Nine Occasions When Being Nice Can Backfire On You

Being nice might give you that warm, fuzzy feeling for a few minutes, but it's not always great. 

The story that caught our eye today was the considerate Florida mum who left an 84-year-old elderly woman skip the queue. The sweet old lady bought a lottery ticket and BAM! she won nearly €400 million... ouch. 

That story proves being nice isn't always that satisfying. Here are nine occasions when being nice can seriously backfire on you... 

1. When You Give Your Spot In The Queue To Someone...

And you're about to buy the Lotto/scatch card and then they win something and you don't. Fail.

2. When You Offer The Last Biscuit Around...

Just because your mother taught you that way and you're being polite, you obviously want the biscuit, but then someone takes it.

3. Saying Yes...

To someone who wants to borrow "just a bit" of your fake tan and all you're left with is an empty mist.

4. When You Introduce People...

Again, just to be polite, but you forget one of their name's in the process. Awkward.

Yea! Take THAT!!

5. When You Offer Your Space In A Queue (#2)...

And the person just takes so bloody long you would have had time to pay for the ticket, buy food, enjoy the film (trailers and all) and come back for another one.

6. When You Introduce People (#2)...

Just because you're trying to be nice, but turns out they hit it off fabulous and never call you to hang out again. #foreveralone

7. When You Offer A Lift...

And people think this offer is still open six weeks later at 4am on a Sunday morning. "Are you around town?! I've no money for a taxi..."

8. When You Congratulate Someone...

On a pregnancy. This should never, ever be done unless you are 100 per cent certain.

9. When You Lend Clothes...

And don't get them back. It's just painful, really.