Good deeds do get rewarded

gmccool · Jul 18, 2021

A few weeks ago I went to our local quick shop to get a soda & off on the far side of the parking lot was a classic car with the hood up. The guy was looking the car over as if he were having trouble. I drove over & ask if he was ok & he said he was loosing oil from somewhere. There wasn't a lot of oil on the firewall & underneath but enough that a person would want to keep a eye on it. I ask him if there was anything I could do & he said he didn't have a single tool with him. I gave him some paper towels to wipe things off & told him to start it & see if he could see where it was coming from. He did & we couldn't see anything leaking. I gave him my business card & told him I was only two miles away & call me if he needed any tools & I would bring them to him. Well I never heard anything from him & had pretty well forgot about it until yesterday when I got a gift card from him from that local quick shop. He also wrote a note in a Thank You card & said it was a simple fix (his mistake a simple breather tube). I sure wasn't expecting anything. I was just trying to be helpful.

John T · Jul 18, 2021

Great story thanks for sharing. Ive had many such experiences over the years both as a giver as well as a receiver. A while back I came out of shopping and car (older well worn SUV) next to me had their hood raised with a mom and 3 young some crying overheated kids. I offer help and she said it wouldn't start and said her hubby said to jiggle the battery cables. I look and they were an odd type with a loose cable and weird allen set screw terminals. Soooooooo I look in my truck and happened to have the right sized metric wrench (no other way to tighten properly) and got it fixed yayyyyyyy She offered and tried to pay etc but I told I her I had been helped many times and was glad to pay some back

Moral of the story be kind be helpful and respectful to one another including here or elsewhere

G_ _ Bless all here and the USA

Best wishes everyone be safe be kind be happy

John T

Phil-mar Farms · Jul 18, 2021

I used to live next door to a service station and kind of kept an eye on it. One Sunday I noticed a fellow with a Honda motorcycle in the drive. I went over and offered my help. The guy said he didnt have any clutch. Not knowing anything about bikes I called a friend and got some tips. So I went and got all 5 of my metric wrenches and adjusted the clutch cable That got him going and I forgot about it until in the Fall he dropped off a car calendar Makes a fella want to do it again

MSD · Jul 18, 2021

One Sunday afternoon a car stopped at the end of the driveway. A guy gets out and asked if he could get some water as his car was overheating. I gave him some of course and after putting it in he found it was leaking out as fast as he put it in. He had his wife and young son along. He was from Omaha and worked for a trucking company where he would help the trucks that had problems along the road so he kinda new where he was at here. He found a place to fix it but not till the next day. He told me where the place was and it was next to a motel and some restaurants so I offered to load the car on my trailer and haul him to the place. He offered to pay or take me out to supper but I wouldn't take anything figuring I have been down on the side of the road also. A couple of weeks later I get a note in the mail to look for a package. He had sent me a box of Omaha steaks in return. Sure were good.

RCP · Jul 18, 2021

Many years ago, during a motorcycle vacation in West Virginia, I had a flat tire on the back of the bike on a Sunday and had no way to fix it. I man stopped with a his wife and a car full of kids, he said he knew a shop that could fix it, but he didn't have room to take me with them. So I gave him the rim and off he went, I waited probably an hour and he came back with a trailer. He said the shop couldn't fix it, it needed a new tube, but he knew a guy that had a shop behind his house and could fix it. So we put the wheel back on the bike, loaded it onto his trailer and hauled it to a private residence. The shop had a new tube, installed it and put the rim back on the bike, they charged me $10. The man who hauled the bike wouldn't take any money, I did get his address and sent a gift and a thank you card, but never heard anything more.

All I kept thinking was I had to trust him, what else was I going to do.

1970-1655 · Jul 19, 2021

We were at a Somerset Kentucky cruise in with our 1966 Fairlane down the highway several miles. We pulled off at a good location with a broken rocker arm stud and sat with the hood and trunk up for over an hour while a lot of other cruise in cars went on past. Finally a young guy in a newer pickup with his dad and young son stopped. They live in town but also have classic cars. He gave me a ride to town where I left my truck and trailer parked. He wouldn't take any money and not even his last name. Said pay it forward. This is the way I was raised and have been helping many over the years.

stevieb49829 · Jul 19, 2021

Always pay it forward, every chance you get!! The karma builds up over time, and when YOU really need it, its there for you! steve

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