To ask whether you’ve ever regretted a kind gesture?

[Rainbowb]

I offered to pick up a friend’s daughter after school three times a week when she got a new job. I then discovered the child liked to jump on furniture, trash bedrooms and eat me out of house and home! Was two terms before I had the guts to pull the plug on it! Was wondering if any of you guys had ever tried to do something kind and wish you hadn’t bothered?!

@Lacucuracha as expected messaged to tell me she would be ready at 8.15 (no hello, how are you etc) and I replied that I can no longer take her to and from work but would see her at work at 8.45am. She replied saying it would have been nice if I let her know before now as she now has an issue of how she can get there. I replied saying it was always a temporary arrangement so I'm unsure where the confusion lay and I would see her tomorrow. No thanks for all the lifts so far or anything so just confirmed I have done the right thing!

Woohoo! I’m so happy to read that @lordalmighty ! Well done for sticking to your guns 😃

It’s good you have nipped it in the bud now before it got baked in.

She can get to work the way she did before!

Well done!

@lordalmighty
Hope you had a good day at work and didn’t suffer any grief from your
colleague 🤞

@lordalmighty good for you!

Yes! When DS was a baby, he had a particularly bad day after vaccinations. After hours of screaming he fell asleep and I sat down for a nice cup of tea. DDog then sees me sitting down and decides to bring some toys over for me to play with her. I feel quite guilty as she hadn’t got the attention she was used to. So, I drag my knackered arse off the sofa and get up to have a play with her. Within 10 seconds she jumps up into MY seat and makes herself very comfortable. Wee shite. Just as well she is cute

My parents bought their house via right to buy. They couldn’t sell it on because there were plans to demolish the house. So they purchased it for something like £5k but the council would buy it back for £30k when the houses got demolished. Less than a year after purchasing the house, my dad left my mum for another woman. My dad then demanded that I pay for his half of the mortgage, as his solicitor had said it was ridiculous that he was paying the mortgage when a fully grown up daughter was at home (I was 18, and earning £6k pa). My mum spoke to her solicitor who informed her that I had absolutely no obligation to pay my dads share of the mortgage (I already paid about £100 a month to my mum in “digs”). I told my dad that I wouldn’t be paying his share: he screamed at me down the phone, hung up and didn’t speak to me for a year.

After a year, he was involved in a bad accident and couldn’t work, so i reluctantly agreed to pay his share of the mortgage until his compensation came through, he would then repay me, and start paying it again. So fine.

A year after that, I was still paying his half. my mum heard through the grapevine that my dad and his new partner had just purchased a holiday home. She went absolutely ape, and called him demanding that he repaid me immediately and gave me back the money I had paid. He did put an envelope through the door with the money that night: but didn’t speak to me again for years.