Chivalry is dead... at least with city folk

[BadgeBunny]

No doubt there are some GREAT people in the world, but I attribute them to being country folk who understand what it means to "Do unto others...."

I'm a city folk and that's not nice. I do stuff for people I don't know all the time. I tend to judge folks by their actions, not where they come from or what they look like. I've met a lot of really great people that way. True, I've met a few turds, but more often than not the folks I've met have been great!

Guess YMMV, though.

 

[hipshot]

I agree that people aren't as friendly as they used to be, I guess becuase of so much meanness and violence in the world. I still offer to help when I can, I've changed tires and given jump starts and other stuff many times and will continue to do so. I am glad your wife and Kids made it home O.K.

 

[vdub]

Friend and I went to BassPro last night. There was some young guy with his girl walking behind us. We held the double doors open for them and let them go first. They walked to the next set of doors and what happens? You got it, the girl had to open the door. So I pointed at the guy and motioned to my friend and he just shrugged.

 

[jstaylor62]

She called her boyfriend telling him that she was calling from a "borrowed" phone warning him that her husband might be looking for him because of some things he had found out. The call went on for several minutes and she finally hung up and handed it back to me and said "thanks" and walked away.

It never happened, but I was expecting some irate phone calls and harassment cause she was calling from my number and not one they recognized.

This is why I'm very careful about loaning my phone for somebody to make a call. I let a woman borrow my phone for a call one time so she could call someone for ride. She thanked me and I went on my way. The next night a 3AM, I get call from a guy looking for her. I told her I dont know who she is, that I just let her borrow my phone to make a call for a ride. Then he asks me if I know where she is. I said, "DUDE! Its 3AM and dont know who the f$%k she is or where the f&^k she is!"

Another time, on Thanksgiving eve, I saw this woman with a cane standing beside her car with the emergency flashers on. I told her I was not a mechanic, but would do what I could. She said she just needed gas. I said getting gas was in my wheel house and proceed to take her to walmart for a gas can and gas. As we drive back to her car, there is a police car sitting behind it. As I pull up, she says hurry, drive away, I dont have a drivers license or insurance and the tag is from another vehicle. So I ask her what now? She asks if I could just drop her off at her house. Its only a few miles out of my way, so I agree. Then as she is talking to her brother on the phone, he wants a ride back to the car. I try to tell her to tell him that there is no way the police will just let him drive off in the car. So I agree and take the guy back to the car. As we drive up, I see that a tow truck has arrived. I try one more time to explain the flaws of his plan, but he refuses to listen. I let him out and wish luck and drive home.

When I was a teenager, I remember that I was aproached by an elderly man at a gas station saying he was lost. I gave him directions, but he seemed confused. I kept slowly explaining to him and he seemed to understand. I look back now and wish I had done more. He was probably suffering from dementia and could have very easily driven off somewhere and gotten into trouble. Every time I see a story for a Silver Alert, I wonder if anyone missed seeing the signs of someone that is suffering from dementia and in danger.

I try to help people when I can, because I have been helped before. I'm not a mechanic, but I can jump start and get gas with the best of them. But I'm very careful about the situation and circumstances. I'm very careful about helping people on the highway becuase the Lorenz Murders on I-35 in July, 1978.

 

[JD8]

No doubt there are some GREAT people in the world, but I attribute them to being country folk who understand what it means to "Do unto others...."

Yeah, seen too much domestic violence out in the "country" to believe that BS.

 

[okwarren]

It's a symptom of a much larger problem.

 

[sklfco]

Thats just from the rude "city people" moving out here.

 

[Fatboy Joe]

What if the guy didn't have time? It is not someone else's job to make sure you wifes vehicle gets started. With the crazies out there today you never know that once you are under the hood if someone out of nowhere robs you blind.

Now would I have helped her, absolutely. I think those of us who carry daily have become pretty good at quickly assessing the situation and determining which seem to be a little schetchy.

 

[348]

He then says, "we are in a hurry and don't have time."

Ever think that maybe the guy really was in a hurry and didn't have time?

 

[KOPBET]

If you don't know what you're doing or let someone else hook up jumper cables on their own, it can give you an expensive alternator repair or worse. Depending on his circumstances, I don't necessarily fault the guy for not giving her a jump, but making excuses is lame.