Observed the unwritten rule (1st time)

I help people all the tikme. A while back There was a guys topped right in the middle of the 118 near my house. people sat there honking and yelling. I pulled off to the side. Went up to his window. He didn't even know his name. He was dazed. I moved his car off the road as people are yelling. He was diabetic. I called the parametics. He was passed out by the time they got there. They got him all tuned up an I left. I think what goes around comes around. There are alot of Assholes out there. (like the people honking) Just don't be one!!!!!!!!!

 

I stop for anything old, people or cars. I flipped a car end for end when I was a teen. It sat on it's roof with the tires spinning while cars just drove right by (2 lane dirt road). Finally a couple of kids in an old caddy stopped and picked us up and took us to a nearby bar so I could call for help. I got into the bar and realized I'd dropped my wallet in his back seat. Never saw it again...

Several years later I was driving a car, I had just bought, on I-94 (downtown Detroit). I lost a tire and when I pulled over I realized that, not only didn't I have a jack, but no spare either!! An old black couple pulled over to offer help but there was nothing they could do... Kinda scary because they wouldn't get out of the car just sat there until I approached them. Finally a cop pulled over and called us a tow truck. Some friends of mine put a car up on its side on the same stretch and some friendly Detroiters pulled over and offered to relieve them of their leather jackets.

A couple of years ago on the way home from Vegas I was driving through a rough stretch of desert and drove past a n older Lincoln with yellow smoke coming out from under the hood. There were 3 elderly folks just sitting in the car. I pulled a U-turn and headed back to see what I could do. They were pretty surprised to see an old Desoto pull up behind them! I put my hood up to cool the car off while I helped out. Turns out they blew a heater hose, so I tried to help him the best I could with some Duct tape and a gallon of coolant and went on my way. The old guy tried to forced a 20 on me before I left but I wouldn't take it. As I was standing there talking to him I watched several "rods" flying past on the other side without even slowing down.

I don't expect help, 'cause people are selfish, but it means a lot when it happens...

 

I thought Unwritten Rule # 1 was NOT to trust your mistress when she says she is on the pill?

 

oh hell, what's you mistress look like?
i've been "fixed"

 

I seem to be a stupid magnet. About 3 times a year there is always an accident in front of me. It's amazing how many people see an accident happen and then just keep going. I'm usually the first on scene to help. I run from car to car to check for injuries and then turn the car off and put the keys on the floor (even disconnect the battery if possilbe). Turning the car off is just as important as checking for injuries. Almost everyone leaves the keys in the on position, not relizing it could catch on fire.
I stop for the same things as every else commented on, just add real 4x4 rigs (not mall cruisers).
What comes around goes around.

 

Yup. Last night, I was coming home from my club's Christmas party, I'm on an elevated causeway with 3 lanes in each direction. Suddenly, there are brake lights, people switching lanes like crazy, chunks of rubber bouncing on the road, and the smell of burnt rubber. I see a small van pull off beside the railing, and I pull off in front of it and turn on my flashers.

The driver is a woman, with an Astro van packed full of her flea market merchandise. Her front right tire has shredded. I have to show her how to set her parking brake & turn on her 4 way flashers. (I thought people should know this stuff already!?) She has a small hydraulic jack that won't go high enough. I have to show her where her other jack is, and that won't go high enough, either!

Of course, I don't have a jack in my truck either, so I'm no help. (I'm going by Harbor Freight tomorrow, though ) She calls a cousin to go buy her a bigger jack and come meet us. Meanwhile, no cops have stopped, its below freezing with a mean wind chill, to boot.

After a waiting in my un-heated cab long enough for a short nap, her cousin brings a bigger jack. And right behind him is one of my club members, Don Heacock, in his red '40 Ford. He'd spotted my '57 Chevy truck on the side of the road, an had to make about a 4 or 5 mile loop to get back to me. Using the new jack on the frame and the smaller hydro one on the a-arm, we get her spare on. Damn Astro must have the suspension travel of a Hum-vee! Anyhow, I just wanted to say how much I appreciated having a club member stop and help me, even though it wasn't me that was broke down.

Later, Kinky6.

 

Ironically, the one time I've had trouble (my dizzy died outside of Caro) three or four classics passed and just waved. One was another '68 Camaro even! Thank God for cellphones.

 

I pulled over to help a lady during a snow storm in Michigan. She put her car in a ditch. I told her I could hook up a strap to her car and pull her out and she thanked me for helping her.I told her she was the second pregnant women that I had helped out of a ditch that day , and she said " I'am not pregnant" and I said " your not out of the ditch yet"

 

Its 2 AM in Febuary. Colder then hell here in Maine. Seez tail lites down off the road. Turns around to check out. A Maine State Trooper! I pulls him out with the 4x4.
That spring I was try'n to locate a State cop to do the paper work on my hot rod. Guess who shows up? He remembers me. Needless to say no problem with paper work.
"Pontiac Slim"

 

Well I stop to help people everyday, I drive a tow truck. Eventhough it's my job and I'm getting paid it would be nice if some of these people would show some appreciation once in a while. You can allways tell a car guy though, they always say thank you and I never get called for some lame ass reason (like changing a tire) for a car guy.

 

The only time I've ever passed another old car broken down was when MINE was broken down 3 miles up the freeway, heh heh... the other guy was lucky enough to break down 4 blocks from the NAPA I was going to. Pfft.

 

Some storys are good others are not... I was driving on I-5 south one warm summer in the late afternoon dragging my car trailer home from a hauling job. I was in the center lane arm out the window enjoying the summer heat when I hear a noise, I look in the rear view mirror and see that the ramp that a friend had forgot to latch in was slidding down the middle lane of the freeway in a shower of sparks..SHIT! So I try to get over to the side of the road and by the time I do I'm about 4 blocks away down the road, I could care less about the ramp but I'm freaking out that some poor bastard in a motorcycle is gonna find the ramp before I can get it out of the center lane. So I start to semi jog down the side of the freeway to get the damn thing and I get about halfway down there and all of a sudden I find myself waking up on the shoulder of the road, how long I layed there I have no idea. First its where am I? Then its "the ramp!!!" I get up and start for the ramp again and make it about 40 more feet and I'm waking up again, this time I take a few minutes to regain my composure then I slowly walked down to the ramp and slowly walked out to the center lane and retrieved the damned thing. After I got the ramp out of the freeway I felt much better and I was glad no body got hurt. Now I knew better to try to hurry to fast to get the ramp as I have a heart condition that tells me to slow down in just that way, its not that I had a heart attack but when I exert myself like that my heart can't pump enough blood to keep the computer going so I black out. My point of all this blabber is I layed on the side of the freeway twice for god knows how long unconcious and do you think anybody would stop? No! Well at least one motorist must have called the state patrol because one showed up shortly after I started back to the truck with the ramp and He gave me a ride back, thanks Mr. policeman. I'm sorry but If I was driving down the road and saw anyone laying on the side of the road I would stop each and every time.