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Meanie
29th November 2009, 20:43
Got home today after being away for the week end and what do you know, someone has been in and mowed my lawns :woohoo:. A job i was going to do when i got home. but didnt have to
Whoever it was, you rock and a big thank you
I did the same for a fellow kb member when he went overseas. Driving past his place i noticed that the lawns had got out of control, knowing he was due home in a few days i mowed his lawns for him. Not a big deal but it was nice for him to come home too. I guess the favour came back
Dont know how many of you saw the movie "Pay it forward" but a nice way to exist

Highlander
29th November 2009, 20:51
Warm fuzzies all round when that sort of thing happens.

Awesome.

Trudes
29th November 2009, 20:51
That's a good movie eh.
Someone occasionally brings our recycling bin down to our front door, it gets bloody windy here and if you don't get the bin in shortly after it's been emptied it blows away. Had a neighbour who would get my washing off my line if I was at work and it started to rain. I've thought of doing the same for one of my neighbours (the one whose washing line is in perfect view from my windows) but then don't for fear they'll come home while I'm stripping their washing line and think I'm stealing their clothes!!
It does feel good to do things for others, doesn't have to be grand gestures, just little things can mean so much to others.

EJK
29th November 2009, 21:49
Awesome story! Did you knock on Cowboyz door to find out if he did it? ;)

Pay It Forward (film): I'll hire that out tomorrow. Sounds like a good movie.

ManDownUnder
29th November 2009, 21:56
Pay It Forward (film): I'll hire that out tomorrow. Sounds like a good movie.

It's a bloody good mantra to adopt too

Foxzee
29th November 2009, 22:08
That's awesome.........:woohoo:

Ummm .......fighting through my lawns to get back in the door..............

HELP................anyone.......lol

Fatt Max
29th November 2009, 22:13
Yep, firm believer in that one. Great when it happens to you, greater when you do it for someone else.

Was at the Temple on Chapel Rd today, took my big bruv fir a visit, those guys really believe in all that, worse ways to be I reckon

MadDuck
29th November 2009, 22:17
Yep, firm believer in that one.

Sadly there are more takers than givers. Good stuff Meanie.

PirateJafa
29th November 2009, 22:24
If a neighbour of mine is going away, I make sure I pop by and mow their lawns every fortnight and empty their mailbox each day until they get back.

No point advertising to the world that the house is empty and uninhabited (and vulnerable) each night.

CookMySock
30th November 2009, 09:30
Grim reaper cant even bet to my door!

Steve

MSTRS
30th November 2009, 09:36
Pay it back = 2 people benefit.
Pay it forward = countless 1000s benefit.

SPORK
30th November 2009, 10:44
I think I misinterpreted that movie, I thought the moral was "nice people get stabbed". You mean I've been acting like a cunt for no reason?

Mrs Busa Pete
30th November 2009, 10:50
We and i are strong believers of paying it forward. Is the only way we work.

:niceone: To your mystery mower.

Wendy & Pete :whistle:

DMCD
30th November 2009, 10:52
I think I misinterpreted that movie, I thought the moral was "nice people get stabbed". You mean I've been acting like a cunt for no reason?

Lol a bit of both perhaps?

mashman
30th November 2009, 10:54
Pay it back = 2 people benefit.
Pay it forward = countless 1000s benefit.

Sounds like a government strategy... :crybaby:

I love the pay it forward idea and do it as often as possible through my daily life, be it retrieving the recycle bin from the bottom of the hill for my neighbour, giving the guy raiding the bins the rest of my lunch, or a ciggy, or just stopping for a chat with a complete stranger and it's not because i believe in Karma, fate or anything like it because i don't, but i do kinda prescribe to the "do unto others" thingy...

The Pastor
30th November 2009, 10:58
If somone mowed my lawns i'd ask them to reinstate it back to propper knee length grass - takes alot of time to get it that long you know.

Cheshire Cat
30th November 2009, 11:00
Got home today after being away for the week end and what do you know, someone has been in and mowed my lawns :woohoo:. A job i was going to do when i got home. but didnt have to
Whoever it was, you rock and a big thank you
I did the same for a fellow kb member when he went overseas. Driving past his place i noticed that the lawns had got out of control, knowing he was due home in a few days i mowed his lawns for him. Not a big deal but it was nice for him to come home too. I guess the favour came back
Dont know how many of you saw the movie "Pay it forward" but a nice way to exist

Teehee....isnt random stuff like that nice? :)
if only more people thought like that

Meanie
30th November 2009, 11:05
Awesome story! Did you knock on Cowboyz door to find out if he did it? ;)

Pay It Forward (film): I'll hire that out tomorrow. Sounds like a good movie.
Ill check with him tonight, but if it was itll be mrs or young master cowboyz :rofl: He doesnt even mow his own




Sadly there are more takers than givers. Good stuff Meanie.

Sadly you are right but its more fun giving anyway, very humbling experience being on the recieving end


I think I misinterpreted that movie, I thought the moral was "nice people get stabbed". You mean I've been acting like a cunt for no reason?

Yea, you may have :laugh:


We and i are strong believers of paying it forward. Is the only way we work.

:niceone: To your mystery mower.

Wendy & Pete :whistle:

Yea, still trying to find out who it is so i can thank them. I have ruled out a few

cowboyz
30th November 2009, 11:35
you know it wasnt me! I far too fucking lazy.

Forest
30th November 2009, 14:54
You won't be smiling when the invoice arrives in the mail. :whistle:

Ronin
30th November 2009, 15:49
That's awesome.........:woohoo:

Ummm .......fighting through my lawns to get back in the door..............

HELP................anyone.......lol

You want I should mow your lawn lady? lol

Meanie
1st December 2009, 17:56
You won't be smiling when the invoice arrives in the mail. :whistle:

LOL yea i did think of that, havnt seen one yet and still dont know who

bogan
1st December 2009, 18:01
Got home today after being away for the week end and what do you know, someone has been in and mowed my lawns :woohoo:. A job i was going to do when i got home. but didnt have to
Whoever it was, you rock and a big thank you
I did the same for a fellow kb member when he went overseas. Driving past his place i noticed that the lawns had got out of control, knowing he was due home in a few days i mowed his lawns for him. Not a big deal but it was nice for him to come home too. I guess the favour came back
Dont know how many of you saw the movie "Pay it forward" but a nice way to exist

sure it wasnt some theiving bastard decided to make off with the bulk of your grass growth? get a half a bale and sell it on the black market

but yip, tis better to have karma as a friend than an enemy

wbks
1st December 2009, 18:07
That's a good movie eh.
Someone occasionally brings our recycling bin down to our front door, it gets bloody windy here and if you don't get the bin in shortly after it's been emptied it blows away. Had a neighbour who would get my washing off my line if I was at work and it started to rain. I've thought of doing the same for one of my neighbours (the one whose washing line is in perfect view from my windows) but then don't for fear they'll come home while I'm stripping their washing line and think I'm stealing their clothes!!
It does feel good to do things for others, doesn't have to be grand gestures, just little things can mean so much to others.I'd be a little creepd if I got home and someone had been messing around with my clothes:baby:

Subike
1st December 2009, 18:10
Simple little things go a long way for sure.
I was returning from a visit with family several years ago, when I happend upon an elderly couple parked on the side of SH1 with a flat tyre on their old style caravan.
The ole fella way trying to change the wheel. Traffic was not light, yet nobody had stopped to help till I got there.
So I did right thing and changed the wheel for him, put all his gear away, and waited till they had driven off before getting back on my bike and continuing home.
About three years down the track, I was on a pootle one sunday when, yes, I got a flat tyre. In the middle of nowhere, bugger!
A retired farmer just happened to pass, he stopped turned around , asked if I needed help.
I sure do mate. Well, he had a scafolding plank on the back of his old Datsun ute, so we were able to load my bike onto the ute.
Needless to say, in his shed was a compressor and the tools I needed to repair the tyre.
"Enjoy your ride young fella", was his parting call. as I road off to continue my sunday pootle
Pay it forward, it works

Meanie
1st December 2009, 18:13
Simple little things go a long way for sure.
I was returning from a visit with family several years ago, when I happend upon an elderly couple parked on the side of SH1 with a flat tyre on their old style caravan.
The ole fella way trying to change the wheel. Traffic was not light, yet nobody had stopped to help till I got there.
So I did right thing and changed the wheel for him, put all his gear away, and waited till they had driven off before getting back on my bike and continuing home.
About three years down the track, I was on a pootle one sunday when, yes, I got a flat tyre. In the middle of nowhere, bugger!
A retired farmer just happened to pass, he stopped turned around , asked if I needed help.
I sure do mate. Well, he had a scafolding plank on the back of his old Datsun ute, so we were able to load my bike onto the ute.
Needless to say, in his shed was a compressor and the tools I needed to repair the tyre.
"Enjoy your ride young fella", was his parting call. as I road off to continue my sunday pootle
Pay it forward, it works

Thats awesome, a lot of truth in that ols saying "you reap what you sew"
Be great if life was like that all the time eh