Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. We've all heard the phrase, 'no good deed goes unpunished,' and now with the new hit film, Wicked, based off of the Broadway musical no one is forgetting it anytime soon. The saying has been around for centuries, for good reason. There comes a time when we try to do something nice, we go out of our way to take the road of least resistance, and make things easier for ourselves and those around us. We try to do the generous thing, the forgiving thing, the nice thing, only to find that it's backfired and stabbed us in the back. All that effort and good intention for nothing.
In this Reddit thread, the original poster (OP) goes through a similar sentiment. She tries to do a nice thing for a stranger, only to have it come back to haunt her, and make more mess than she wanted. She's having a beach day and brought huge umbrellas that you can just stick in the sand to provide shade. She allows a woman with a baby to use her shade while she walks away, but her gesture gets walked all over.