Meaning of life

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> he offered to pay me some cashola and I just smiled and told him to someday stop, reflect on this moment & do something nice for someone else.
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Amen!

I don't have the opportunity to help people every day, but if I do I always tell them if I was doing it for the money I would not have stopped...and to just take the time to help someone themselves sometime, and that will be payment more than enough for me...

Still not sure about the meaning of life though... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

But that's /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif too... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[SPIKER]

yep:

some things just happen: a few years back, I was done for the day leaving work, walked out the door and heard the BOOM, thought what the heck, here comes this Jeep Grand Cherokey (Brand NEW guy picked it up that day heading to a big job meeting) he pulled into the drive @ work to see what happened, I walked up and saw the tire, (blew out the sidewall hole about size of a hard ball.) He was major dressed up in suit and such. I was in my worked all day grubbies.. I told him to pull on down to the shop door and I'd help him out. wipped out the air hammer, and floor jack, had him back on the road in about 5 min. he gave me 20.00 for the efforts even though I said it wasn't needed. He insisted & I didn't want to refuse.

the next week I got a note in the mail from him said he made his meeting on-time and a thankyou sent to me via the shop address! I kept it for a long time in the top of my tool box but lost track of it.

stopped and gave a few guys rides who were broke down along side road too. usually going that way anyhow dropped one of at work a bit out of my way but he needed the help! as I've been there before by driving OLD cars all my life so every now & again you need a hand...

Mark M
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[Taylortractornut]

I know the feeling Old cars and Dump trucks I can be any where withing 50 miles of home and be broken down in a dump truck or other COmmercial vehicle and about 20 minutes later someone Ive helped in the past will pass by. Usually they work for one of the big scrap yarders or construction companies here. Now if Im questioning a persons Intent if they are broken dwn I leave the car in gear and see if I can call help.

 

[Zoomie]

While still on active duty, I was home on leave visiting and going from my parents house to my wife's parents house, traveling along a Farm-Market road in rural Texas.

Three cars in front of me each slowed, then swerved around a car that was sitting diagonally across the dividing line, and continued on. I pulled off the road and the lady who had been driving the car was in the road-side ditch looking dazed and confused.

Seems she was driving along about 45 when the car's rear end just locked up... her drive shaft was in the ditch near where she was standing and of course the car wouldn't move an inch.

About the time I was getting ready to see if my little Ford Ranger was up to the task of pulling her car out of the middle of the road. A local famer pulled up in his 3/4 ton and we used that and a stout chain to literally jerk her car out of the road.

I gave her a lift into town, where she lived, and refused her offer of payment. When she got out of my truck she looked back and said: "Now I know... if I need help, to look for a pickup truck."

 

[fenneran]

We saw both types a couple of weeks ago. We were on our first week of a four-week tour of the west. Towing our 29' camper up a pass in Colorado and BOOM! The engine blew (Suburban, 6.5 Diesel) So I'm on the up-side of a big hill on the side of the road with a big truck blowing steam and whatnot and a camper on the back.

Wouldn't you know that the first guy to pass yells out his window how "smart" I am. Guess he thought I overheated and it served me right. Shrug.

The second car to come by was four college-age kids on their way to some sand dunes for "sand-surfing" (I didn't know you could do that). My cell phone didn't work there, but theirs did. I was able to call AAA as well as wait 10 minutes for them to call me back with the tow truck info. I told them how much I appreciated them stopping and waiting for us to get set up with AAA and slipped them $20. They refused at first, but I was pretty insistant. They wasted a good 20 minutes of their fun day helping us. The least I could do was help with lunch or gas money.

The "rest of the story" is that I ended up having to junk the Suburban and buy an Excursion that night. Great way to start a vacation, eh /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

-Frank

 

[SPIKER]

fenneran: at least you got the right NEW truck brand! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

every chevy I ever owned would leave me stranded every chance it got! driving along at speed ment somethign else was going to break with in min. 3 trans, dozens of alternators.starters and such. finally broke down and got my Mercury; and never agin will I buy a GM product... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif last time was my GF's chevy which would blow the head gasket every 20K. I took her chevy while her dad's t-bird came to her from his passing. ahe has been happy every since, even though the t-bird was wrecked 3 times now, (once by her dad and two times by her, (well rear ended by drunk and slid into ditch by a passing truck) the rear ender should/could have been a total, but they added on a new rear half. they didn't do best job @ body shop (as the rear IRS was shoved forward and caused damage to trans, and to rear end) thry both leak now... it did suffer a head gasket failure after the ditching too as it lost fluid but was by her means DRIVEABLE /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ya sure...

anyhow my fords while they do break down they will almost always get you HOME and let you know it is broken! hahaha

MarkM