A waitress and I try to save a stood-up date that eventually shows up for what turns in to a sales pitch what have been you acts of kindness for strangers that have backfired?

Roosa says:

I was walking through the city and I pass a dog leashed outside, presumably while his owner was inside running errands. Not unusual in Seattle, but this was a few winters back during a pretty epic snowstorm, and this dog was mere feet away from an awning that would shelter him against the falling snow. I agonized for minutes over whether to act. I’m usually a passive person (like most internet nerds, I imagine), but this night I decided to take action, even though I was unsure of the social convention. While I was moving the dog, his owner emerged. He was a kid, sixteen or so (I was 24ish at the time), but he was kind of a punk and blew up at me. And, my biggest regret of the incident, I lost my composure and shouted a bit at him as we went our separate ways. I dunno, I still feel like the principle was sound. Moving a dog a few feet to keep him out of the snow seems like a reasonable thing to do. But I can also understand a pet owner’s fear seeing a stranger holding his