Rescued Today By a Man. Feeling very grateful

[NeverGoingToBeThinAgain]

I have a reliable little car (had for 7 years old) and it has never given me any trouble. A few weeks ago I thought it was taking longer to start than usual and thought I better take it into kwik fit to get checked but then it seemed to be starting fine again and I have to admit it slipped down my priority list.

Today the battery died on me while I was out with the dog and had a full shop in the boot (with frozen stuff). In the interest of cutting costs/saving money I cancelled my green flag membership a few years ago. Mainly because I only drive about in our local town and hardly ever do long journeys now and also because up to now I've never had a days bother with my car.

Obviously I was regretting that today. I was sitting in my car helplessly trying to start it for 5 mins and coming to the conclusion I was probably going to have to phone up the AA and get charged a huge fee to join and get jump started.

I then realised the man at the next car along was talking to the shop worker and asking if he had jump leads to try and help me. I was so touched to realise this complete stranger was taking it upon himself to help me when I hadn't even asked.

Anyway shop worker said they weren't allowed to give us jump leads due to insurance but they sold them in shop. Shit - I had no money with me as I had just popped down to collect shopping (done online all paid for). Stranger Man was on phone to his mum asking how much jump leads were in Tesco and they were £15. He then went into shop and bought jump leads and insisted I take them home with me. That was after he used them to start my car. He had already diagnosed the problem while we were waiting.

I came home and cried because I couldn't believe how kind this man had been (I'm in my fifties and overweight, so not some hot young thing).

So if you are married to a train driver from Fife who shops at Tesco (his wife was a train driver too he said) your husband was my hero today. I'm back home now and of course will be taking out an AA membership before driving anywhere and also going to kwik fit to get the battery changed asap.

The man was also with his two young children and so it was not convenient for him to help me as he had to look after them and he had just collected his own shop too.

We read on here bad things about people all the time and I have to say I never expect kindness from strangers. So for all those that have lost faith in men (or people) this is my story for you.

Meanwhile I pledge to play it forward and help out someone just for the sake of it.

So Mr Train Driver from Fife. At Tesco's today at 4pm - thank you very much.

Anyone else like to share a nice story about help from a stranger

Oh I actually missed that. I get what the poster was saying now.

I don't think there is a 'Fife' railway station. I mean there are plenty of stations but none called 'Fife railway station'

I've never counted them but there must be at least twenty.

mine is from years ago.

I was very pregnant.. 37ish weeks i think, ridiculously hot day.

ExH and I were not far from home when he got a puncture driving down a street. We pulled over and he went to change the tyre, and realised he didn't have his tools in the car.

I'd got out to sit on a garden wall and there was an elderly couple doing some work in their front garden opposite. After a few minutes of me and Ex discussing him walking back to the house for his things (would have been a 20 min round trip) the husband came over with some tools, and the wife came over with a parasol umbrella and a cold drink and sat on the wall next to me, offered me the drink and kept the sun off me while the two guys changed the tyre.

It was just so kind of them both. We popped back with some beer and flowers for them the next day.

how nice. Your son is clearly going to turn out to be a good one as well then just like his dad. No wonder you are proud.

What a lovely story OP😍

how nice of them. Nice that you knew where they lived as well so you could drop off the flowers etc. Actually I've just remembered that the man told me which village he lived in. I won't post it here to protect his identity but it might help Tesco identify him for me.

What an everyday hero!

But please don’t pay for AA/RAC cover, run a cost comparison on compare the market or similar, make sure you buy cover with home start and save yourself a fortune!

What a lovely man! I’m case you don’t know op, it’s doing short journeys only which probably led to your flat battery. The alternator doesn’t have time to recharge it.

DH & DD (a toddler) broke down and were waiting on the verge for the AA. DD was cold because DH hadn’t packed enough warm layers. A man pulled over and gave her his coat, and wasn’t a cheap coat!!

When I was heavily pregnant but still had morning sickness I was sitting on the step inside a shop doorway. A man came with a new packet of wipes, tissues and a lucozade. I was so grateful I cried he insisted on helping me up and walking me to the station to carry on home. I’ve never forgotten his kindness.

Its lovely to hear positive news. There are a few online people who post a good news story every day, and I love the thank you bit on the radio (at least it used to be on at the weekend - always made me cry).

As someone else said their can't be that many Mr & Mrs Train Drivers in Fife. But I know what you mean.

Aww that's a lovely story OP.
Makes me feel warm inside.There's still so many good people in this world.
I hope hears about your lovely message

Not just this year...maybe this month, this week?

Interesting to see some of the very same posters positively gushing over a man who only yesterday were spewing all kinds of bile on another thread about how they hate most/all men. You couldn’t make these double standards up .

He really is. Not long after he passed his driving test he was called by a friend (a girl) at 3 in the morning to rescue her. She’d been abandoned by an uber driver in the middle of nowhere and couldn’t work out how to get home. We didn’t know about it until he told us the next morning as he was explaining about needing the car in the middle of the night.

Lovely of him OP to help you like that.
I have two feel good stories, both from today. DS 4 has recently started a couple of days in playschool and while settling him I'm only leaving him for an hour. I've gone into a local coffee shop to while away the hour. Today, just as I sat down DS5 (6 months and breastfed) decided he was first in line for a drink, I smiled at him while quietly saying 'Seriously? , fed him and 20 mins later an older man, sitting nearby with his wife, arrived at my table with another hot latte and said 'There you go, yours will be cold by now, I was prepared to pay for it but when I asked the young man did he remember what type of coffee you ordered and explained that yours would be cold he told me it was on the house'
His wife then appeared behind him with a pastry and told me he had added that in as he remembered I'd ordered one the day before.

The couple were well into their 80's and the staff worker was no more than 18.

Gave me a lovely warm feeling for the rest of the day.

15 years ago almost to the day, it was my due date, a carpark guy changed my wheel for me in Silverburn shopping centre.

He's never been forgotten

I got hopelessly lost in the outskirts of Reykjavík a few weeks ago after visiting an art exhibition. It was raining. Freezing cold. Getting dark and I’d been walking for nearly an hour trying to find a bus stop in a very desolate place despite following google maps I was so lost. On the verge of tears, I asked a lady if she could kindly direct me to the bus stop and she pointed where it was and then said just jump in and she drove me 5 mins down the road so I could catch the bus back downtown. Having someone be nice to you and help you in a stressful situation is the kindest thing... So glad this man was there for you today it really does restore your faith in human nature doesn’t it!

I have another story about good men not related to me, they helped save my cat! One man stopped his van after seeing my cat get hit by a car, he wrapped him up in his hi vis jacket, the other man was a neighbour who recognised my cat and ran to our house to tell my DH.

I was out, arrived home to front door wide open and DHs shoes abandoned on the front walkway.

Thanks to both those kind men we had DCat at the emergency vet within 20 minutes of him being hit by the car.

They probably saved his life.

My colleague is from Ireland and she has remarked upon this and generally how chatty folk are. I'm not sure you'd have any help in the South east of England where I live!
When I visited a family member quite a few hours away, I broke down on a rural road with a flat tyre, I am an AA member but was just about to call as it was getting dark so quite dangerous as not a wide road, this youngish bloke pulled up and offered to change it. I did say that it was ok I'm in the AA but he said it was no problem and pretty dangerous to be on this bend on an unlit road. I have to admit I was a bit nervous about it as nobody around but he was really good at it and changed the wheel really quickly. I was very grateful of course and was annoyed with myself that I don't know how to do it!

This is a lovely thread , am enjoying reading it .

Try START rescue; cheaper then the AA, excellent customer service, and have got me out of trouble twice.....elderly car.

I think the point of the thread is kindness, not income.

Is it the same posters though?
Wasn't involved in the other thread.

Another lovely one, on Menorca, my youngest had a tummy bug, we stopped the car to get him out the hire car, young guy came out a shop handed me a bottle of water.
Once we'd got the wee guy sorted i went in to pay for the bottle. The girl at the counter was totally confused, my spanish is non-existent . The young guy came over, waving his hands no no, then he told the girl what happened inc the vomit motion, 🤮

@NeverGoingToBeThinAgaincheck your bank account. Some have a rescue service bundled in. If you pay for an account. You might get a switching bonus to a paid for account and then have useful benefits attached to the account. Maybe worth investigating.