no good deed

If ever there was a saying that rings true, it is this one:

"No good deed goes unpunished!"

It happens to be one of my husband's favorite sayings - and even though I had no idea what it meant the first time I heard it, it is now one of my favorites as well. Because it just fits so many situations!!

Here are a few scenarios that describe it a little better:

•My good friend teaches Sunday school at her church/One evening after teaching. she slips on ice in the parking lot and breaks her wrist.
•My husband picks up flooring boxes that blew out of a neighbors garbage can on a particularly windy morning and puts it in our garbage can/Another neighbor later berates him for not doing a better job of securing "our flooring boxes" in our garbage can.
•I offer to drive my daughter and her friend to the mountain/I roll my car on the way home.
•You run in a charity race/You get run over by a bus.
Okay, so that last one didn't really happen...but, you catch my drift, right?

Well, recently I experienced my own kind of "good deed punishment"!! I recently bought tickets for my daughter and I to see one of her favorite "you -tubers" perform live. I decided to splurge and buy the V.I.P tickets so, we could have better seats AND meet her after the show!! Later, I invited my niece to the show but, there were no V.I.P. seats left so, I just bought her a G.A. ticket, figuring she wouldn't mind since she really didn't know the performer anyway.

When the day of the show arrived, my daughter and my niece were so excited and it became clear to me that they needed to have the V.I.P. tickets! I mean, I didn't really need to meet and greet this 20-something "you-tuber" but, the two of them would have a blast posting pics to Instagram and telling their friends! So, I happily gave them the tickets. Unbeknownst to me, V.I.P.ers got in 15 minutes early to the show. So, I waited in line with them and once they were let in at the door, the ticket collector informed me that I needed to get back in line and wait with the other G.A. folks outside. Okay, no problem. How bad could it be? Well, just as I walked outside, the skies opened up and it began to pour. Down. Rain. I was suddenly wishing I'd packed an umbrella or at the very least, a garbage bag to put over my head!! I was suddenly reconsidering my decision to wear sandals and capris (to show off my new pedi and tan from spring break!!) Ugh. As if this wasn't bad enough, I saw that the line wrapped around. A. Huge. City. Block! So, there I was standing on a street corner feeling just a wee bit sorry for myself!

The only thing I could think of as I stood there with raindrops bouncing off my OPI bubblegum toes, was "no good deed goes unpunished!" I took a selfie of myself standing in the rain with a sad face and that very caption and sent it off to my husband! He knew exactly what I meant!