You're welcome... ya JERK!

As I walked to work in the extremely yucky rainy weather, I saw an elderly man walking with no umbrella. Being the gentleman that I am, I went up to him and offered to give my own umbrella to him. I feel that there's enough bullshit in the world that we have to deal with and I just want to do anything I can to cut down on that stuff. I also wouldn't mind getting a blessing from a senior citizen because senior citizen blessings are just as lucky as four leaf clovers.

Rather than hearing kind words and being filled with a sense of warmth, I was treated to a nice verbal lashing and an angry wave of a wrinkled and liver-spotted hand. "Back off of me, you punk!" It's not like I was trying to alley rape him or anything. I just thought he'd like to not get soaked so early in the morning. Silly me.

This made me remember a situation that happened to me a couple of weeks ago as I was entering the bank. There are two sets of double doors, and I saw a man getting ready to enter. I opened one of the doors and smiled, but he just smacked his lips and gave me a dirty look like he just saw my face on an ad supporting Judy Baar Topinka. "I can open a door by myself, thank you!" he said to me. Then he opened the next set of doors and said, "see?"

When did people become so ungrateful? I'm not a fucking boy scout! I just like to do nice things for people every now and then. It makes my day a little brighter and it gives me hope that maybe they'll do something nice for someone also. But when people take my generosity and shit all over it, it counts as twice the weight in the other direction of the niceness spectrum. I guess I just have to focus my mitzvah somewhere else - somewhere it can be appreciated... like at a sex club.