I am happy to say there are still kind people who help strangers. ( Archived) (13)

this realy impresed me, have to share.

I was driving my truck, delivering a load, in quebec canada. be being from the states I have no clue about were anything is up there, I was in a very small town, blew an air line on my tractor, made it to a gas station, the lady at the counter told me there was a repair shop I could walk to about 2km down the road, keeping in mind it was -20 c, I walked to the shop. it turns out it was a car shop not a semi shop, but the owner who was working though his shop was closed, answered the door, called around, found me an air line, had it delivered, charged me what he payed, gave me a ride back to my truck, lent me the tools to replace, and made sure that it worked and I was able to be on my way. now I wanted to share this, because it realy impressed me, this was way out of the realm of what I had expected, or hoped for. this man did much more than I could have even hoped for.

just goes to prove that there are still great people out there and you never know when you will run into them.

marry christmas to all.

Jim

Awesome story, Jim. Yes, thankfully, there are still people out there who will do things like this. I was raised to do things like this for people. My father is a man who will go out of his way to help a stranger, and has taught me well. Just remember it next time you come across someone in need of aid. I'm sure that's all he'd ask in return. That's all I ask in return when someone offers to repay me.

Merry Christmas

That's fantastic, Merry Christmas also, I have had a few great good samaritans help me thru the years. It is cool there are some good people out there.

great story. Wonderful to know they (we?) are still out there!!

This reminds me of a story I heard recently on the news about a man that spends most of his time in California watching for motorists broken down. He is a very good mechanic. I only caught part of the story. But I believe the story goes that someone helped him or his wife once and he was so greatful that now he spends his time repaying it, but by helping more than hundreds of times already. It's so cool.

Awesome story. A bit extreme, but everyone's gotta do what they've got to do.

I couldn't believe he kept it up either but that's cool.

along the way in life I have helped many people, jumpstarted thier cars, helped them get gas if they ran out, out here on the road helped drivers if they were down on thier luck, all I ever said, and still do is, when you see someone that needs help, pass the favor on, I have never accepted money for helping. call it karma, getting what you give, or what ever you want. it gives me faith that what you do in life will be returned to you. have been going through some rough time of late, did my heart good to see someone do this for a compleat stranger.

I truely believe in that Karma too, and I am sure it is why you were helped.