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?!

[lordalmighty]

@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!

[Lacucuracha]

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!

[Matrottinetteelectrique]

Well done!

[Lavender2018]

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

[Noshowlomo]

@lordalmighty good for you!

[MsScoot]

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

[HollyGoLight]

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.