Do good deeds ever go unpunished? Part 1

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Over the past few days, I have been practicing some Keith Jarrett piano jazz tunes I'm learning. I am using an electronic keyboard that a friend in Paradise CA gave me. He and his girlfriend bought a real piano, were short on space, and asked me if would take the electronic piano. I later realized that I had an older electronic keyboard in the back of my closet that I had never hooked up. I tested it and found out that it works. I then gave it to my young neighbor friend, who of course has been playing with me on my new electronic piano. His mother mother came here from Croatia (six years ago) with very little, so it seemed the right thing to do (giving the older electronic piano to her child). Her kid loves music. Yesterday evening, we switched pianos, to see "which we liked better," while I taught my class at the College. While I was teaching my class, my young friend's mother tripped over the AC cord for my new electronic piano, and broke the input into the piano. She expressed her displeasure at our carelessness with the AC cord, and told us how she had almost fallen. When I brought my new piano home later last night, I did not realize I was bringing home a broken piano. She had not told me that. Nor had her son, who was probably confused. I brought the one I was giving to her son back to her house, not knowing that I had a broken piano in my house. Her son and I tested the AC adaptors late last night, and confirmed that the problem was jack (part of my new electronic piano) that his mother had broken, not with the AC adaptors that came with the pianos. Today, I bought some batteries and found that my newer piano does work with batteries. I will use it in that way and remain silent for now. Would you do the same thing? Late this afternoon I did a good deed for which I have not (yet) been punished. I will write about that another time. Can you think of good deeds for which you have been punished? Can you think of good deeds for which you have NOT been punished?