View Full Version : Good Deeds! Just changed a tyre for a stranger!


nicot
12-18-2002, 08:27 AM
Guys tell us of your good deeds!
I just went for my usual exercise routine of walking down to the park and back and noticed on the way down a current S Class in strive with a flat. Unfortunately I had to return DVD's b4 I get a late fee so I thought to myself If on the way back they're still there I'll give them a fellow S class owner a hand.

So there I was good samaritan helping this elderly couple who "never changed a tyre in my life" change their tyre completely I was changing as if I owned the car and there were like "O OK u must own one ?"

Anyways I felt good afterwards and I wonder what would have happened if it was a young girl in distress do u think others would have help earlier ??

babbo
12-18-2002, 10:44 AM
Nico, goon onya....

I don't know.
I've been brought up to generally not assist like that due to dangers that may be eminant, but if I see something like that, I will usually help. Its the right thing to do.

After all, we can't be just interested in ourselves, we really should help others whenever possible.

BMW34R
12-18-2002, 05:56 PM
hey nico, the younger the better ;) good stuff man, the more help given the better you feel

kevin7909
12-18-2002, 06:17 PM
too many to tell them all....but here are my 3 most recent (they seem to find me i guess)....

2 girls one saturday night....one in a mercedes and the other in a lexus...lexus tire flat and ripping apart because she can't change the tire and is driving mother's lexus home from a party(both girls were drinking too)....i tell her to pull over (north I-45 for Houston people) and i changed her tire while the one in the mercedes was talking to my friend who was supposed to be helping me but was obviously distracted...yes they were pretty...they wanted to pay me....that seems common..cant we just say 'thank you' without having to mention money?

second one....at gas station fillnig up my truck for work one morning....guy walks up and asks for 75 CENTS of gas (i kid u not) so he can make it to work because he just got a job and moved from some other state...i filled his tank up for him and told him to do well.....

third....same morning near work guy on a harley gets cut off and drops in the middle of the road..him in one lane and his bike in the other....i use my truck and block the two lanes and by the time i could get the door he was up and picking his bike up(fortunate guy...it coulda been alot worse)..and people were PISSED that i stopped and blocked the guy from geting hit...i cant udnerstand that.....i go out of my way to protect bike riders since i was one myself and nearly got killed because someone came out on the highway from a side street and hit us off the bike....people tell me they go out of their way to cut off bikes because 'those bike riders are a menace'....

these 3 happened very recently.....there is always somebody in need, we just have to look...........
Kevin

m52
12-19-2002, 02:19 AM
one that comes to mind was a BM driver in the servo who didnt know where the bonnet release was..... was his wifes car and hardly drove it....

another, helped a conv. driver avoid a mad rush of italians who were taking out there anger on cars up and down lygon street, the nite italy lost the world cup game, he was about to head up the street and recommended he head the other way.

CafeRacer
12-19-2002, 07:46 AM
Hmmm... non yet, but thats only 2yrs driving... :devillook
How about we here some roadrage incidents :D
Like 2weeks ago, a milkshake "fell" out of my sunroof onto the front grill of a truck, for trying to run me off the road! That guy was an absolute psycho and almost made me have an accident though... i dont usually throw good food or drink out my roof :evil2

CafeRacer
12-19-2002, 07:57 AM
Originally posted by babbo
Nico, goon onya....

I don't know.
I've been brought up to generally not assist like that due to dangers that may be eminant

I know im really GENERALISING here, but old couples in mercedes arent usually dangerous. THey probably wont be setting you up to take your wallet or just beat you up for the fun factor :)
but you never know...:laugh

M1 #43022
12-19-2002, 08:05 AM
Originally posted by CafeRacer

Like 2weeks ago, a milkshake "fell" out of my sunroof onto the front grill of a truck, for trying to run me off the road! That guy was an absolute psycho and almost made me have an accident though... i dont usually throw good food or drink out my roof :evil2


:biglaughb DONT YOU MEAN A THICK SHAKE ? :evil2 UMMM .....*insert humour here*............never mind ...

last week I stopped to a help a homeless family whose car had broken down. I had the car towed and one of its tyres fixed at a servo my mate owned (here in Vegas) ,while waiting, my family bought them some take away food. Mark me mate gave me a break on the cost. *he better he likes my sis in law*
:help <------------------its contagious :biglaughb