2,000th post Karma Giveaway - FREE STUFF!

[jblosser]

*** UPDATE: Winner is post #20, shadyone, runner-up is post #15, Rotten Connie.

Did this about a year ago when i hit 1,000 posts - took 17 months to get to 1,000.

Took 11 months to get another 1,000 - what's that say about my (lack of a) life?

Never really bought into the whole "karma" thing; sounded too much like hippies smoking the hippy lettuce, but on the way home this past winter I saw a car off the side of a driveway and two older ladies (mother/daughter, 70's/50's) standing there in the snow.

I stopped, asked if they needed help - they did. Went home (about a mile up the road), grabbed a tow strap, went back, hooked up, pulled her back onto the driveway.

They tried to give me $20 - I declined, since I didn't really need it and it really wasn't a big deal. It was maybe an extra 10 minutes of my life.

I went back home, checked the mailbox, there's a letter from a credit union. Mom had some annuity that the Estate Attorney somehow missed, and short story long, I inherited a sizeable amount (Mom and Dad's estate originally had everything going to charity, so I got nothing - not that I wanted/needed/deserved anything). This was almost 4 years to the day after my Mom's passing.

So: Maybe there is karma.

WHO can win: Anyone

HOW do I win? Post in this thread. Share a story of karma, if you have one. Post once per day, post a hundred times, I don't care.

WHAT you win:

..1st place: $100 gift certificate to any of ORdN's sponsors (or $100 donated in your name to a charity of your choice, e.g. The Human Fund).

..2nd place: (if you bother to respond to my PM, unlike Hoblick last year...) A pair of tickets to an OSU Hockey or Basketball game.

WHEN the winner will be announced: Wednesday, 2 November, 2100 hours (9 PM e.s.t.). The winner will be randomly selected from all of the replies.

WHERE the winner will be announced: In this thread, duh.

WHY: Explained above

Edited November 4, 2011 by jblosser
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[Beegreenstrings]

In for some good karma, maybe a little of yours will rub off on me.

[Casper]

I'm not interested in winning this (someone else can make more use of it I'm sure), but I have to say this is a helluva gesture. Major kudos to you.

[buildit]

Best good Karma story I have. Other riders have helped me and Bens Helmets are no different. Sure most have already seen this though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKk8wXoDYc

Oh and I was able to repair the little Hondas front breaks. The grandparents said they had someone to fix the flat tire already.

[scottb]

It does kinda make you wonder how and why events occur the way they occur. The last few years on Father's Day, my father and I have stuff that was just the 2 of us. One year we went on an all day motorcycle ride and another year we went to A and A target range. This year dad wanted to go to Presque Isle casino. I am not much into gamble, but I have on occasion. I figured it would be of a fun day to hang out and talk during the car ride. Well, dad ended up winning almost $500. I still bought him dinner at Quaker Steak and Lube in Erie.

So maybe, in a wierd way, it was karma "allowing the win" since dad got to chose how to spend the day.

[TheBrown57]

I cant think of any direct Karma like jblosser stated other than I try to be nice to everyone hold the door for women and older folks and help out my friends and strangers without expecting any compensation and I seem to have had very good luck all my life as far as getting fired from a job on Friday getting hired at a better job the following Tuesday only to be offered a different and better job at my current company 3 months later and have been here for over a year and have had luck with my car currently at 262k miles (92 accord from my Grandma) and going strong. I belive in Karma and that I have earned quite a good amount of it and it seems that people that I have encountered in my life that have been assholes and just shitty in general are not doing so good.

[bowdog]

I am not sure if its Karma or just doing the right thing but about a month ago my elder neighbor came to me and asked if i knew anyone that could install new door locks for her because she was worried the one she had was not locking properly, i went to Lowes and purchased a new set for her (she paid for) then i installed for her. she tried to pay me and i would not accept, next day there was a basket of cookies from her when i got home! mmm i like cookies!!

[scottb]

So, karma not this = Karmann Ghia:

[flounder]

Im the same as Brown. I cant think of any direct Karma other than I trying to be nice to people and helping wherever I can. Ive been very fortunate with life, jobs, family, etc.

If this constitutes an valid entry and I win, no need to contact me, just donate it to Habitat for Humanity or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. No need to donate it in my name, anonymous or use your own name which is more fitting.

Great gesture.

[Steve Butters]

i dont really believe in karma all that much...i believe in doing the right thing when i can and not expecting anything in return...i figure if i live my life how im supposed to then the Lord will bless me....I guess its kind of a related deal, but I dont really connect a good deed with something good happening to me.

I've actually experienced the opposite. For example, any time I see someone broke down or stuck in the snow etc and I think I can help, I will stop to see if they need a hand. I dont charge them or expect to get anything out of it. But any time ive had roadside issues I havent had people stop to assist. I smashed a deer once in the middle of e. broad st at 3am and had a city truck and 2 CPD cruisers drive by..I tried to flag the cruisers down but they ignored me and drove right past. I believe experiences like this are tests, we do all the good we can and then dont receive the same treatment from others, but we still keep doing good because its not about receiving its about giving. I will get my rewards when I'm dead, so while I'm alive its best to just keep moving forward and trying to do the right thing when I can.

[buildit]

Okay, I've got one Karma story. Nothing to do with motorcycles though. I live in the country so when a neighbor asks a favor, you do it because you will most likely need their help sometime too. So when my neighbor asked if I could cut down some weeds with my tractor for their daughter up the road I said sure. She insisted to pay me so I figured I'd ask for cost of fuel $20 to mow down about an acre of weeds and small trees with my finishing mower. She explained it wasn't her property but the neighbor had said she could mow it down. So I cut down everything I could till the trees got to big for the mower to handle. About that time the neighbor comes over and hands me another $60 saying how grateful she was. So for 2 hours work I made $80. I felt so bad I went back the next day with the bucket on the tractor and cleared the rest by back grading it and pulled out three telephone size poles hiding in the weeds. Glad I didn't hit them with the mower deck!

[buildit]

I believe experiences like this are tests, we do all the good we can and then dont receive the same treatment from others, but we still keep doing good because its not about receiving its about giving. I will get my rewards when I'm dead, so while I'm alive its best to just keep moving forward and trying to do the right thing when I can.

+1

[conn-e-rot]

I used to work at a juvenile detention center and we had this girl that got into trouble a lot she was locked up more than she was free from the age 14-16 always for dumb petty shit. Well one day after visitation I was walking the parents out to the exit and her mother stayed back and asked to talk to me. She told me how her daughter always said how nice I was to her and how much she liked me and that she would never do anything to upset me. Her mother said she just wanted me to know how thankful she was that someone was that nice to her daughter when she was locked up. Well about three weeks later she was do to be released and the night before her release I talked to her about keeping herself out of trouble and not coming back because if she ever came back I would be highly upset. I quit working there about six months later and never saw her there again. I ran into her one day in the mall she was 19 and was with her fiance she came running across the food court calling me with a huge smile on her face she said she just wanted to tell me that she never got into any trouble again after our talk that day because she wanted me to be proud of her. She had told me before how her dad never wanted anything to do with her. She said that she had never even met her father. She told me I was nice to her and listened to her like she thought a dad would do. Poor little girl just wanted a dad.

Of all the jobs I've had that job is the only one I can honestly say I enjoyed going to work everyday just knowing that I had helped some kids better themselves was so rewarding.

[Steve Butters]

I used to work at a juvenile detention center and we had this girl that got into trouble a lot she was locked up more than she was free from the age 14-16 always for dumb petty shit. Well one day after visitation I was walking the parents out to the exit and her mother stayed back and asked to talk to me. She told me how her daughter always said how nice I was to her and how much she liked me and that she would never do anything to upset me. Her mother said she just wanted me to know how thankful she was that someone was that nice to her daughter when she was locked up. Well about three weeks later she was do to be released and the night before her release I talked to her about keeping herself out of trouble and not coming back because if she ever came back I would be highly upset. I quit working there about six months later and never saw her there again. I ran into her one day in the mall she was 19 and was with her fiance she came running across the food court calling me with a huge smile on her face she said she just wanted to tell me that she never got into any trouble again after our talk that day because she wanted me to be proud of her. She had told me before how her dad never wanted anything to do with her. She said that she had never even met her father. She told me I was nice to her and listened to her like she thought a dad would do. Poor little girl just wanted a dad.

Of all the jobs I've had that job is the only one I can honestly say I enjoyed going to work everyday just knowing that I had helped some kids better themselves was so rewarding.

awesome story man +rep

[conn-e-rot]

I left out the part that I was in this same juvenile detention center when I was 14-17 several times for some dumb shit never did anything serious mostly curfew violations. The guy that talked to me and made me wake up back then ended up being my boss when I worked there and he remembered me the day I interviewed and him remembering me was what got me the job he said he felt I was better qualified because I had "been there and done that" and I knew what these kids were going through and he said they wouldn't be able to BS me as easily as some of his other workers.

[Beegreenstrings]

I feel I dont have very many good karma stories and if I did they do not amount to much and do not come to mind.

I have been on bad karma's side since I was 3. Had a childhood plagued with surgery's and being in more cast than a care to remember. was run over by a tractor at 3. surgerys most of my true youth. surgerys to correct botched surgerys. Surgerys to remove bone fragments 3 years after the fact. More stitches than I care to remember. Learned at a early age how to remove stitches even with the round nose plastic scissors from kindergarden. Issues with my right leg still today. My family and my physician were amazed that I could even walk let alone play baseball (which brought on other issues).

Call it what you will. Karma or luck. Does not matter to me. Seem to work out the same way for me. Almost to the point that I want to start putting a bounty out for all black cats.

Karma - pulling 3 people from a burning firebird (one of which was prego). Only to turn around and find that one of the 5 that were in the car stole your vehicle.

Pulling a person from a burning house. Only to go back into that house to have the floor colapse out from under you and have to scurry like a drowned rat out of a burning collapsing basement. Then be treated for puncture wounds from the hot scalding nails piercing your gear - yeah lovely.

I am sure there is a good story somewhere but for the life of me I cant remember it.

Can I say that I have had a plagued childhood of disaster - to have a great job? I dont think so since I am always in fear of being laid off.

[Steve Butters]

Karma - pulling 3 people from a burning firebird (one of which was prego). Only to turn around and find that one of the 5 that were in the car stole your vehicle.

wow - it really doesnt get any lower than this....what a fucking scumbag

[Beegreenstrings]

wow - it really doesnt get any lower than this....what a fucking scumbag

You think! Then a additional 600.00 cleaning bill to have the truck cleaned and disinfected, because the scum bled all over the freaking place.

I'm trully not bitter about things. I just live my life day to day. See where it goes and hope for the best. and

[Steve Butters]

You think! Then a additional 600.00 cleaning bill to have the truck cleaned and disinfected, because the scum bled all over the freaking place.

I'm trully not bitter about things. I just live my life day to day. See where it goes and hope for the best. and

did you ever find out why he did it? he obviously wouldnt get away with it since he left his friends there...i wonder if he had drugs or something on him and was afraid the police were going to show up...ever catch the guy?

[shadyone]

How about this ... GF got mad because I had to go to cleveland for work training and didn't invite her along.. it was Mon-Wed. she had to work, and i didn't expect her to take off when I was going to be busy most the time. so she wouldn't answer calls or texts. until the next morning when she goes out to her car to find a completely flat tire. then she calls me. I tell her i can't help but to get someone to try and put air in it to see if it will hold long enough to drive a quarter mile to the nearest mechanic. she does and then she gets dicked around for almost 3 hours and they try to charge her with $130 dollars to patch it.. I had told her to not let them charge more than $20. She finally gets them to agree to $15 bucks and she is on her way.. BAD KARMA was the first 2 words from my mouth after she told me the story..

[conn-e-rot]

My grandfather always told me that you should always help people when you can because you never know when you'll be the one needing help. He would do anything to help someone. There was always someone coming over asking to borrow money or needed something welded or help moving something or a ride some where and 99% of the people he had never met but somehow they found out about him and he always helped them. I remember him writing a woman a check for $2000.00 to get a car he had never saw her before but she promised she'd pay him back after she left I asked him why he gave her the money that she probably wouldn't pay him back and he said he was fortunate enough to have the money she needed and if she didn't pay him back then she needed it more than he did. That spring when she got her income tax check she was there to pay him back even tried to give him extra for interest but he refused it.

[chevysoldier]

These are some great stories...

[Beegreenstrings]

did you ever find out why he did it? he obviously wouldnt get away with it since he left his friends there...i wonder if he had drugs or something on him and was afraid the police were going to show up...ever catch the guy?

He was some P.O.S. that had warnings out for his arrest. He took my vehicle drove it home and parked it in the neighbors driveway. That is how it was located. The neighbor came out to go to work and was like what the hell. Truck still running. Who knows for how long? He stole it at 1AM and they found it at 6AM?

More bad karma - I am all ready to go to court to go after this retard and my sister shows up (2 months after the fact) says I cant proceed because it is her husbands cousin. WTF - Nope his ass is done. So when we went in to court. I asked for the bills to be covered. With all his assets there was not enough to cover half So I asked for the judge to force him into full extent of the law or to force him to the military. The judge had offered that to him once before and he denied it. So he got thrown into the clink. His bad day though. When I got up to leave, the city of worthington was coming through the doors to prosecute as well.

[Steve Butters]

good for you not caving in to your sister

[Coyote]

I'll refrain from posting in this thread since I won last year.