The Kindness of Strangers ...

• Fatum

  15 Nov 06, 07:16

  it snowed heavily last night, and the roads were horrible ...
  
  unfortunately, I drove Michelle into a snowbank this morning at a set of lights ...
  
  I was cursing and swearing; at the prospect of being late for work, and also at having to fork out some major molah to get a tow truck .... it was so bad her front wheels weren't even touching the ground ! ...
  
  I was wrong ...
  
  within 5 minutes, people were pulling up infront and behind me, offering to help ...
  
  first, a student type on a bicycle (yes, there are lunatics who bike in winter)
  then an east indian chap showed up,
  then an old lady who offered to help call a tow truck,
  then a CBC who turned out to be a colleague,
  then finally a chap turned up in a huge Dodge truck and a tow line and we pushed and pulled Michelle out of it ...
  
  I was amazed at how many people stopped by to help ... perhaps there's hope in human kind after all eh ...
  
  I wonder how many of us would do the same for others ? ... to stop by the road and offer assistance to a car broken down or stuck ? ...
  
  
• mhcampboy

  15 Nov 06, 08:28

  You got into an accident??
• Fatum

  15 Nov 06, 08:31

  Originally posted by mhcampboy:

  You got into an accident??

  an incident ... just an incident ...
  
  I braked too hard on the snow and skidded into the snowbank ...
• LinYu

  15 Nov 06, 08:34

  brighten your day doesn't it
  
• missqi

  15 Nov 06, 08:36

  drive carefully nx time!
  
  
• Fatum

  15 Nov 06, 08:39

  yes ... it certainly helped save today from being a totally shitty one ...
  
  I resolve to stop for other people stuck by the roads in the future ...
• mhcampboy

  15 Nov 06, 08:41

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  yes ... it certainly helped save today from being a totally shitty one ...
  
  I resolve to stop for other people stuck by the roads in the future ...

  Careful. They might be a mad murderous lunatic just escaped from an asylum..
  
  And then they will kidnapped you and torture you before cutting you up and eat your eyeballs with ketchup!!
  
  
  
  Ok I think too much.
• Fatum

  15 Nov 06, 08:45

  Originally posted by mhcampboy:

  Careful. They might be a mad murderous lunatic just escaped from an asylum..
  
  And then they will kidnapped you and torture you before cutting you up and eat your eyeballs with ketchup!!
  
  
  
  Ok I think too much.

  wah lau .....
  
  remaking the world into a better place starts with you, no ? ...
• jetta

  16 Nov 06, 01:18

  Awesome good samaritans.
• laurence82

  16 Nov 06, 01:20

  so sweet
  
  
• Xarxos

  20 Nov 06, 17:50

  Another thing that would be as unlikely to happen in Singapore.
• mistyblue

  20 Nov 06, 17:52

  Originally posted by Xarxos:

  Another thing that would be as unlikely to happen in Singapore.

  +1.
  
  They will stop to take down your car plate number to buy 4D.
• -[0]-

  20 Nov 06, 18:08

  Originally posted by mistyblue:

  +1.
  
  They will stop to take down your car plate number to buy 4D.

  Or stand around wondering what's wrong.
  
  Diffusion of responsibility will occur.. then comes the normative behaviorism.
• NotFromVenus

  20 Nov 06, 18:35

  Singaporeans are too engrossed into helping themselves than helping strangers because there is no "TANGIBLE" benefit.
  
  Aren't the Elites only rewarding tangible qualities and tangible real poverty only?
  
  What a culture we can be so proud of?