22 Comments on We Need Some Uplifting Stories – Here’s One
You call that uplifting? You already did the recycling story today.
I jest, great story. Humanity is still alive. Barely.
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That’s a fine story, there are nice people out there. They are not TSA agents though. One question, they must have been past security themselves, how did they get the box from the garbage can to anyplace that they could do something with it?
Perhaps if the woman had worn a hijab she could have brought it on the plane.
“I’m from the government and I am here to help.”
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@Bad_Brad – TL/DR – I am, with difficulty, recovering from an afternoon spent replacing all the innards of a toilet tank. And it is well-known within my family that every time I try to commit plumbing, it all turns to shit. What I’m having a hard time getting over is that the instructions were clear and logical, the parts properly designed, and it all went without a hitch. But it has left me somewhat whimsically twisted. I’ll be OK tomorrow…as long as there’s no water in the pan I left under the water supply fitting.
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Uncle Al
Yea well just sayen pal. NEVER READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They will fuck you up. It’s happened to me. Mainly due to my wife, that thinks instructions should be read. Fxcking idiot. LOL.
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Not as fancy a story as this, but a couple weeks ago I was helped by a good person. About a half hour after using my credit card to get gas, I got a call from my bank to inform me that someone had found my card and destroyed it. I’d not even realized at that point that I’d lost the card. The person didn’t leave his name, but I remain very appreciative that a stranger went the extra mile to call my bank and destroy the card. Also feeling fortunate that a less-good person didn’t find it and take it shopping. There are many good people around us.
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Bad_Brad – O/T – The trick is to be able to read the instructions and be able to figure out what the writer meant as distinct from what he wrote. It helps if they were written originally in English and not translated from Klingon or, worse, Chinese.
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Uncle Al
Good luck getting your stuff flowing. Long day brother. Good night.
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Uncle Al, you got me before I was hitting the pillow. Replace entire toilet, wax gasket, bolt it down. Install common sense plumbing. Take a shit and flush. works every time. Unless the turds end up in your dishwasher. That ain’t good. Call plumber.
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Easy peezy, dress the wife in a burka and you can breeze right past the TSA with Christmas gifts for the entire fam. No questions asked.
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Yep. Good people are out there. Here’s my restored faith in people story:
About 37 years ago my wife and I were on vacation at Atlantic Beach, N.C. Somehow unnoticed I managed to drag a $100 bill out of my pocket and lose it when I went inside a gas station to pay for the fuel. I discovered the loss thirty minutes later at a restaurant. All I could think to do is return to the gas station and ask if anyone had found it and turned it in. We both figured, that’s not going to happen, somewhere someone is still smiling about their lucky find.
Big surprise. Two people did the right thing. Someone had found it outside by the gas pump, had taken it inside and had given it to the station clerk. Who returned it to me. My lucky day as my income at that time was nothing to brag about. Two people had the opportunity to just put the cash in their pocket and keep quiet about it, but they did not. And we did not have to cut two days off our planned stay at the beach.
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Fake news.
The brave TSA agent correctly discerned the old white man as a statistically probable threat to the safety of the plane and made him dispose of his terror weapon. And you say big government doesn’t work?
The black woman obviously is not authentically black.
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As if we needed yet another reason not to fly.
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To BB
That’s odd…my wife didn’t come with instructions….
p.s. (and O/T) since you were saying you were going to “give up on Q” if nothing big happened in July, I thought this – particularly the disinformation part – might interest you: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1016097462107291649.html
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What triggered the TSA, plastic snow?
Burner
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Thanks for that link Czar. It is easy to get discouraged when lie after lie is pushed by the MSM.
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@KMM: I unknowingly dropped my debit card at the gas station once. I didn’t even realize it was missing until my bank called me to say someone had turned it in! The nearest branch was about a mile down the freeway, so this wonderful person went out of his/her way to make sure I got it back. Blown away.
You call that uplifting? You already did the recycling story today.
I jest, great story. Humanity is still alive. Barely.
That’s a fine story, there are nice people out there. They are not TSA agents though. One question, they must have been past security themselves, how did they get the box from the garbage can to anyplace that they could do something with it?
Nice story. Annoying delivery.
*sniff*
*sniff*
*sniff-sniff*
*SSNNNNRRRRRKKKKKKKKHHH*
Nice.
(What the F is wrong with Uncle Al?)
Looks like sniffles.
TSA causes Global Warming.
How many ways can I say f**k TSA.
Perhaps if the woman had worn a hijab she could have brought it on the plane.
“I’m from the government and I am here to help.”
@Bad_Brad – TL/DR – I am, with difficulty, recovering from an afternoon spent replacing all the innards of a toilet tank. And it is well-known within my family that every time I try to commit plumbing, it all turns to shit. What I’m having a hard time getting over is that the instructions were clear and logical, the parts properly designed, and it all went without a hitch. But it has left me somewhat whimsically twisted. I’ll be OK tomorrow…as long as there’s no water in the pan I left under the water supply fitting.
Uncle Al
Yea well just sayen pal. NEVER READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They will fuck you up. It’s happened to me. Mainly due to my wife, that thinks instructions should be read. Fxcking idiot. LOL.
Not as fancy a story as this, but a couple weeks ago I was helped by a good person. About a half hour after using my credit card to get gas, I got a call from my bank to inform me that someone had found my card and destroyed it. I’d not even realized at that point that I’d lost the card. The person didn’t leave his name, but I remain very appreciative that a stranger went the extra mile to call my bank and destroy the card. Also feeling fortunate that a less-good person didn’t find it and take it shopping. There are many good people around us.
Bad_Brad – O/T – The trick is to be able to read the instructions and be able to figure out what the writer meant as distinct from what he wrote. It helps if they were written originally in English and not translated from Klingon or, worse, Chinese.
Uncle Al
Good luck getting your stuff flowing. Long day brother. Good night.
Uncle Al, you got me before I was hitting the pillow. Replace entire toilet, wax gasket, bolt it down. Install common sense plumbing. Take a shit and flush. works every time. Unless the turds end up in your dishwasher. That ain’t good. Call plumber.
Easy peezy, dress the wife in a burka and you can breeze right past the TSA with Christmas gifts for the entire fam. No questions asked.
Yep. Good people are out there. Here’s my restored faith in people story:
About 37 years ago my wife and I were on vacation at Atlantic Beach, N.C. Somehow unnoticed I managed to drag a $100 bill out of my pocket and lose it when I went inside a gas station to pay for the fuel. I discovered the loss thirty minutes later at a restaurant. All I could think to do is return to the gas station and ask if anyone had found it and turned it in. We both figured, that’s not going to happen, somewhere someone is still smiling about their lucky find.
Big surprise. Two people did the right thing. Someone had found it outside by the gas pump, had taken it inside and had given it to the station clerk. Who returned it to me. My lucky day as my income at that time was nothing to brag about. Two people had the opportunity to just put the cash in their pocket and keep quiet about it, but they did not. And we did not have to cut two days off our planned stay at the beach.
Fake news.
The brave TSA agent correctly discerned the old white man as a statistically probable threat to the safety of the plane and made him dispose of his terror weapon. And you say big government doesn’t work?
The black woman obviously is not authentically black.
As if we needed yet another reason not to fly.
To BB
That’s odd…my wife didn’t come with instructions….
p.s. (and O/T) since you were saying you were going to “give up on Q” if nothing big happened in July, I thought this – particularly the disinformation part – might interest you:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1016097462107291649.html
What triggered the TSA, plastic snow?
Burner
Thanks for that link Czar. It is easy to get discouraged when lie after lie is pushed by the MSM.
@KMM: I unknowingly dropped my debit card at the gas station once. I didn’t even realize it was missing until my bank called me to say someone had turned it in! The nearest branch was about a mile down the freeway, so this wonderful person went out of his/her way to make sure I got it back. Blown away.