No good deed goes unpunished.

[Georgie]

Thanks, WD! If you folks knew me better you'd know that this backfired good deed is just one of many over the years. There was the time I offered to let a woman lugging a big suitcase down the road to leave it at my house until she could make her connection to come pick it up. It ended upthat she was a homeless person that camped out on my front porch for a week until I finally got the police to get her to leave. Then there was the time that a little boy at school who had no family but his mom needed help. She had to go to the hospital for back surgery and there was no one to care for this child. So he came to stay with me. Poor kid was so screwed up he had nightmares and wet the bed every night. When I took him to the hospital to visit his mom she complained that his hair wasn't combed right and that his scout uniform was ironed poorly. I forget how I finally got relieved of that duty.Then there was the cat I adopted from the SPCA that sprayed all over my house, was loaded with fleas and had a respiratory infection. After paying a vet to examine him I returned to the shelter and the attendant got huffy with me for returning him. I'll never forget her saying, "C'mon Kitty, I'll find you a better home." I wanted to slap her! But the cat had the last laugh after all, because I came down with a case of ringworm from him! So you see, this latest incident is just sort of par for the course with me. You'd think I'd learn by now.