No good deed goes unpunished

Roger was teasing me yesterday about "no good deed goes unpunished".  I had to remind him about "the Texas incident."

A few years ago, Roger offered to make up dog tags for a good friend who was about to start to teach a kindergarten class somewhere in Texas.  She emailed Roger the names of the kids who were to be in the class and Roger used the list to make up individualized "dog tags" with the Kid's name on one side and the school logo on the other.  He packed them up and mailed them off to Texas where they were distributed to the kids on their very first day of school.

The reactions were varied.  From the kids; absolute delight.  The Teacher was pleased with how much the kids enjoyed their "own" dog tags.  From the parents, an appreciation for a thoughtful idea.  From other teachers, subtle rankor in various forms (bitterness, spite, hate, hatred, resentment, malice, ill will, malevolence, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility,acrimony, venom, vitriol).

"Why did you get to do that and we didn't...." 

Perhaps the worst part was that 4 years later, those kids were still showing off their dog tags to "rub salt in the wound".

- Peter