[Enterprise]

"No good deed goes unpunished."

Seems like it at times. I might do a random good deed and life then gives me a pie in the face. Other times though something good might happen to me, or just an importantly, to a family member. But I agree that the giving is goodness for the sake of goodness, and that's enough.

[RummyChick]

I will never forget how I felt when I was going to the post office to ship packages to soldiers through Anysoldier.com

Someone hit my car in the parking lot. I just looked up to the sky and said, “ WHY??? I could have just stayed home, you know”

But then on Thanksgiving Eve this year, a huge extended cab pick up Truck came out of a parking lot - crossed the lane towards my drivers side within inches. I knee jerked the car to the right trying to escape.. afraid I would hit someone else. I finally got to the grocery store parking lot and parked. Someone pulled up to me and asked me if I was okay. She saw what had happened.

I just looked up to the sky and said, “I guess this is my payback. I could be dead right now.”

[norton]

On occassion I run across someone I think should have something in my possession, or maybe just a helping hand.
Very rarely money, it makes enemies.
Sometime after having given some stuff I'd received from friends in Japan to another friend's granddaughter (I'd never met her) I heard from a mutual acquaintance that he was looking for a project with his brother. I gave him the pink on a sixties Triumph I'd had in storage.
Very soon afterward I got a call from wife of the first friend asking If the bike recipient had gotten the wrong idea; "I know you do things like that but..."
Very nice lady but I felt sorry for her failure to understand.

Felt so good I gave my stored Matchless to a friend who was moving away.