Who has gone above and beyond the call of duty for you?

MazG

Yesterday morning as I was leaving my apartment building for work, the man who does the maintenance in my estate was out gritting the road. I got into my car and was faffing about for a minute or so, turning on the heater, and sorting myself out for the attempt at clearing the snow off my car, when I heard his voice telling me to close the door of the car. He had gone and got a sweeping brush and proceeded to sweep all the snow off all of the windows of my car. I was really impressed as it was such a sound thing do to. I intend to call the property management people and tell them that he's great, because I think we possibly don't give credit where it's due as often as we should.

So who has improved your day by going above any beyond the call of duty to help you out?

bonerm

Jeeves brought me my newspaper this morning and the thing was ironed even though I hadn't requested him to do so. He really is a spiffing butler and a top notch gentleman.

MazG

Jeeves is, in fact, a gentleman's gentleman

prinz

MazG wrote: »

So who has improved your day by going above any beyond the call of duty to help you out?

One time I lost the passport in Dublin. The next afternoon the parents get a call from a man in Carlow IIRC asking do you know xxxxx ? They said yeah, he told them he looked the surname up in the phone book and had been trying them all lol, he had found the passport in Dublin the night before. He stuck it in the post to them and had it back in a few days. Wanted him to include his address to send something back as thanks but he didn't include it.

NothingMan

My sister helped me move all my stuff from my apartment when I moved a few months ago and then when I was in work she went up and cleaned it for me . She's my favourite sis and I have 7 so there's a lot of competition.

jimthemental

Car broke down earlier in the year, my uncle borrowed a transporter and towed it home for me to save me having to get it towed about 30 miles. Legend!

kfallon

Once a girl swallowed my jizz after a bj and I didn't even ask her too. It was defo above and beyond the call of duty as I'd had a particularly bitter lemon cheesecake that day so she'd have got the after effects of that tho her breath was lemon fresh afterwards!

HarryPotter41

One of my best mates at work in frosty weather when I was delayed leaving, went out to find he had put deicer all over my windows while he was doing his own, has done it a few times since as well. A simple thing, but nice.

IvyTheTerrible

My sister often goes over and above for me and the rest of the family. Like earlier this year I needed to get a Visa for a very important work trip, and she sorted it all out from Dublin for me, including paying a courier to ship the passport to me in France. She is always ready to help out, and to sort out things at home that I can't do from here. She is the best.

Wazdakka

kfallon wrote: »

Once a girl swallowed my jizz after a bj and I didn't even ask her too. It was defo above and beyond the call of duty as I'd had a particularly bitter lemon cheesecake that day so she'd have got the after effects of that tho her breath was lemon fresh afterwards!

I don't think it counts as "above and beyond" if you roofied her first...

fakearms123

This guy I met online gave me one of the packages from his emergency airdrop, turned out to be a sentry gun, he definitely had gone above and beyond the call of duty for me :pac:

HarryPotter41

NothingMan wrote: »

My sister helped me move all my stuff from my apartment when I moved a few months ago and then when I was in work she went up and cleaned it for me . She's my favourite sis and I have 7 so there's a lot of competition.

You do realise they are all reading this and realise its you and now know the truth, Christmas will be trouble for you this year

kfallon

Wazdakka wrote: »

I don't think it counts as "above and beyond" if you roofied her first...

Well I did tell her that I'd pull it out when I was ready to spew me goo but fair play she kept it in there and took one for the team.

It was prob the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me *wipes tear away*

starbelgrade

My postman rang my doorbell to let me know he was at the door.

bonerm

starbelgrade wrote: »

My postman rang my doorbell to let me know he was at the door.

Didn't have a package or anything, just wanted to say hi.

brightkane

prinz wrote: »

One time I lost the passport in Dublin. The next afternoon the parents get a call from a man in Carlow IIRC asking do you know xxxxx ? They said yeah, he told them he looked the surname up in the phone book and had been trying them all lol, he had found the passport in Dublin the night before. He stuck it in the post to them and had it back in a few days. Wanted him to include his address to send something back as thanks but he didn't include it.

And I bet you didnt even know you were in Dubai last January....

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0215/breaking56.html

kfallon

fakearms123 wrote: »

This guy I met online gave me one of the packages from his emergency airdrop, turned out to be a sentry gun, he definitely had gone above and beyond the call of duty for me :pac:

Is this one of these jokes/quips that only online gaming geeks will get???

HarryPotter41

kfallon wrote: »

Is this one of these jokes/quips that only online gaming geeks will get???

I am not an online gaming geek and I got it

Orando Broom

Nasa gave me advance warning about the imminent invasion.

brightkane

HarryPotter41 wrote: »

I am not an online gaming geek and I got it

Reading Harry Potter at 41 is indeed not a gaming geek..

tony1kenobi

That time in Nam I had my legs blown off. This lad picked me up and carried me to safety then cut me in on his luctrative shrimping business even though he was a retard.

Kimono-Girl

kfallon wrote: »

Is this one of these jokes/quips that only online gaming geeks will get???

yes!

alot of people have gone above and beyond the call of duty for me so to thank one just wouldn't be fair....

so to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty for me, thank you, i really appreciated it!

HarryPotter41

brightkane wrote: »

Reading Harry Potter at 41 is indeed not a gaming geek..

I don't recall ever saying I read Harry Potter

fakearms123

kfallon wrote: »

Once a girl swallowed my jizz after a bj and I didn't even ask her too. It was defo above and beyond the call of duty as I'd had a particularly bitter lemon cheesecake that day so she'd have got the after effects of that tho her breath was lemon fresh afterwards!

Geek!

myflipflops

Seems to be more examples of small favours than 'above the call of duty'. I've stopped and changed flat tyres for people before but I think that's just basic politeness.


My brother flying to Europe once to help my out of a jam. That was above and beyond. I'm indebted for life.

HarryPotter41

I think above and beyond the call of duty is anytime anyone does something that surprises you that they did it.

kfallon

fakearms123 wrote: »

Geek!

Yes indeed, I should have turned down the bj I got in favour of playing online games with a headset on against an 11 year old boy in China

prinz

myflipflops wrote: »

Seems to be more examples of small favours than 'above the call of duty'..

What seem like small favours can often mean the most. The simple things count. Taking 5 minutes out of your time to do something easy for somebody else, which you forget about 20 minutes later, could be something that person never forgets.

orourkeda

That hooker last night was superb.

€30 well spent.

myflipflops

HarryPotter41 wrote: »

I think above and beyond the call of duty is anytime anyone does something that surprises you that they did it.

prinz wrote: »

What seem like small favours can often mean the most. The simple things count. Taking 5 minutes out of your time to do something easy for somebody else, which you forget about 20 minutes later, could be something that person never forgets.

Maybe so.

I guess people have lower expectations of others today than they used to.

HarryPotter41

myflipflops wrote: »

Maybe so.

I guess people have lower expectations of others today than they used to.

Not in the least, the friend I spoke about always does little things all the time that he doesn't need to, they all add up to meaning a lot, the one I mentioned was the one that surprised me pleasantly.

fakearms123

kfallon wrote: »

Yes indeed, I should have turned down the bj I got in favour of playing online games with a headset on against an 11 year old boy in China

China?? You obviously don't play online games, your probably too busy being gay and going off getting bjs and hj''s and all the other j's I hear the hip kids going on about

listermint

In a survey of people who come online saying they got a bj of some moth, 100% of those surveyed never had said bj in the first place.

HarryPotter41

listermint wrote: »

In a survey of people who come online saying they got a bj of some moth, 100% of those surveyed never had said bj in the first place.

Couldn't agree more

Wazdakka

listermint wrote: »

In a survey of people who come online saying they got a bj of some moth,.

Moth's give BlowJobs?
How is that.... I don't even...

To the wardrobe with me!!
*Points dramatically and runs out of the room unbuttoning his trousers*

Jesus Wept

Hard to get a bj off a moth, no doubt.

My Dad has been as well as my Dad one of my best friends since I was a teenager, since Mum passed away a good few years back he has also been much more than my Dad and my best friend. If I ever have kids I'll be delighted if they think half of me as I think of him, he still annoys the sh1te out of me quite regularly though, and I him no doubt.

AnonoBoy

orourkeda wrote: »

That hooker last night was superb.

€30 well spent.

You really gotta break out of that price bracket. There's a whole new world of slightly-less-skanky prostitutes waiting for you out there!

listermint

Wazdakka wrote: »

Moth's give BlowJobs?
How is that.... I don't even...

To the wardrobe with me!!
*Points dramatically and runs out of the room unbuttoning his trousers*

The-Rigger wrote: »

Hard to get a bj off a moth, no doubt.

I was lowering the use of vocabulary to match the terms of said BJ. :rolleyes:

MazG

Gah! My lovely upbeat thread and now it's all about fellatio?!

Should have known better than to start it in After Hours

I guess people have lower expectations of others today than they used to.

That might well be true - I usually don't 'expect' any one to go out of their way to do me a favour. So when they do, I appreciate it.

Chorcai

kfallon wrote: »

Yes indeed, I should have turned down the bj I got in favour of playing online games with a headset on against an 11 year old boy in China

dont play against peoples in China >.< cause of high pings !

kfallon

fakearms123 wrote: »

China?? You obviously don't play online games

Damn right I don't, I meet and socialise with other people in a place called the 'pub'

Ardennes1944

cowen has gone well above and beyond the usual misery a politician brings in fairness to him

MazG

jimthemental wrote: »

Car broke down earlier in the year, my uncle borrowed a transporter and towed it home for me to save me having to get it towed about 30 miles. Legend!

A transporter?! Like on Star Trek?!?! Coooooooooooooool!!

No need to have a car at all if you have a transporter!

fakearms123

kfallon wrote: »

Damn right I don't, I meet and socialise with other people in a place called the 'pub'

I meet and socialise with other people in a place called Favela.

Princess Peach

The-Rigger wrote: »

Hard to get a bj off a moth, no doubt.

A moth would have just the right size mouth for some lads :pac:

scientific1982

When my father was very seriously ill, my neighbours drove him to and from the hospital on a number of occasions. They also called in on my mother and drove her to the shops. I was in college at the time and I'll never forget how sound they were.

Apolloyon

Let's face it! Who went on this thread just to see if someone had something nice to say about them?

I know I did...

0verblood

HarryPotter41 wrote: »

One of my best mates at work in frosty weather when I was delayed leaving, went out to find he had put deicer all over my windows while he was doing his own, has done it a few times since as well. A simple thing, but nice.

You love him don't you? And you're both male.

MazG

Apolloyon wrote: »

Let's face it! Who went on this thread just to see if someone had something nice to say about them?

I know I did...

Apolloyon very kindly added a post to my flagging thread about nice things people have done for us. I appreciated this because somehow
a) As a result of his actions, the thread is near the top of the AH forum again, and is thus more likely to get additional responses
and
b)the thread (which I thought started out well), descended into a discussion on fallatio and the liklihood of moths engaging in same and Apolloyon didn't mention either of those things!

So thanks Apolloyon!

HarryPotter41

0verblood wrote: »

You love him don't you? And you're both male.

Hes one of the best mates I have, so yes, platonically, sorry to rain on your fantasy. You can put away the tissues now.