In That Moment They Snapped And Decided to Stop Helping Others For Good

Over 12,000 users on Reddit responded when asked what the moment that broke their ability to serve other people without being thanked or respected for their deeds.

These people were walked all over without even a thank you for their service, so it changed how they thought about doing charitable deeds in the future.

Whether it was a beggar who just wanted more or a neighbor who borrowed so much that it should be considered stealing, these people were all taken advantage of for being helpful, so they decided to stop helping out at all.

Bargain Shopper Takes Advantage of Stranger’s Kindness

“I posted a futon on marketplace and the first person that hit me up gave me a sob story about needing something for their kid to sleep on.

I was only asking $20 for it but they asked if they could get it for free. My wife and I agreed to give it away, so I took it to our meeting spot at Home Depot.

2 days later this guy had the futon posted in marketplace asking $50. My wife and I Facebook stalked him and his wife and everytime they posted it, we would hijack the listing letting everyone know the story of how they got the futon.

I don’t give [stuff] away anymore, no matter the story they give me.”

Story credit: Reddit / archangelmig

She Got Over Her Ex By Having an Affair with My Husband

“I stood by my best friend when she cried to me about her husband cheating. And he definitely was cheating. They stayed married and said they work through it. Six months later she was [sleeping with] my husband behind my back.”

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The Worst Neighbors on the Block

“I have neighbors across the road who we extended ourselves to to help out because they had young kids and seemed to be struggling.

Well, they were really starting to take advantage to the point where we couldn’t walk out of our house without them literally yelling for us because they needed a phone, a ladder, money, someone to drive them somewhere, diapers, our Wi-Fi password, our wood, etc. etc.

This started happening everyday and multiple times a day. It became ridiculous and oppressive.

They have since pulled that with everyone else on our road, wearing out one generous person after the other. Once you realize people are merely moochers and are content to remain so, that’s when you’re done.”

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Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

“I was walking to a concert in downtown Chicago in late November. This happened on North Dearborn right in the loop, if you’ve never been to Chicago its one of the nicer parts of downtown. It was a cold night, so I was walking with both hands in my pockets and a cig in my mouth.

I was approached by a younger dude, who didn’t appear to be homeless immediately as he was dressed semi decently and didn’t reek or anything. He asked me if he could bum a cig, I was in a good mood going to the concert so I said sure and gave him one, along with my lighter.

He handed me my lighter back and I expected he would keep walking on, but he matched pace with me and asked how I was doing. I told him fine and asked how he was doing, he said he’s just trying to make it out here. I thought “here we go”

, he asked me for money because he said he hadn’t eaten all day.

Now I had about 200 in cash on me, mostly in 20s, I had maybe a couple smaller bills so its not like I couldn’t give him money.

But I didn’t want to pull out a wad of any size in front of a guy I don’t know on the street, and people can judge me or whatever but I’m not in the habit of giving money to homeless people but I always try to treat them with respect and dignity. I politely told him “

sorry man I don’t have any cash.”

He got kind of angry at that point, and launched into a guilt trippy tirade for the next half block or so about how nobody has any compassion anymore and sometimes people just need a little help. I didn’t say anything in response.

Truth be told I started to feel kind of bad for him, what he said is pretty true a lot of people aren’t willing to help other people and sometimes people really just are down on their luck.

I was second guessing my decision to turn him down until we reached the next intersection, I was going straight and he cut to the right.

I had to stop for the crosswalk, and I watched him get not five steps away from me before he took the cigarette I gave him (that he’d barely sucked on because he was too busy yelling at me) out of his mouth and threw it on the ground.

He then proceeded to walk right up to another dude and start talking to him.

Maybe I didn’t “help” him much per se, but if he was as down on his luck as he wanted me to believe he would’ve been burning the filter on that thing before giving it up. I instantly felt vindicated.”

Story credit: Reddit / JimothySanchez96