Popsi
26-07-2004, 10:06 PM
So what is it? What is the best thing you’ve done for someone else - something that made you feel all warm and gooey inside?
I’ve got three that stand out really.
One is quite simple I stayed up till gone 3am helping my friend with her psychology project that was due in the next day. I didn’t have too, just she asked for my help so I did it.
Also when my other friends idiot of a boyfriend decided it would be a good idea to come over at midnight with his parents and tell her that a) he'd been cheating on her and b) he was an 'alcoholic' (inverted commas because it was a lame excuse for his behaviour) I stayed up with her till the wee small hours just consoling her. Looking back I dont know why I bothered because she didnt take any advice and is still with him, but at the time it made me feel good that I could help, yet bad for her.
Anyway the nicest thing I think would have to be to do with my friend James. He’s basically the biggest Bruce Springsteen in the world and as he’s got all the cds available he’s started to collect the records now too.
Anyway I went to New York in April and went into this place called second hand rose which sells old records. I remembered James was collecting them and had a look for some Springsteen ones. I started talking to the lady who owns the store and she pointed a born in the USA single out to me that would be great for him. Not only was it the biggest Springsteen hit but also its a special edition one because it was a single that was given out to the radios to play and wasn’t available on general release. This means that is worth up to about £100 and is very limited in how many are available.
I bought this record for James (he didn’t ask me to get one I just thought it would be nice for him to have one because he’s a lovely guy) and gave it to him when the new term started at university.
Well his face when he saw it was worth more than I could ever pay for the record. He was literally speechless and pretty much just mumbled thanks then just stared at the record for a while. This was more of a reaction than I was expecting because all his flatmates were there and he’s a man of few words anyway.
I went back up to my flat and about 5 minutes later he walks into the kitchen and says he’s coming up to apologise about earlier and that he was to shocked to talk and that basically its the best gift anyone has ever given him and that he’s never met anyone before who would do something like that for him. He was so sweet and me and my flatmate Jess who was there basically just melted when he was talking. :D
That pretty much made me feel good that I could make someone so happy by what I’d done. He’s had a lot of crap in his life and to know that he was really properly happy for a while made me feel great. And I had a gorgeous text from him in the summer after telling me that he was listening to the record with a beer and it was the nicest thing anyone had every done for him.
Well pretty much my longest post ever! Good way to start off the forum! :D
So what are your stories anyone?
I’ve got three that stand out really.
One is quite simple I stayed up till gone 3am helping my friend with her psychology project that was due in the next day. I didn’t have too, just she asked for my help so I did it.
Also when my other friends idiot of a boyfriend decided it would be a good idea to come over at midnight with his parents and tell her that a) he'd been cheating on her and b) he was an 'alcoholic' (inverted commas because it was a lame excuse for his behaviour) I stayed up with her till the wee small hours just consoling her. Looking back I dont know why I bothered because she didnt take any advice and is still with him, but at the time it made me feel good that I could help, yet bad for her.
Anyway the nicest thing I think would have to be to do with my friend James. He’s basically the biggest Bruce Springsteen in the world and as he’s got all the cds available he’s started to collect the records now too.
Anyway I went to New York in April and went into this place called second hand rose which sells old records. I remembered James was collecting them and had a look for some Springsteen ones. I started talking to the lady who owns the store and she pointed a born in the USA single out to me that would be great for him. Not only was it the biggest Springsteen hit but also its a special edition one because it was a single that was given out to the radios to play and wasn’t available on general release. This means that is worth up to about £100 and is very limited in how many are available.
I bought this record for James (he didn’t ask me to get one I just thought it would be nice for him to have one because he’s a lovely guy) and gave it to him when the new term started at university.
Well his face when he saw it was worth more than I could ever pay for the record. He was literally speechless and pretty much just mumbled thanks then just stared at the record for a while. This was more of a reaction than I was expecting because all his flatmates were there and he’s a man of few words anyway.
I went back up to my flat and about 5 minutes later he walks into the kitchen and says he’s coming up to apologise about earlier and that he was to shocked to talk and that basically its the best gift anyone has ever given him and that he’s never met anyone before who would do something like that for him. He was so sweet and me and my flatmate Jess who was there basically just melted when he was talking. :D
That pretty much made me feel good that I could make someone so happy by what I’d done. He’s had a lot of crap in his life and to know that he was really properly happy for a while made me feel great. And I had a gorgeous text from him in the summer after telling me that he was listening to the record with a beer and it was the nicest thing anyone had every done for him.
Well pretty much my longest post ever! Good way to start off the forum! :D
So what are your stories anyone?