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Anybody got a story about somebody trying to help and making matters worse?

We had a manager at work who locked him self out of the car with the keys in the ignition. He had left the sun roof open a crack so the yard man got some steps and then laid on the roof and managed to open the roof, reach in and get the keys.
Only then did they realise he was wearing a leather belt with a massive metal buckle! The roof was a total mess! :-0

Dad was coming home one night and walked into two men fighting outside neighbours house he grabbed one man and other ran...Yep! - Wrong man grabbed the son of the neighbours who disturbed a burglar to say he wasn't pleased is an understatement! :-|

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Yes and it was on a genealogy site!
A man had posted to say he had just discovered that his GF was a war hero who died in WW1 and asked for help with records.
Based on his info, his GF's military records on Ancestry were really easy to locate.
There were over 20 pages, and I saved each one to my PC. ( edit: not my tree)

It was only as I was attaching them to send on, that I noticed that they included some odd looking letters
I promise that...
I read very little, but what the papers contained showed that during his service the GF was anything but a war hero.
The letters in the file were also from the police asking for him to be handed over upon discharge.
The charges against him were ruly awful!
GF disappeared from his unit and is... "assumed" to have died in action?
I had promised to forward these papers and had no option but to follow through.

Poor guy. In a single day, his GF went from being a war hero to a complete .. you know what

Oh dear GL :-(

I once overcame my horror of garden spiders and put a pint glass over one, a thick card underneath and with trembling, sweaty palmed hands threw it out the front door.

Sadly, poor spider was almost instantly gobbled up by a passing blackbird.......*shudders*

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i once went to help a guy who had a motorbike accident he was on the floor and the bike was under a lorry...i tried to stop him taking his helmet off and he attacked me.. i was shaking and he was crying over his bike... :-(

Very wise Stella, I used to have it printed on my helmet please do not remove in case of an accident, can do terrible damage to neck and spine ;-)

If I am in the checkout queue with a trolley full, this is invariably the case because I do put off going until we run out of everything, and there is somebody behind me with a couple of things, I let them go in front.

I was coming to the checkout at Budgens in Selsey one day and there was a woman with a couple of packets in her hand who would have reached it just after me so I ushered her in front.

The pig-ignorant, big-headed old trout then ushered her husband over with his trolley full of stuff and gave me the "you will learn from this experience and know better next time" sort of look like she had just got one over on me, which she had!

This was a few years back now but I still hope it rained all through her holiday and that her caravan was damaged in the storms!

Oh yes,,,,,,,when nursing and on nights I was walking down the ward just checking on the patients,,,,,,,, on the floor was a walkman type machine and ear phones that one of the elderly dears had been listening to music early on in the night,,,,,,,as I bent down to pick it up to put on her locker,,,,,,,she gave a terrifying squawk and bashed me on the head,!!,,,,thinking I was stealing it in her half sleep state,,,,,,,,,,,needless to say she woke up the 10 bed ward and then most were wanting a cuppa and toileting ,,,,,,,,well I ended up as tea and biscuit girl ,,,,,,,,,,and sister was none to happy having a ward full of gabbering and clanking during the wee small hours :-D :-D :-D :-D. :-D.

mm I did once break up a fight , got slugged in the process and also arrested. Thankfully the landlord of the pub when he got up verified my claim that I was the idiot who lived at the bottom of the garden !

A friend of a friend lives three doors away. When her husband left her five years ago she couldn't get hold of our mutual friend and for some reason assumed it was her that the husband had gone off with. He hadn't, but the friend was so horrified that she thought that, she hasn't spoken to her since.It turned out he went off with another bloke.

Being so close by we had her knocking at our door late on the evening he left, in floods of tears, my husband asked her in and she told us all about it.

Now, I have never particularly liked her, but we did the neighbourly/ friend thing and had her round and took her out with us a few times and introduced her to some of our friends. We even put up with her ghastly son and dog.

Suddenly we found we could do nothing without her, she was always there, turning up at things, assuming she was included in family occasions, even going out with my husband if I was working or didn't want to do what he was doing.He being a bit soft felt sorry for her but he too has never been terribly keen on her.

We have just found out that she has been having a fling with my best friend's husband and we feel awful as we introduced her to them in the first place and like us they felt sorry for her and started including her in their plans. My best friend's husband obviously more than my best friend.

Not really the answer to your question Mayfield. We all did her a favour and she has made things worse for us !!

M.

In the late 60's I used to have a Vauxhall Victor and the big end bearings needed replacing. I am not that mechanically inclined so my neighbour offered to help, we got the new bearings, stripped the engine down, fitted the new bearings, re-assembled the engine, took it out for a test drive, travelled about 1/2 mile or so, horrible crunching noise and smoke everywhere.

Big end bearings consist of two half circles with a channel to one side for the oil to flow through, the channels on each half of the bearing need to line up - he had fitted the bearings wrongly, the channels were not lined up - the engine seized up :-(

When we lived in Irvine, ex and I were talking politics to a friend under a lamp post. We were all in agreement, but were lambasting the current government. The friend had a habit of thrusting his head forward to emphasise a point.
A couple of lads walking by thought he was threatening us, and attached him.
Fortunately, we managed to shout loudly enough at these 'good Samaritans', and not too much damage was done to our friend. :-S