would you help out a lady?

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  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    that is the problem with our society nowdays. Very few people help anyone out anymore.


    This, my parents raised me to help out people. If our neighbour's came home from grocery shopping and they saw them unloading their cars, we were told to go outside and help them.
  • Fit_Canuck
    Fit_Canuck Posts: 788 Member
    sometimes they ask to help..but not when i was leaving the other day..heck the guy at the register didn't even know the prices of things.. good thing i wrote them all down.. im not helpless.. and i enjoy hard work.. but i would still like to be asked. I have taught my children to open doors, help people with things that have fallen, always say thank you and please.. and i know they do this at school,, i always hear compliments about their behavior. I guess i should move to Canada!

    :) Canada would welcome you and at the same time give you free health care :) come on in!
  • RH_Brazell
    RH_Brazell Posts: 339
    I would have helped :)
  • earlyxer
    earlyxer Posts: 240 Member
    Heading to the baggage claim at La Guardia last week, there was a woman with two large suitcases and one small boy trying to get everything down the stairs - people just walked past. I was with my 13 and 15 year old, and as I went past I took one of the suitcases and my son grabbed the other without a word and we brought them down the stairs for her. She appeared absolutely shocked. I mean, I know it's New York, but what has the world become?
  • Pengi81
    Pengi81 Posts: 336 Member
    I definitly would have. That is how my parents raised me.

    Same here
  • DavidOfOz
    DavidOfOz Posts: 225
    I think I wouldve. BUT depends on how I was feeling at the time.
  • Tivo8MyNeighbors
    Tivo8MyNeighbors Posts: 151 Member
    I would have offered to help, because I was raised to ask out of courtesy. I'm sorry you were surrounded by jerks yesterday.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    I would help if I had the time and felt like it.

    If I felt I would need help, I would have just asked for it. It seems common sense that they should offer, but people aren't always thinking about things like that. I don't have many expectations of people and what they should be doing. I would have been offended if I asked for help and couldn't get any, though.
  • schpanks
    schpanks Posts: 468 Member
    I would have offered but you never know how people are going to react. I was watching a woman struggle to push a loaded cart through the parking lot with a toddler on her hip and another kid hanging off her other hand. I offered to push her cart to her car for her and she looked at me like I was going to eat her children. I didn't offer to hold your KID. I offered to push your CART. How much damage could I do? And people always look at me suspiciously when I hold a door for them.
  • DavidOfOz
    DavidOfOz Posts: 225
    sometimes they ask to help..but not when i was leaving the other day..heck the guy at the register didn't even know the prices of things.. good thing i wrote them all down.. im not helpless.. and i enjoy hard work.. but i would still like to be asked. I have taught my children to open doors, help people with things that have fallen, always say thank you and please.. and i know they do this at school,, i always hear compliments about their behavior. I guess i should move to Canada!

    Move to Australia.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I would definately offer to help. I changed a woman's flat tire once in 20 below weather. She was in a service centre and the attendant wouldn't help her! :grumble:
  • ChaseAlder
    ChaseAlder Posts: 804 Member
    I'd probably help someone if they looked like they were struggling. If they were loading them on there with relative ease, I'd think they can handle their own stuff and I'd leave them be.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Yep. I would have helped you load it up. If you were struggling and I didn't have something else pressing, I might even have helped you unload it.
  • JamesOfLondon
    JamesOfLondon Posts: 60 Member
    Yes.

    I'd help you.

    I believe in courtesy for others and civilised behaviour.

    Old fashioned maybe, but I'm not changing anytime soon because I prefer myself that way.

    For example, I'd give up my seat for a lady or a pensioner on a busy train, I often do.

    You'd be suprised at the warmth of the smile you receive for such small gestures in the world we all now live in...
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    I absolutly would have helped.
    Must be the redneck in me.
    But, I would want someone to help my wife/mom/grandmother.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    You'd be suprised at the warmth of the smile you receive for such small gestures in the world we all now live in...

    ^^ The pay off that can make your day.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    I always offer to help, it may just be where I love but some people are so dead set on being independent that they would rather do it themselves than accept help from a stranger. And everyone wonders why chivalry is dead.
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