You left your lights on... [pic]

I922sParkCir · 3 years

I lived on a small island in Washington, US called Vashon and I would do this. In fact many people did this.

I moved to Orange County, Ca, US, and saw a truck with its lights on, and tried to open the door. My friend freaked out and didn't understand why I would take the risk just to help someone.

I miss generally nice people.

hatekillpuke · 3 years

This reminds me of the couple times I found cell phones on campus back in school. I'd ask around the immediate vicinity, and when that didn't work, I'd flip through the contacts, and call either "mom" or "dad" and let them know where I was dropping off their child's phone at a lost and found. People act so thankful, it really makes me wonder how rare an act that sort of thing is, because I wouldn't think to do anything else.

ManifestoConform · 3 years

To bad I also left my keys in there.

donwilson · 3 years

Should be in the happy subreddit!

bdelgado · 3 years

I've done this kind of thing before too. I would wake up at like 3am and walk around the homes in my neighborhood trying all the locks. If one was open, I'd walk in and gently let the people in bed know that their door was unlocked. Then I'd go back to bed, secure with the knowledge that I had done a good deed.

kstein1110 · 3 years

I dropped my wallet outside my car the other day and someone left a note on my windshield saying they were turning it in at their department (at a college).

[deleted] · 3 years

That was my car. I left the lights on so that my half blind, disabled father could find the car after he came out of the store opposite of where I was going to be. I haven't seen him in 3 days. Thanks for saving my battery Will.

hatekillpuke · 3 years

I do this a lot but with bike lights. No need to lock anything afterwards.

zdiggler · 3 years

Heh, I'm in New Hampshire and I don't remember when was the last time I locked my car door.

Just today my neighbor left his head lights on, i just open the door and turn the light off for him.

Once I ordered a few thing and UPS dropped off the package out of the cover from rain and t-stroms were coming. Somebody drove by saw them, he open my front door which is unlocked, put the packages in there and left a note on my notepad in kitchen.

a lot better people then stupid California that I wasted my 10+years

asaturn · 3 years

I used to do this until one day a woman threatened to call the police on me even AFTER I explained that I was just trying to keep her battery from dying.

People are stupid.

[deleted] · 3 years

Now I'm locked out!

trimalchio · 3 years

Today I saw someone smash up a car while they pulled out of a parking spot. I got a sheet of paper and wrote down the info, including license plate number and my phone number and what happened. Later I saw the guys standing around their car and talked to them, and waited for the police to show up to make a statement.

The police hadn't shown 2 hours after he called so I left. The guys that got hit were really appreciative.

BorisKafka · 3 years

I found a pocketbook with around $1000 in it sitting on top of a payphone. No ID but several out of state checks written to her. She had endorsed them so I knew her name. I called one of the people from one of the checks and gave them a number for the woman to call me. The woman called a few hours later. Her car had broken down and while at the service station she had put her pocketbook on top of the pay phone. She and her dirtbag boyfriend came by my office to get the pocketbook. After they dug through it to see that all their cash was there they just turned around and walked out. No thanks, no good bye.

atlacatl · 3 years

I like the first comment:

I remember as a small child seeing my dad do this in a grocery store parking lot. At first I was terrified that he'd be accosted for "breaking in" to another person's car. But he calmly closed the door and we continued on inside. I saw him do it a few other times over the years, and have now done it myself a few times. [Except that I stole the change in the glove compartment and once I took a drive out of town.]

Very cool...

Ryan0617 · 3 years

...Or did he?

blkguyattheprty · 3 years

while waiting with my three year old daughter in the car at a gas station a younger fellow pulled in with his music blaring. he promptly got out of his car and went inside leaving the music on for everyone to hear (thanks!). I got out of my car, opened his car door reached in and turned his stereo off. I saw him look at me through the gas stations glass store front, and gave him a glare back to let him know i know he saw me. he purchased his cheetos without incident.

LinuxFreeOrDie · 3 years

He also cut the brakes

toastedzergling · 3 years

I've done the same thing w/o leaving a note

scottklarr · 3 years

P.S. I relieved myself in your back seat.

deusdiabolus · 3 years

How I would have written the note:

Hello, you left your lights on and your door unlocked. I turned off the lights and locked your doors for you. I hope that you are okay and have not either rushed off due to some emergency, or staggered away with low blood sugar. I also hope that you did not actually NEED to have your lights on and door unlocked so that you could make a hasty getaway from something. Maybe I should have left everything as it was, but I like cheating the universe out of accidents.

Have a pleasant evening. And maybe some tea.

seanc0llins · 3 years

about an hour last night (this morning?) after i read this i went outside to have a cig and noticed my sister's light was on in her car. i hate my sister so normally i would've just left it and gotten many lulz when she couldn't start it the next day, but instead i turned it off.

col381 · 3 years

I remember one year I was at a ski resort. The car park was miles from the resort and I had to return to my car to get something I had left in there. After trekking to the car I discovered that the owner of the car parked next to me, had left his window open, apparently for some time as there was at least 4-5 inches of snow on the front seat. I closed the window and locked the door.

I never had any paper to leave a note explaining things, but it makes me chuckle even now what must have been going through the mind of the owner when he returned - locked car, closed windows, but somehow several inches of snow on the front seat. He's probably still confused about what the hell happened.

scribbles · 3 years

Random acts of kindness.

waffleninja · 3 years

Isn't that still B&E? I would never do that because it seems likely to me that a person who would leave their lights and and door unlocked is someone who would sue or press charges.

plato1123 · 3 years

One time I came out of a department store around Christmas time and saw this dude walking across the parking lot... seemed like he was walking too slowly, and then I noticed he was pulling on door handles to try to find unlocked cars. I got in my car and followed his car for a few miles and then went back and reported his license plate # to store security.

haesuse · 3 years

Never, EVER do this. I understand the intention is wonderful, I do. But, what the people who do this, OBVIOUSLY don't ever seem to think about is that some people intentionally leave their doors unlocked. If the key mechanism in the door is broken (not uncommon), the owner will leave the door unlocked, SO THEY CAN GET IN.

This exact thing that nice people do, someone did to my girlfriend a couple months ago. She ended up having to pay $80 for a locksmith to break into her car.

please, turn people's lights off. even write them a stupid letter talking about how good a person you are. but do NOT ever mess with peoples' locks.

uncalled for.

jining · 3 years

This "Will" character actually took the time to sit in the car and write this note out? Lol... odd, what if the cars owner walked up and found him inside writing a note? hahahaha....

[deleted] · 3 years

yes, it does brighten my day, but i could have sworn as drunk as i am that i turned my lights off...

Jinbuhuan · 3 years

P.S. I also drove home, and parked it in front of my house. Come and get it if you can. P.P.S. You also left your keys in it. Thanks.

Bamrz · 3 years

I ride my motorcycle to work before dawn, it's still dark when I get there. One day I dropped my leather gloves and didn't notice. When I left work in the afternoon, they were sitting on my bike seat. Not only did someone pick them up instead of taking them, nobody else walked off with them!

krod4 · 3 years

I once stumbled into a backyard about 50 meters from a pub to piss. it was cold (around -10 Celsius), and lots of snow. I found a girl passed out drunk on the ground, and starts waking her up, pretty dangerous lying on the ground in that temperature. she wakes up, tries to hit me and runs screaming away. I just got away as fast as I could, and I will never help a girl in distress again!

salgat · 3 years

I've seen this several times, and just decided that it's not worth preventing a drained battery for all the trouble I could get into. I hate to say it, but it is not intelligent to do this, no matter how good willed you are.

caldera15 · 3 years

I also had sex and smoked pot while I had the time + place. One reason I left the window cracked. Don't worry, nobody can reach in and unlock. Your windows fogged up nicely. Thnx!

dirtymoney · 3 years

I've waited around & jumped people's cars who had left their headlights on (draining the battery).

I found an unmailed letter once in a parking lot of a park I was metal detecting at the time. I had to open it to find whose it was (they didnt put a return address on the outside of the envelope)... I looked up the name in the phone book & called her to let her know I found the letter & asked if she wanted me to return it to her or mail it. It was a utility bill.

I've also returned a bunch of lost dogs to their owners over the years.... that I have run across at my work. That's why you always want to have a tag on your dog that at LEAST has your phone number or address on it. Finding a dog with no tag makes me very sad.

stealth210 · 3 years

imagine if owned caught him opening his cars dor tho

i dont think a note or an explanation would help him then

PPSF · 3 years

Wow, this is the feeling I've been having this whole night, even though every experience I've ever had tells me not to.

There are good people out there.

They are rare, so celebrate them.

rabidm · 3 years

I would've told them I stole something just so they could spend forever worrying about what it was.

philipkd · 3 years

Is this a post-secret?

bronyraurstomp · 3 years

This made MY day.

[deleted] · 3 years

I dunno, I think I prefer dishonest to sanctimonious.

kittenbrutality · 3 years

I've done this before at my last apartment complex. Left a nice note to the same caliber. For the week it brought me about 10 karma points.

Dooley · 3 years

p.s. i took the change in your ashtray.

higgledy · 3 years

This reminds me of a previous car I owned... a '92 Mazda 323. Hot car, yes. So, one day I go out to my car to find that someone had broken into it in the middle of the night. Was anything stolen? Was the car vandalized? Um well.... I had a lovely little hula man on the dashboard. Hula man was violent dissected and tossed onto the parking lot pavement. He shattered. Boo. But also, in the midst of the hula man carnage, the miscreants also managed to drink a few beers (while relaxing inside my vehicle) and leave a few more in my car for me to find. Oh, and I should mention the beer was unopened. Albeit that the beer had baked in the sun and was nice hot 100 deg. but still, free beer.

clesch · 3 years

Wow, I feel all fuzzy and warm inside after reading this.

wildpeaches · 3 years

The fact that people think this a big deal that someone did a good deed for a fellow human is very sad.

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