May be 6 months back, I came back home from work and was relaxing. I heard some shaft-cranking sound outside. I looked down from my top-floor apartment window. There was a vehicle struggling to move. Finally, it got stalled in the middle of the apartment-internal-road. The driver, a young girl, seemed terrified and was trying to push the vehicle and then steer it. It wasn’t moving.
Without any thought, I went down and asked her to steer the vehicle while I push it. I pushed the vehicle hard and she parked the car at a safe location clearing the road. When she told me she was just visiting someone and she was not a local person, I gave her local auto repairs info. She thanked me and made some calls, and after some days, her vehicle was towed away.
The incident was forgotten, until today.
Today morning, I was driving to work in rush-hour. Since last 2 days, my fuel light was blinking, I was thinking of filling the tank today after work. But while driving, the car started giving jerks and I knew right away that its running out of fuel. When it started jerking more rapidly, I quickly turned into a shopping complex, and just right in the middle of the internal road my car got stalled. The gas station was just 2 blocks away, and I could see it from my car. Since it was a rush-hour, I quickly got out of the car and frantically started pushing it to clear the road. I finally pushed it to the parking space, but could not park it straight as it was not possible for me to push and steer it because of slight slope. Terrified by this situation I did not know what to do! I came out of the car and looking here and there, trying to figure out how best could I handle this situation.
“Hey! What happened to your car?” I heard a voice from a kind young guy. I explained him the situation. He said, “Don’t worry! I work in that shop and I will call my guys. You steer the vehicle and we will push it. I can see you have 2 kids. How old are they?”
He called his friends from his cell-phone. 3 another young guys came and they all pushed the car to the gas station. Phew!
And as soon as I started taking out my wallet to pay them for the help, they all started shouting – no, no, no. They simply refused to take any favor from me.
“You can do one thing though. If you see anyone in this situation, please help them. God Bless You” – one of them told me.
I pushed someone’s car once, 4 guys pushed my car this time. And from the bottom of my heart I thank those guys and the Almighty for sending the multiplied help.
