Stories of Kindness from Around the World

While driving from my home on the long commute to work I noticed a car in front of me had a wobbly wheel.

It was clear the wheel had been changed recently and had not been fixed correctly. On a slow road this would not present much of a problem but I knew the route and knew a motorway was coming soon where the traffic would move much faster and would be very dangerous as the wheel could very well come off at that speed.

I was driving a large jeep at the time and the car in front was a small to mid-sized car driven by a lady on her own. So as I tried to flash my lights and wave her to pull over I was worried that looking in her mirror she would see a lone man chase her down in a jeep waving frantically for her to pull over on this side road.

Thankfully she trusted more in the good nature of people and pulled over where I could explain the problem. She confirmed the wheel was changed only the night before and said she would pull into the next garage before the motorway where they would have the tools to fix the wheel correctly.

My belief is the act of kindness was hers and not mine. How so? Well it was her who chose to trust in the possibility that people are good over the belief that bad things come from being waved over to the side of the road by strangers. I do preach caution and would have hesitated myself to pull over to the side should a stranger in a car wave me over.

I will never know, thankfully, if the wheel may have come off and caused a serious accident but it was risky and at the very least might have caused damage to her car, so for that I am glad I was able to wave her down. But I am more glad she trusted in a stranger.