Posted by tg in VA on June 11, 2013 at 15:44:30 from (75.193.135.195):
The idea of helping a neighbor isn't what bothers my wife, it's the fact that I could better spend that time working my way through her never ending list of chores.
That said, a couple of years ago it snowed so I put the blade on the tractor and slipped down the street to plow one of my widowed neighbor's drive. As I finished, she came out and asked if another neighbor (also a widow)had gotten hold of me. I told her no and she said that the neighbor was on oxygen and scared to be alone without the ability for people to get up her drive.
No problem, aware that I hadn't been gone long enough to be missed from my chore list, I slipped around the corner and plowed the drive. Before I could get away, the lady came out and tried to pay me. I refused, telling her I was glad to be of assiatance and to set her mind at ease.
I got home wihout being missed.
A couple of days later, that same lady appeared at the stable with a case of beer as a gift for my plowing her drive. I wasn't home so she gave the beer to my wife and thanked her for my helping her out.
When I got home, I had to listen to how I could have been doing "this and that", that needed to be done at the barn while I was off goofing off on my tractor. All I could think of is "no good deed goes unpunished" is an absolute truism.
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