# Tell me something good for once among the negativity... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998 "2016-06-22T00:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/21 "2016-06-29T20:02:08Z")
The home handyman who made a number of small repairs for me did a super job and would not take as much money as I thought it was worth. No joke. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/22 "2016-06-29T20:42:46Z")
My son graduated with a 4.0 average, and yesterday got a job. My wife is getting atop her now full-time pastorate. My dad is out of the hospital for now. I had my contract renewed at work, so I will be here a while longer. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/23 "2016-06-29T20:54:00Z")
I have met a nice lady. We’re not anything serious yet, but I think there’s a good chance that it will progress a few more stages at least. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/24 "2016-06-29T22:45:28Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > [Total aside] Holy crap, **WhyNot** , HOW old is the baby? I know I’ve been away from the boards for a while, but in my head she’s barely a year old!! [/aside] I know, right? ELEVEN. I assure you this was entirely unauthorized. I filed a complaint at the rate of growth, and was met with rolled eyes and a heavy sigh. She’s a perfectly normal tween, in other words. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/25 "2016-06-30T00:59:56Z")
Here’s something I think about from time to time: human beings are perfectly capable of doing horrible things to animals, and to the natural world in general. But at the same time, there are plenty of examples like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAq4ffOaRE) and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8a74qXibyo) where humans go out of their way to be kind to animals just for the sake of kindness. Human kindness exists and is real and is by no means the rare exception. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/26 "2016-06-30T01:13:29Z")
Our local newspaper invited people to write a short piece about their church/house of worship. I wrote about my congregation(Episcopal), emphasizing that folks were very friendly, the preaching was good, and that NOBODY was turned away “based on anything in their nature”. That was the shortest and most discreet way to indicate we don’t judge based on race, orientation, ethnic background, or whatever." Later our dean(we’re a cathedral church) told me that he’d had tow people that had come to him to express interest in joining after reading that latter part. He didn’t have to tell me I suppose, but it did make me feel good. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/27 "2016-06-30T01:46:54Z")
Today I went to get a pack of almonds out if the vending machine at work, and it gave me two packs! It was like hitting the snack jackpot. The snackpot. I even gave one pack away. I could afford to be magnanimous after a windfall like that. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/28 "2016-06-30T02:28:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I walked to the supermarket and back today, about 3/4 mile each way. I can carry about 15 pounds, so I go as often as I need to. I always buy a pint of ice cream and sit in the shade on the lawn and eat it for lunch before I walk home. Store brand, $1.58 a pint. I always have a spoon in my pocket. Today it was butter pecan. Butter pecan. Life presented you with a difficult choice and you made absolutely the right one, the only one. Good for you. Never look back. Protip: You can ask them to put a scoop of butter pecan in a bowl, microwave it for 30 seconds, and then top that with another scoop of butter pecan, and then ladle chopped pecans over the whole thing. Warning: Not for people with tree-nut allergies. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/29 "2016-06-30T02:41:15Z")
I can always get worse. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/30 "2016-06-30T02:46:28Z")
The guy in the drivethrough ahead of me paid for my meal because I didn’t honk impatiently at him while he finished a call. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/31 "2016-06-30T02:58:49Z")
I’m returning to college in the fall for another degree. I want to be an oncology social worker. I’m 52. I’m nervous but so excited! I walked six miles in my workout yesterday. I’ve never, ever walked six miles before! I’m going for the same thing tomorrow. We have baby squirrels somewhere in our backyard. We feed the squirrels (and birds) and there’s been one badass who shrieks at the other squirrels and even pushed one off the deck! It’s about four feet high and s/he was fine. When the badass stood on her hind legs to beg it was very clear that she’s a nursing mama. We’re helping to raise the next generation of beggars. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/32 "2016-06-30T06:53:38Z")
Somewhere out there, there is a tiny kitten purring contentedly in somebody’s lap. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/33 "2016-06-30T07:13:21Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > [Total aside] Holy crap, **WhyNot** , HOW old is the baby? I know I’ve been away from the boards for a while, but in my head she’s barely a year old!! [/aside] I have a cheat to track it. She’s a few months older than The Nephew 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/34 "2016-06-30T15:15:54Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Somewhere out there, there is a tiny kitten purring contentedly in somebody’s lap. ^This. I ran the Toronto Waterfront 10K last weekend and TIED my personal best from 2010 (which was a 10K downhill in Hamilton). Tied it right to the second: 1:03:51. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/35 "2016-06-30T15:26:40Z")
[Lake Mendota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mendota) in Madison has been called the most studied lake in the United States. There is a scientific research buoy anchored out in the middle of the lake. It’s official name is “[David Buoy](http://limnology.wisc.edu/blog/david-buoy-ready-for-year-6-on-lake-mendota/).” I really like it when academics show a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/36 "2016-07-01T05:26:21Z")
Good, now we’re talking. My wife got a raise. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/37 "2016-07-01T12:25:10Z")
I saw one of “my people music” (as so lovingly dubbed by Ms. Cups) bands last night and they were the last of my favorite bands that I had yet to see. So of my top 4 favorite bands I have officially seen all of them in concert! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/38 "2016-07-01T14:42:51Z")
I found a good place for pub trivia that’s really close to my house, and this week my team the “Bad Ass Bitches” won. And so we won a $50 gift certificate to the bar. And the event is held outside on the patio, and lots of people were there with their friendly dogs, so that made it so much better. > [@ivylass](#): > > The police department in my hometown is giving children tickets. > > Yep, actual citations. > > If they catch them exhibiting polite, kind, and helpful behavior, they give them an Outstanding Kid citation and a voucher for a free dessert at Chick-fil-A. They call it [Operation Commendable Kids](https://www.facebook.com/ClermontPD/?fref=nf). That is adorable. > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > The world was running out of helium, which is important for more reasons than you might think, but then they just found a huge fat stash of it in Tanzania. So we’ve got that going for us. I heard about that and was very excited. > [@Leaper](#): > > Somewhere out there, there is a tiny kitten purring contentedly in somebody’s lap. I think this is going to be my mantra now whenever I’m upset, it should really help. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/39 "2016-07-01T15:21:20Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > My 11 year old is finally skilled enough to make school projects that don’t objectively suck! She filmed and edited this “movie trailer”, and I think it’s actually pretty good: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKp4pmyV\_l0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKp4pmyV_l0) > > (For those who have been on the SDMB longer than our OP, that’s WhyBaby in the black hat sitting on the back of the couch. My little micropreemie! She’s grown a bit.) I liked it. What was the significance of the apple and (apple juice?) ? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-good-for-once-among-the-negativity/757998/40 "2016-07-01T16:58:33Z")
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