Times Are Changing

[weldingisfun]

What ever happened to all the friendly folks who used to live in the country? Today, while towing a 20 foot tandem axle trailer loaded with four round hay bales, approx 8,000 lbs, the right rear tire on the trailer came apart. I saw the blue smoke in the mirror and found a safe place to pull off the 35 mph road. The temperature was pushing 100ｰ which may explain why no one stopped to offer to help change the tire, but it sure doesn't explain why roughly 50 cars drove by and no one stopped to even offer to call for assistance. Times sure have changed.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I feel you pain.. I live down the street from a HUGE campground & marina.. I cant count the # of times I've stopped & offered assistance.. & drove to the house for a jack or tools for some stranger.. & even taken their "wife" back to the house to use the bathroom..
I hope things get better where you live..

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Visited a country town near where I grew up; the type of people had completely changed. These "country" folks struck me as white trash from the city that had moved to the country so they could manufacture meth.

 

[CalG]

Times do change

Call phones and AAA are very common "these days".

I seldom leave home without them.

 

[tjkubota93]

Visited a country town near where I grew up; the type of people had completely changed. These "country" folks struck me as white trash from the city that had moved to the country so they could manufacture meth.

Haha amen.

Or that had enough money to move where they is "cool"

 

[mddorange]

I guess that a lot depends on where you are at.

Where I used to live in Georgia has become the North, as everyone there now has moved down from somewhere up north. All the original people who were raised in Georgia has moved further out into the country to get away.

Where I live now isn't growing that fast and still has mostly people raised around here but every day I find more and more people who used to live up North.

 

[2458n]

yupppppppp sure have. happy I was here for the first part.

 

[Wagtail]

Times do change

Call phones and AAA are very common "these days".

I seldom leave home without them.

And that's the reason right there. By and large, "these days" the majority of motorists have a mobile phone and some sort of 'roadside assist' plan via an Automobile Club, their insurance or even the dealership they bought the vehicle from. Truth be told, I reckon that quite a few younger drivers have never had to change a tyre in their life!

That being said, I know that there are a large number of mobile phone black-spots, here in Tassie. I will stop and ask if everything is 'alright', especially if it's an obvious tourist or if the 'bonnet is up' & they're in need...

But the opposite has happened too. Tourists (mostly, shall we say of the Oriental persuasion) have stopped (sometimes on the road) in order to photograph a dead critter that they've never seen before! Fine, you've never seen a wombat/quoal/echidna/pademelon/etc... Go to a bloody ZOO!!!

 

[Creamer]

I think it has to do with who you are. My daughter had tire problems on a Saturday evening on a freeway in Ohio a couple of weeks ago. She pulled off at an exit and into a gas station. the car did come with a spare - not even a donut. She was in a panic and some people got their donut out and changed it for her.

The next Monday she went to the local store of the tire dealer she purchased the tires at and they took care of here under warranty. Then she delivered the donut back to the good samaritans.

I don't think it hurt though that she is 24 and very easy on the eyes. Still I was glad they were there and willing.

 

[Clint S]

I will rarely stop anymore. Used to alot. Around 15 years ago I witnessed a kid come around a corner met a garbage truck and plowed through a snowbank and into a house. Cops came and I offered to stay and pull the guy out. Next thing I know the cop comes over and hands me a ticket. I almost ended up in the back of their car and the cop told me to leave with him or on my own. Seems the kid told the cop I "ran'' him off the road. The cop never asked me a thing just handed me a ticket. Kid still wanted me to pull him out too. It took alot of leg work to track down the garbage truck that was in front of me and going to court only to find out the cop knew the kid he ''just believed'' him. Vowed never to stop for anyone again, although I break the rules for older folks and ladies with kids sometimes.