friends when he got home. He eventually stopped crying because he knew he was going to find his parents with GI Joe on his side. When we did find them (at the help desk, nonetheless), his mom roughly snatched him from my shoulders and the father loudly accused me of trying to kidnap and violate his son. They were making a general scene, causing people to stop and look at a pair of parents accusing me of essentially being a monster. Basically, I was being belittled and made to feel like nothing and the biggest scumbag ever.
But, as the parents were storming off with the boy, he turned around, smiled, said ‘Thanks for helping me find my Mom and Dad!’ and waved the velcro tab in his hand, so I felt a little better and people who witnessed what had just happened understood I was just trying to help the kid.”
The Hot Pup
“Last Saturday, it was a really nice, hot day and a friend and I were catching up at a café when we saw a madly panting husky pup tied up outside a store in the sun. We waited for 20 minutes to see if the owner would come out, but the dog was still in the sun, panting and drooling. I grabbed a water bowl out of my car (I keep one in there for my dog when we take her to the beach or whatever) and poured some bottled water in it. I did a quick temperament test to see if the dog was aggressive, and nope. He was really gentle and thankful for the water.
As I’m taking the water bowl away, out comes the owner and says ‘You should NEVER approach dogs that you don’t know.’ She started going on a rant to me about how dogs are aggressive and they descended from wolves and blah blah blah. She ended the rant with, ‘Oh, and I’m taking my dog to get checked. If you’ve poisoned him, there are cameras around here’ as she walks away. All I could think of saying is “Oh cool.'”
He Double Checked That This Good Samaritan Didn’t Steal
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“I was leaving a restaurant I worked delivery at on a run when I noticed a rather fat wallet on the ground in the carry out only parking spot. The owner of said wallet was loaded. There was at least $500 cash and a number of high-end credit cards including that metal discover card with a really high spending limit. Anyway, the first thing I looked for was the ID so I could get an address. Since I was a delivery driver I knew the town pretty well and was going to deliver the wallet to the guy’s house as I was on my last run for the night.
As I was pulling out of the parking lot I see a pretty nice BMW come barreling into the lot, tires screeching and just driving like an idiot, only to come to a stop at the parking spot I found the wallet at. So I immediately turned around and drove up to the guy and asked if the wallet was his, holding it out. He glared at me, snatched it out of my hand and immediately opened it and started checking the cards and counting the money.
I was kind of offended that he would do that right in front of me but kinda understood why. I mean, he had a lot of credit cards and a lot of cash. But I had a delivery to make so I was about to get into my car and drive off and he told me to wait. At this point, I was hoping he would give me a $20 or something as a reward but instead, he finishes counting and says ‘Ok good, it’s all there, you can go now,’ and he hopped in his car and drove away. You better believe I was annoyed. I wasn’t mad that I didn’t get a reward, I didn’t care about that. But, I was annoyed at the fact that he wanted me to wait as if he was going to do something had I taken anything from the wallet, which I had 0 intention of doing.”
Everyone Was Shocked By How This Woman Treated The Bus Driver
“One day last summer, I was getting on the bus. A fairly young woman (probably about 30) who is in a wheelchair was getting on too. But the entire time she was screaming at the bus driver and cursing at him, even though all he was trying to do was help her get on the bus safely. First, she kept yelling that she couldn’t get on where he stopped (which was false, because she did get on without him moving the bus). After she called him an idiot while he was helping her, the bus driver calmly said, ‘Ma’am, I’m sorry if you’re having a bad day, but I’m just trying to help.’ She proceeded to curse at him more. There were several young children on the bus, and everyone was giving her dirty looks for being so rude to someone who had been nothing but helpful and polite the entire time. She then didn’t bother to tell him what stop she needed or push the stop button (which was located next to her) but called the driver a ‘freaking idiot’ after he passed the stop she wanted anyway. After she got off the bus, everyone sighed in relief and shared a moment of confusion.
Every time I see this woman now I think she’s a total twerp, even if she’s acting nice at the time.”
He Got No Appreciation For Her Difficult Order
“I was at a Chinese fast take out place waiting for my order. A woman goes up and orders a very very weird precise assortment of items. Like a Wonton Soup with a specific number of wontons, asking for rice and chicken to be separated, etc. Fine, she’s high maintenance. I scoff at the inflexibility of her and go back to minding my own business. Ten minutes later, she goes up to the clerk again and says, ‘Oh I forgot, could I have the sauce on my rice instead?’. The guy says ‘Sure, but it could make a huge mess because the rice comes in its own separate container’. The vegetables/meat is in its own box while the rice is in the other, she ordered a large, this is how it’s done. He says he can put the sauce in its own container on the side instead because putting it in the rice container is a terrible idea and will spill everywhere and make a mess. She yells at the dude, ‘THIS PLACE SUCKS, YOU GUYS CAN’T EVEN GET ONE ORDER RIGHT, FORGET THIS PLACE’ and storms out like she just had her very rights as a person violated.”