No good deed goes unpunished

Jumping mother of pearl. Some advice: never advertise to give away an item for free on craigslist on the biggest moving day of the month. Say it's twenty bucks, or a barter, something. By nine am my email was so overloaded with freebee hunters, it shut down.

My reason for giving away instead of selling was pure at heart, do a good deed, recycle instead of waste, but primarily so I wouldn't have to deal with it. No haggling, no sales pitch, and most importantly--no helping people get the thing down the stairs and onto their car.

The price of my laziness-driven altruism? The first person to answer my ad was a cheerful young woman with cerebral palsy, who is confined to a wheelchair, who has just moved to an assisted-living apartment, is in desperate need of a bed, and who would like to know if I could help her also handicapped, but mobile sister get it down the stairs and onto their car.

Well yes I'm going to give her the bed, and help her get it downstairs. I'd strap it to my back and carry it to her house if she needed me to. Although I admit I'd be muttering, "be careful what you wish for..." the whole way.

Posted by Antigeist at September 30, 2004 10:55 AM