Was this a good deed?

[stui magpie]

Scenario, I found myself having to park at Box Hill Centro for a couple of hours. No free parking, take a ticket from the machine and pay before you try to drive out. $1 for first 3 hours, not exactly exorbitant.

So, time to leave, head to the machine with a dollar coin in my hand, asian girl is in front of me so goes first.

She sticks in some coins and the price counts down to 50c payable and then it gets fun. She puts in a $1 coin and it spits straight through. Repeat this about 15 times, same result. By now there's 5 people behind me waiting to pay and she's feeling the pressure. She starts asking me how to cancel the action in broken english. Buggered if I know, I've never parked here before and the machine is covered in characters as well as English so your guess is as good as mine.

But anyway, I lean past her, check out the machine, find the cancel button and push it. Her ticket pokes back out, she's happy with that, and then pokes it back in the machine and ground hog day ensues.

Now that I'm paying attention, I lean forward and explain to her that the machine is having issues with her putting in a $1 coin for a 50c bill, it doesn't give change.

Oh, ok, now we're digging in the coin purse and dropping in 5c pieces. The price owed is diminishing until it hits 10c and she's buggered, she has 2 coins left, a 50c and a $1. So I lean past her and drop in a 10c piece.

Poor bugger looks grateful and embarrassed at the same time. She turns around and offers me the 50c piece in her hand, which I decline with a wave and say no, all good. She gives me a little bow with both hands under the chin and says thank you (I've never actually had someone do that before), grabbed her now validated ticket and took off like she was being chased.

With the queue behind me now substantial, I paid my $1 bill and was out of there very quickly.

Does that count as doing a good deed? I'd like to claim it, I don't do very many.

[laird]

Did the lady behave as if it was

[Mountains Magpie]

Yes Stui, a good deed indeed !!

[Tannin]

So, did you get her phone number?

[think positive]

Yes and no! It wasn't really selfless, you could still be there!

[swoop42]

It was 10c.

You ain't Gandi Stui.

LOL.

P.S-I hopefully saved the life of a blue tongued lizard today as I carried it to safety a fair way and away from the resident dog.

I've got you beat I think.

[HAL]

[think positive]

I let a little old hunched over couple in front of me at the super market, even though the express lane was short, I gave them a few more minutes of life instead of them waiting in a queue!

But I still think the lizard wins!

[Wokko]

Old frail guy carrying groceries up a hill, well stopped half way up actually. I relieved him of them and walked home with him. Poor guy had his license taken off him by doctors and didn't realise his shopping was so heavy.

[HAL]

Please make some suggestions for improvement.

[think positive]

[David]

I changed my son's nappy at least three times today. I like to think he appreciated it deep down, despite all the wailing.

[Tannin]

You have a son?

[swoop42]

The scary thing is I'm not so sure Tannin is taking the piss with that comment.

[think positive]