Well?

Yes, more than once.

Local deputy, she looked like she was having a hard time.

Nope. But I have helped to pull a few out of deep snow and save them a tow truck fee.

Several times.

Several times

Our cow farm has two highways and a railroad track going right on through.


We get some random chit out at the farm.



Last week while sorting pairs in the corral a woman walks down and needs help with a flat.


I didn't know who she was but of course helped out.



Dodge pickup.

Yes, Several times.
Always someone I was reasonably sure wouldn't cut my throat.

Yes, more than a few times. I'd pretty much pick and choose anymore though.

Andy Williams met his wife to be, by stopping to help.

That is what you do in rural America

Out here where there are few people and fewer services we help out that way and others often.

Yes, I've stopped and helped an elderly women change her tire once. Then one day I was at the fire station when a young female pulled up to the station with a flat. It was around 95 degrees outside and humidity 80%. She "axed" if I could change her tire? I walked back in the station and got a couple of young guys to help her. She did not have a jack, SO I went and got mine out of the truck. The 2 young firefighters opened her trunk to find another tire completely shredded. She said she had another blow out a few days before. So the guys put the idiot tire on. The whole time she was sitting in her car with the AC on yakking on her phone. When they got through and let the car down. she just drove away. Didn't say Thank you, FU. Nothing! Acted like she had pulled into a self service filling station. The guys were soaked in sweat from head to toe. true stories from workin da hood.

Yes, a few times.

Yes, and have taken a few to grab some gas when they ran out as well.

Many times. Rio7

Yarp

I remember being a young kid and good folks stopping to help Mom out with a flat.

Kinda sticks with a guy I guess.

Yes

Yes

I changed a tire for a couple women on a hot day once. They said a lot of cars drove by and didn't stop. A few days later the elder of the two came to my house and gave me a loaf of fresh bread. That was nice.

Commonly - who wouldn't?

A few times. One was a lady who knew how to change a tire, but didn't have the strength to undo the nuts because they had been overtighted with an airtool.

Stopped to change one for a college girl once. Way out in BFE and it was hot as a MF'er! I had a 3" 1911 IWB rig on and as I was getting the jack up under the frame when I heard her kinda gasp. LOL. When I got the maypop spare on there she started telling me she was late for a job interview and was gonna hit the 70 mph freeway and haul ass! Them little donuts are only good for 55 mph but what was I supposed to do?

And, I've had young folks help me!

Did you do her?

Never successfully. I’ve tried to twice.

First time heading to an A’s game and a lady had a flat- stopped and offered to change it and at the time a Caltrans/tow truck operations stopped and got it done.


Second time was aggravating. Coming home around 1am from what was a 16 hour shift. On a long sweeping off-ramp connecting two busy freeways a car was pulled over on not much of a shoulder. A lady was outside of her car on her phone. Thinking she was probably scared- I pulled over. Flat tire. Offered to help. She said she’s been waiting for a tow truck but they can’t find her. I help translate where the hell she was to the driver. He wouldn’t be there for an hour. I was on a motorcycle so I laid my jacket down to start to change the tire. It was a smaller/newer sports car. The rude lady couldn’t be bothered to get off the phone when I had to ask some basic questions… like can you open the trunk and unlock the doors so I can find the Jack. After getting the Jack/tire it became apparent that I wasnt going to be able to change it as the car was lowered. The Jack woulsnt fit under the Jack point. So I left, after making sure she wasn’t scared.

What started out like a porno, ended up with quite the frustration.

I stopped in a pretty rough looking neighborhood in East St. Louis to change a tire for an absolutely panic-stricken young mother with a kid in a car seat. The fact that I was packing a P-64 in my waist band and made a point to let it show didn't bother her at all. Of course, both of us were white, and we looked like a couple of polar bears in a coal mine! Over the past 50+ years, I've probably changed a dozen or more tires for total strangers.

Certainly have stopped and changed a flat for someone that needed help

Numerous times, but it's been years.
Now, with two knee replacements, I'm the one who would need help.

I've pulled out folks that were stuck.

I always stop and offer help, or help.
Karma got me yrs ago, I passed an old couple with a flat, but was in a hurry and didn't stop and ended up having a flat myself several miles down the road.

Read a story about Trump, A couple stopped to help change a tire on his limo, and he paid off their mortgage.

LOL Roger.

I stopped one time to help an elderly couple at the end of road 24 almost to Hwy 99. I put on the little maypop spare and told the fella to go the quarter mile to the end of the road and turn right and he'd run right into a Les Schwaab Tire.

He turned left.

Yes. Several times.

About 40 years ago my wife and I were heading to a race at the Westwood track outside of Vancouver, BC. Just north of Woodburn, Oregon on I-5 we saw an older Dodge Dart with a flat tire and pulled over. There were 4 nuns in the car heading to Portland for an important event. They said their jack wouldn't work. Not a problem. We got our floor jack from the trailer and had the tire changed in no time at all. They were very appreciative and blessed our racing season. We both won championships that year.

I've sold Ford breaker points on interstate 80.

I once changed out valve cover gaskets alongside a very busy major interstate highway.

Yep. Two gals had a flat bad tire and their screw style jack was bending up the lift point next to door and barely lifting. Spare was also flat.

I put a little bottle jack under and got the car lifted and aired up the limper tire and had them on their way. Can't tell you how many vehicles pull back onto the broad in the winter with the Cummins one ton

I once changed tie rods in a parking space

I have done that.

Yes, I stop for older people and Women.

You gotta do what you gotta do regardless where the odometer hits 50k.

I think so, but I don’t keep track.

Yes but probably wouldn't anymore. I just don't trust people enough. With cell phones and AAA etc., I don't feel a strong need to stop and help.

But did you torque your sprocket bolts? Oops, never mind, different message board.

I have.

When my wife was about 8.5 months pregnant with our oldest son she, had a flat and a good samaritan pulled over and changed her tire when he saw her struggling to bust the lug nuts loose. Because of that, I'll keep passing it on to someone needing help.

When I was a teen I had a 55 Chevy V8 with solid lifters in need of new rocker arm nuts.

I did it so much I could set the valves at night under a street light, and did so several times

Many times, and unlike everyone else so far, I can prove it.

Tokyo a few years ago. Lady was having a major league meltdown in a convenience store lot. Had her teen aged kid in the car practically in tears. Turns out they were on the way to the AP and the kid was heading overseas for a 6 month homestay in Canada. Plane was leaving in 2 hours and if the kid missed the plane the trip was a no-go.

After getting the story interpreted by Mrs. KG, I told the woman to give me the keys and I'd fix things. She said that she didn't have a spare tire or even any tools in the Saab. I assured her that she did, but just didn't know it. Ten minutes later they were off to get the kid on the plane. Win for Team America, no doubt.




I've done the same at least a half a dozen times over the years for strangers. Ain't no puzzle. Help out people jammed up and go on about your bidness...

Yup...

I have, and will as long as I can.

Sure I have.

Yes, your community is what you make of it.

I have changed tires many times, and went back to my house and got gas for a woman less than a week ago. miles

Many times yes...

And many times no...

SO MUCH depend on the who has the flat.

Was helping a millennial once and he stopped "assisting" and started texting or gaming (...or something).

I threw the tire iron in the poison ivy and left.

Several times.

I only help the young college chicks now, to heck with everyone else......

I also have to many times to count, I remember one time a woman of small stature must have been in her fifties, as I was changing the tire I said joking you gotta be more careful I could be an axe murderer. And without missing a beat said "I was a kindergarden teacher for thirty years I ain't afraid of you" I was laughing so hard I could hardly finish changing the tire.

I’ve done it when I was younger, but won’t stop to help a stranger today. Too many wacky people out there nowadays, and we all have cellphones.

Do you throw the tire iron in the poison ivy and leave when they start using their phones?

Sure have, more than once.

Do you Open carry or CC?

^^^that^^^ Many times, and will continue doing so.

Thread reminds me of elder daughter having a flat at university and calling dad. Told her get started, and I'll be there in 10 minutes from office. Showed up, she's in car, engine running, yacking on phone. So, being a mentoring-type dad, I opened the trunk, showed her where the spare tire compartment was, and got back in my car to watch. Boy was she pi$$ed. Despite consulting the owner manual, I had to run over an prevent her from putting a hole in the floorpan with an errantly placed scissor jack. But, one week later, we had a dinner party and she proudly recounted how she replaced a flat tire all by herself.

Another time she & her sister noticed one of the tires on their car getting low. Gave them the pancake compressor and encouraged them to git r dun. After ten minutes of not figuring it out (despite watching me do it a dozen times), youngest returned to the garage, grabbed a bicycle pump, and filled tire with enough air to get to station.

I ALWAYS stop and ask if I can help... couple of times a month. Most times they don't need help or have someone on the way... just how I was raised. Black/white/poor/wealthy... matters not. Just the right thing to do.

I tried once

woman acted like I was going to rape her, told me very curtly she didn't need any help, so I left

didn't think I gave off a rapey vibe but I guess you never know.

Yes when I was younger a few times. Also, stopped many times to help anyone stuck on the side of the road.
I was a mechanic and always got them going. Never took a dime for anyone in trouble, even when they tried to force it on me.

-Ken

change tires, jump started and pulled them out of ditches...

No.

But I always give a cheerful “beep-beep” as I drive by which I think most people find encouraging.

Yes, older people and women. Have not done so in years and not sure I would tdy, might be a set up to rob me.

Yes - but it was 1985


I was on my way to my Grandfathers funeral, and still in uniform (was in the air force at the time), and I stopped in Syracuse NY to on highway 90 on a Friday night when I saw a Caddy with an older gent standing outside looking at a blown tire.

Turns out the guy was an editor on the Syracuse paper, the guy didn’t say a thing, he only asked me my name and why I was traveling. I was in a hurry.. my Grandfather was one of the best men I knew and I wanted to be back there…
— about a week later he did a write up on it, and the First Sargent came down to our office with the article…

Huh..

It’s sad the world has made doing good things so dangerous

Have done it a few times . Only once did I speed away .
They jumped the gun and a swarm of people came running up to the guardrail as I pulled in , mashed the gas and hauled ass .
No cell phones back then and dropped word at the next exit . lady got on the horn to local police .
I moved on , hope nobody got had .
Kenneth

Yep, several times. I changed a tire for a UNCC college student about 10 years ago. She stayed on the phone with someone the entire time. Never said “thanks “, just waved, jumped in her Mustang left. I just laughed and went into a Subway to wash my hands. My daughter will be a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill this fall. I hope someone will stop to help her if she is in a tough situation. Although she can change her own tire.

Yes but only for older folks or women.

Big D and I were out shooting crows early one frosty Sunday morning deep in the heart of Caswell county. Riding down a gravel road we came up on a old deuce and a quarter with a flat, four elderly black ladies standing around, no spare. I think we scared the hell out them when we pulled over and two big rednecks got out and began shuffling a couple of rifles around to get behind the seat of my truck. This was back in the 80's before anyone had a cell phone.

Took out my travel air pump and a plug kit and had them back on the road in about 30 minutes. Strongly suggested they get a spare.

Turned out they were en-route to a AME camp meeting and made us two plates of fried chicken with all the sides you load on a paper plate.

Still remember eating that feast from the tailgate of my old short bed '83 GMC and washing it down with cold Bud leftover from the night before.

Sure.

Yes! memtb

daughter had a flat coming home from college

she was so unprepared for it she didn't even know she had a flat. I take responsibility for that

but in the trunk she had a full size spare tire with matching wheel, a breaker bar with a 19mm socket for the lugs and a small hydraulic floor jack with a couple of 12" 2X6's.

So a state trooper pulled over to check on her and then changed her tire. I'd like to think its because I made it easier to change the tire. I made sure she got his name, and while she thanked him, I reached out to him and let him know that I appreciated him taking care of my daughter

Some boys with Allison Racing changed a tire for my wife when she was pregnant with our oldest. I was in Arkansas duck hunting at the time. When I got home I took some pecan pies in there for the boys and thanked them. I never drive by there without thinking about those boys.

Yep. Flat tires, stuck vehicles, broke down vehicles, stranded drivers.

I picked up a kid along Northbound I-75 in Michigan on a Sunday night in January. Young guy was so cold that when he handed me back my cell phone after calling his brother, the phone was cold. Dropped him at the next rest area where his brother was going to meet him.

Yep, a couple of times

Once, long ago and far away…..

I've stopped to help "ladies in distress" a couple of times.

I was working night shift when I came upon a car stopped in the right lane of a 4 lane street. A young gal was standing outside looking at her flat left front tire. It was easy to see she had just hit a center divider a couple of blocks back. It was also easy to see she was drunk. I held the flashlight while she drug out her jack, tire iron and spare tire. I made her do all the work. It took her a while but she got it done. I figured it was my job to give her some encouragement and guidance all the time while I held the flashlight. By the time she was finished she had sobered up enough she could finish her drive home.

I'm made sure she knew what made that tire go flat and she knew I knew she was drunk. Hitting that divider, it totally destroyed the tire and the rim. So not only did she have to change the tire by herself she needed a new tire and rim to replace what she had destroyed. I certainly hope it was a lesson learned. I got credit for a public assist and she got by with replacing her tire and wheel. The best part was, no paperwork was involved by either party.

kwg

Not a flat tire, but I spent the first half of Memorial Day in 1985 helping a Mennonite family with a busted transmission line. I'd been out with a bottle of scotch all night and didn't really feel like helping them, but I couldn't leave them stranded in the summer heat that morning. Naturally no dealerships were open, nor were any wrecking yards open on the US side so I took the old man across the Rio into Juarez to find a wrecking yard. The old guy spoke only German and Spanish, but I speak a bit of Spanish too so we got along and he knew where to go over there. Got em fixed up by about noon. The old lady spoke English and wrote me a letter from Nova Scotia, where they were headed a few weeks later. They only got a few miles down the road after replacing the transmission line and something else let go. I have no idea how they dealt with it that day, but they eventually got to their destination.

I've stopped to help people one several occasions and will do it still, but I am very cautious about it.

Yes, several times, a couple times on I-76 in drifting snow, and a couple of times when I had to move a good rear wheel to the front on a frontwheel drive and put the donut spare on the rear.

I was on rt 89 in Vermont and they exits are 30 some miles apart, anyways there a car on the side of the road with two collage girls in it and they had run out of gas. They had went to a concert in Boston and spent all there money and did not have enough for gas to get back, well I started cussing them out about how stupid and dangerous that was and one started crying so I stopped, "I have a daughter that age" I put the gallon of gas I had in and said that I would follow them until they ran out and go get another gallon they ran out two miles from they exit. Once there they called there father and the one that cried told her father that I yelled at her she handed me the phone and I told him why, he was livid "at her not me" He asked me to fill up there tank and he would arrange to pay me back, A couple of days later they other father called me and I told him the story I told him I was sorry for yelling at his daughter but was really upset at what could have happened and that I had one that age. He said don't worry about it that's nothing compared to what awaits her, They both bought me dinner and one let me hunt on his farm so that worked out well.

You're not the only one to comment this way but what I want to know is how old you are and what do you consider old?

I have. And I will again. Although it takes me a hell of a lot longer now

Yes

Yes

A home health nurse’s suv thing out in the middle of nowhere cornfields KY.

her spare was flat too.

But since I’m so awesome, I had one of those pos cig lighter air compressors. I got her 30 psi in that spare and she rolled on out to Big White Daddy’s plantation to wipe his ass.

yeah, she was bleck womern.

that's a good story. Those girls are old enough now to look back and realize what could have happened had some other guy showed up and not you. They probably have daughters now too

Sure. But it's been a while.

I have lived in rural areas around small towns all my life and grew up with men who would always stop to help strangers. Plus, I have driven cars that were always breaking down and have frequently relied upon the kindness of strangers to get going again or for a ride to town or home. Therefore, I always stop if someone needs help. I have pulled folks from ditches, pushed or towed cars to the nearest station, jump dead batteries and changes many flats. Two memorable incidents. I saw two young dudes standing beside a Chevy Trax with an obvious flat and they were goofing with a cell phone in an area with no known cell service. They were 16 or 17 years old. I pulled over thinking maybe, like my dumb young assed self once upon a time, they didn't have a spare. I ask and they said they were trying to call one of their mothers. I ask if they had a spare. They said they didn't know, but that they didn't know how to change a flat anyway. I showed them where the spare and jack were located and told them how to remove them. I gave instruction on how to change the tire like instructing a 3 years old. After a very long time and a great deal of patience I was able to get these two young dudes back on the road with a bit of a life lesson...I hope. The other was stopping on to help what appeared to be a most beautiful redhead. She said she had called a friend, but wanted help anyway. So I jumped out and in a few minutes had the spare tire on and was removing the jack when the friend arrived. An equally beautiful blonde gal. They were very grateful and ask if I wanted to go out for dinner and a drink to repay the favor. I told them I would love to but I was married. They said they were also married, but still wanted to go out. It was tempting.

All this kindness to strangers came back to me a few years ago in Western Kansas. I was pheasant hunting and headed to a roosting area for the last push of the day. My wife was hunting with me. This particular area was down an old abandoned section line road no one ever drove on. I drove through a mud hole and ripped a 2 inch hole in both sidewalls of the tires on the right side. Someone had used a T-post to help them get unstuck and left it in the hole. The spade was up and ripped my sidewalls. I was getting dark and we were miles from town on sandy old two track roads. I had a spare and decided to put it on the front for steering and drive on the back flat and/or rim for as long as I could back to town. The tiny town we were staying in did not have a tire shop, but I thought I could take care of the problem the next day at the nearest bigger town. I had just gotten the front tire off when 3 young dudes in a truck pulled up behind us. They ask if we needed help and looked over the situation. After conferring with each other on which local might have a tire that would fit my Dodge Dakota they decided it was best to haul me 40 miles to the nearest big town to get a tires from WalMart. One of the guys stayed with my wife and the other two took me to town. The local Walmart had only two tires that would fit and were closing the garage in one hour. I got the tires mounted on my rims and those fellows hauled me back to my truck. They replace the front tire while I replaced the back to put me back in service. They said they had never been on that road before and were just driving around looking for coyotes. I gave them $100.00 and told them drinks were on me for the evening. So yea-I stop when folks look like they need help.

Yes,
Numerous times to help elderly folks,women and a few guys too.

Higgenz: For 29 years I was NOT allowed to change flat tires on my work vehicle (by city policy!) but I quite often assisted "citizens" who had flat tires - especially when it was raining (always!).
As I always carried good rain gear with me when on duty.
When we got a flat tire on our police vehicles the city contracted tow company would respond, lift up our vehicle and slap a new tire and wheel on it.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

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I am 50. No real age limit, probably would have been more accurate to say people who look like they may not physically be up to doing it on their own.

Hundreds.

Yep, more than once. I've done a lot more than that for people that were stranded over the years..

One upon a time, many years ago (1976) I stopped to change a tire on a car that had two girls standing by it. But what first got my attention was that it was a 1965 baby blue Mustang convertible. I was wearing bib overalls and an old felt hat, driving my 1957 turquoise chevy pickup with a 283 dropped in it. I was always a sucker for old vehicles. The 2 girls didnt want anything to do with me and said, we know what were doing you dont need to help, I insisted. Anyway to make a long story short, still married to the driver of the car.
It worked out for me but just as easy could have been a disaster. The car was her fathers and I was in line to inherit it, but many years ago someone stole it and torched it out in the desert.

Few years ago I took pity on what looked like a kid around 19-20 or so that was struggling on a stretch of 54.

Had the jack and spare laying out (credit for getting that far) and was stomping on the iron trying to break the lug nuts loose.

Pulled up and rolled down the window asking if he needed a hand. Little fugger looked up and said "I'm not fuggin' retarded!". LOL

"Well, I'm not so sure. Good luck" and I left him there. Stomping down on a tire iron trying to break lug nuts loose by turning them clockwise.



I no longer avail my services to the able bodied.

absolutely... I was taught to always ask someone if they needed help. I cannot imagine anyone not helping.

Yes, tires, jump starts, pulling out of snow banks / snowplowing / clearing driveways....Funniest time was driving through a state park pitch black dark and rolling up a a car with flashers on and a flat tire. Woman gets out in a clown suit with the appropriate makeup to boot. Turns out she left a costume party her daughter was attending and had no cell phone. I let her call home, put the spare on and sent her on her way. Turns out she was a VP for one on the major cruise lines and encouraged me to book a trip at the special "Friends and family rate"...never did but being able to tell the story was payment enough.

I have for an old couple. The man offered to take me turkey hunting in Alabama. I didn't accept.
I have helped numerous people during my travels to work more than half the time I regretted it. Lots of people having troubles are crazy.

I have a cousin Vince who's two years older than me. He taught me how to work on cars & tractors when we were teenagers. He was a very kind, intelligent, and patient man. If there was a vehicle sitting along the road he was always stopping to assist in any way that he could & taught me to do the same. He worked in the maintenance shop for our state highway department as a diesel mechanic. While at work one day, he inflated a new truck tire in the inflation cage & then rolled it outside to put it on the truck. He was killed on the job when the a new tire blew up as he was tightening the lug nuts. That was 1997 and he was just 45 year old. I think of him often and everything that he taught me.

Last year at the N. TX Rodeo parade, an older gal pulled into the horse staging area and I noticed she had a shredded tire on her gooseneck. I told her I was hanging around while my daughter rode in the parade and I'd be happy to change her tire while she rode in the parade too. She threw me her keys and said she'd see me after the parade. Made me feel good and it was a big relief for her too.

I can't recall if I have ever changed a tire, but I have stopped for others many times. Helped an older lady with some coolant one time on the West side of Wolf Creek Pass in CO. She was heading to Alamosa as her son had had a heart attack that evening and was hospitalized. Also assisted a husband and wife with boat trouble on Lake Oahe one April. Motor quit in a boat they had just bought and he was in neck deep (and damn cold) water trying to keep it off the rocks and work on the motor at the same time when we got there. Towed them about 8 miles back to the launch.

I’ve done it a bunch, working for the highway dept. puts me on the road a lot. We’re not required to stop for stranded folks but it’s not discouraged. I have a service truck with a compressor, the impact makes short work of tire changes, there’s 5 gallons of gas, gonna get another 5 of diesel and there’s oil and antifreeze.

Running out of fuel is common, one stretch of road is 122 miles between gas stations. Met some good people in such instances.

Yes, I have always tried to help out people when I can.

A time or two pre cellphone. Females that looked like they needed some help.

this morning, as a matter of fact

Changed tires, pulled folks out of sand and ditches, minor car repair, put gas in their cars. All years ago when I trusted others and could physically do that sort of thing. Today? Not so much.

Just changed an elderly ladies tire in a neighbors driveway, elderly lady takes a mentally challenged 40ish year old woman to appointments/errands/church.

Honda CRV, they couldn't get the lug-nuts off.
She offered to write me a check for $20, I said make it out for $40 if you can..
Declined any payment & didn't make any jokes to her about $40.

And yes I've stopped and helped people before. Three attractive nurses from New Orleans had a flat on I-10, changed it for them on my way home from offshore drilling rigs. Car was an orange 1969 SS 396 Camaro, she was a motorhead girl and fixed the car up herself and with her boyfriends help. They were headed to Biloxi, my girlfriend and I met them out that night.

Helped people in parking lots hood up before, and a guy whose Escalade had a radiator hose fitting leak, broke down near my house. Took him to the parts store. He'd bonk his horn if he saw me outside when driving past my place.

over

In the late '70's I was deer hunting in a remote area of central Idaho and came across a elderly lady trying to jack up her pick up to change a flat.
I stopped and changed the tire for her. When I'd finished she very graciously thanked me.
The pick up was loaded with bales of hay so I asked if she might need some help unloading the hay. She replied that if I had the time she could sure use the help as her husband was laid up with a broken leg.
So I followed her to her ranch and unloaded the truck. When I finished she thanked me again and tried to give me $100 which I refused.
She noticed my rifle in my truck and asked if I was up there hunting and I said I sure was.
She said give me a minute and went into her house and returned handing me a key telling me it would unlock every gate on the ranch and I was free to hunt there anytime I wanted for as long as they owned the place, just let them know I was there.
I was the only person to have hunted there, other than her and her husband, in nearly 30 years.
Sadly, the ravages of age caught up with them a few years later and forced them to sell and move to town.
They were a great couple and I was very thankful to have had to opportunity to know them.

Not even a ‘handy’ ??

MickeyD,, LIKE !!!!

It's a good feeling to help and give, something self-centered scittbags will never experience.

No they kept the doors locked .

And the second half of the Penthouse Letter?

Because you went into the deal with no expectations and did it because it was right... KUDOS...

I have done it multiple times but honestly not in the last 15-20 years... with everyone with a cell phone now

Yes

Several times. Usually Women and old people. Had a flat myself on the Hi Line Near the town of Malta, MT at night. A border patrolman stopped to help by putting his overheads on to warn traffic and then put the tire on for us. He was just a nice guy since my buddy and I could do it, but maybe he thought we were going too slow.

Yes, changed a few tires, but one time made me more cautious in the future.

Four of us guys were on our way from Wisconsin to Montana to hunt Mule deer. My two door 1992 F150 4x4 had a cap on it and I made a plywood shelf in the bed of the truck were two guys could ride. Driving straight thru we would periodically swap out drivers and others could rest. We got off I94 at Glendive and was on Hwy200S headed for HWY 200 at Circle at about 1000PM. Jake was driving and I was dosing riding shotgun when he pulls over behind a car with the trunk up and a young woman standing there. Just as we walked up and asked if she needed help, two guys jumped out of the car with rifles.

Jake and I both had handguns on us, but the two men had the drop on us. They wanted our wallets and key to the truck. We handed the wallets over and I said the key is in the ignition so they told the woman to go get it. There was a truck door slam, woman screeched and two shotgun blasts that distracted the two men and Jake and I jumped them. Karl and Mike had quietly got out of the bed of the truck and were coming around the side of truck when Mike caught the woman opening the truck door and hit her in the head with the butt of his rifle. Mike fired two rounds just over the heads of everybody from his 12 gauge Benelli.

Dude, crazy story! Glad the good guys won.

I did back when I was a teenager. I was walking to work & there was an elderly couple on the side of the road changing a tire. He was really breathing hard----I told him I'd finish it for him. That spare tire was as bald as they come. I got it on the car & told them they really need to get new tires. They offered me money but I declined. They insisted-----finally I told them to put in the offering plate at the next Sunday's church service.

Those three needed to be stopped permanently

Only if they have big tits.

Boomer and Kingston not included.

I never pull out.

I changed a tire for an old guy who had no spare. I gave him mine with out charging for the tire. A few days later he came by the house with my tire and paid my wife since I was gone. He took my license number and found me.

I have stopped to help people with flat tires, that were stuck and out of gas. I guess I'll keep on stopping to help out if I can.

I had a flat tire on my truck out towards my farm the end of last summer. I stopped and started to change it out. I'm 70 and grey haired like most my age, it was the middle of the day and hot as the blazes. I bet ten younger guys drove past me while I worked on changing the tire.
Most were in these F250/2500 farm service trucks with compressors, welders and a cooler full of ice cold water on the back of the flat beds. Not a single one stopped to ask if I needed help. I didn't really need their help anyway, but the thought would have been nice. A cold bottle of water would have been nice too.

The saying is that: "what goes around, comes around".

Yes I have.

Ron

of course...

but that was before the world was nuts as it is in today's America....

too many meth heads, drug addicts and just plain lazy ass thieves...

as we get older, we need to think less of others and protect ourselves...

I have two different attitudes on the subject...

depends if I am by myself, or I have my wife and/or son in the car....

I don't carry a gun for times like this.. there are too many candidates in this country nowadays, that just don't need to be here anymore as they are nothing but a drain on society for their entire existence....

one has to choose wisely instead of just blindly helping someone who looks like they are in distress...

and yes, I hate sounding that heartless... but I didn't make the world the way it has become.

No but I have stopped to ask if they have called someone

Im busy, I don't have time to change someone elses tires.

yes a few ,but also jumper cables , had a few that had hit deer and were concerned for them so i killed the deer usually had a iron bar or something in the pickup or gravel truck, stopped to kill a moose calf that was in the middle of the hiway as i was concerned that someone would hit it and wreck their car,30 miles to the closest town in winter.

northern Alberta heading to Grand Prairie winter time road is 20 feet wide no shoulders ,right front tire went off the pavement i corrected to fast went 90 degrees 26 ft truck on 20 of road does not work ,over the bank into 5ft of snow and mud . 40 mile from town, thats about a $1000 dollar tow bill.About 5 minutes later a Sow comes along [winch truck used in the oil patch for setting up oil rigs 25 to 30 tons empty] stops we hook mine up he pulls me out in 4 minutes, all i had was a $50 dollar bill he got that and a blessing , and i had no damage to my truck.

norm

Yes I have, a couple of times. Bought gas for a couple of people, picked up an older man walking carrying a gas can, I had passed a car stopped on the side of the road a couple of miles before, filled his can and carried him back, he tried to pay me and I wouldn't take any money for it. It was hot, he was older, I would have been a real heel to have just driven on by. I may be in that same position someday. These days I couldn't do much to help out someone so I might be closer to there than I'd rather be.

Odd one, before everybody had cell phones, I stopped and helped a couple once with an S10 pickup with the hood up and the radiator steaming. The hose neck to the radiator had broken off. I was driving a work pickup back then and had various tools and hardware in the tool box. We screwed a junction box cover with a duct tape gasket over the hole where the hose neck had been and stuck the the broken off hose end in the radiator filler hole and taped it in place. I had two five gallon coolers in the back, one had all the ice melted so plenty of plain warm water to dump in so they could get home or to a repair shop. It wouldn't hold pressure but beat walking for miles. Plastic radiators.

Yes but the most memorable was on I 35 between San Antonio and Austin guy looked to be having a hard time and was on the inside by the median . We stopped as traffic was slowing for him but no one was there with him and he was lying with his tools on the ground. He had been run over by another vehicle and it had severed his leg almost completely into below the knee. His wife was in the car and didn't realize he had been hit. I directed traffic around while Teri gave what aid she could until the first cop showed with an ambulance not far behind. Muscle contracted around the artery pretty much kept him from bleeding out but he was pretty shocked. Found out later that he survived.

Absolutely especially older ladies