Today, I busted my ass to help this old lady move her stuff because she was going to a nursing home. I was told I would get paid. When I finished four hours later the lady took me to a room and told me to pick out anything in her little goody bag. I got a race car as payment. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I helped an elderly lady put a bookshelf in her car. She then thanked me by hitting me with her car as she drove out of the parking lot. FML
Today, after a weekend of helping my sister-in-law move out of our house, vacuuming and mopping her bedroom and bathroom for her, scrubbing her walls and cleaning her shower, transporting her furniture, and getting her carpet professionally cleaned, to cover costs she offered me $14. FML
Today, the old lady I've been taking care of and running errands for died. She hadn't paid me yet. FML
Today, I got a $20 tip from an old lady I delivered pizza to. Ecstatic, I walked back to my car where there was a $30 parking fine waiting for me. FML
Today, while buying paint, I began to help an elderly woman working to lift some heavy boxes. She told me what a nice young lady I was. Then her boss came over, screamed at her for being lazy and fired her. She cried. So did I. FML
Today, while I was delivering pizza in the torrential downpour, I waited 5 minutes in the pouring rain for an old lady to dig 20 bucks out of her purse. Her total was $19.99. She told me to keep the change and make lots of money. FML
Today, I helped a lady carry her grocery bags to her car. She was so grateful that she offered me a tip. I refused, but she insisted. When I finally took it, I looked at the bill to see she'd given me $1. I smiled and said thank you, but she looked at me like I’d just robbed her. FML
Today, I decided I'd sell an old motorcycle I had, in order to help with the bills. I had to be at work at the time when an interested buyer was to show up, so I entrusted my mother with the exchange as she's unemployed. Mom pocketed the money and bought a new freezer for her house, and won't pay me back. FML
Today, I was working at the grocery store and a very old woman wanted to give me a tip for bagging her groceries. She slid a quarter into my pocket against my thigh as deep down as she could get it, then she gave me a smile and a wink. I was groped by a grandma. FML
Today, I decided to cover a coworker's closing shift because she felt sick. My boss even gave me a $10 gift card for doing it. I felt good about it, until I walked outside and found that my car had been stolen. FML
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thunderbrave 0
vroom vroom
redbluegreen 41
And there was absolutely no way you could turn this story to attract girls?
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GeneralBE 0
the old lady is probably reading this post laughing her arse off because she had a $50 in her pocket but knew you couldn't ask argue with an old lady for money. (at least that's the entertaining version)
Manpersonguythin 0
LUCKY! That is ******* SWEET
alewiina 0
It would be different if she hadn't said he'd get paid, and THEN he expected something... but if he was told he was going to be paid, then he should have been. Its a principle thing.
thuryn 2
#155 / GeneralBE: Here's another version that made me laugh when I thought of it. Cue "Billy Madison" with the old lady playing the part of Steve Buscemi's character. She hobbles over to a list of names marked "People to Kill" and mutters to herself, "Well, he was a nice boy after all!" and crosses his name off before opening a cupboard and letting out 30 cats and loving on them in vaguely disturbing ways. ^_^
rachelbrianna25 0
woah that sucks. i paid my friends to help me carry up some furniture to my apartment, actual cash. = ( awh. poor lil lady.
matters511 0
That is so cute
naysay91 0
#131/thuryn, I know that "paid" is the more correct and accepted form, so do not try to correct me (if that's what you were doing). I never see anyone typing or writing out "payed." My point was that there is no point for these other people to call the OP stupid and say that they should have said "payed" instead of "paid." Either way it doesn't matter, both words have the same exact definition word-for-word.
barc0001 1
Don't be a dick. You ever been to a nursing home? It's like descending into the first layer of hell. You can't take care of yourself any more, no real privacy, and a lot of decisions about your life are no longer yours to make. The least you can do is help a little old lady who's having to go into that environment without expecting a big reward. Besides it couldn't have been that much to move, those places don't let their "guests" have more than a small volume of personal items.
thuryn 2
#160 / naysay91: Stop defending a stupid mistake. It just makes you look stupid by association.
naysay91 0
Thuryn, you're the one making yourself look stupid as I did not defend a mistake. I pointed out the mistake of others telling the original poster that they were wrong, when indeed they were not. You're an idiot if you don't understand something as simple as that.