Stories of Kindness from Around the World

In The Middle of Nowhere


--by SaraJ22, posted Nov 6, 2007
I was driving home from school one hot summer day when I realized that my car was not working right. I kept driving and prayed that it would hold out the 3 hours that I still had to go. Seconds later, everything in my car died and I barely made it off to the shoulder. 

Knowing absolutely nothing about cars, I popped the hood and proceeded to check the oil (since that's the only thing I knew how to do). As I was doing this, two older men in a truck pulled behind me and asked if I needed help. Of course, I couldn't turn them down since I was so far from home. They could see that I was shaken up and told me to get back in the car and they would take a look to see what was wrong.

After some investigating they informed me that it was my transmission and they could jump my car enough to make it to the service station (just a mile up the road). After charging my car, they led me to the station and went in to tell the mechanic what was wrong. They came back out seconds later to tell me the mechanic was out on a break and probably wouldn't be back (it was a tiny town and was the only station for miles); however, there was a shop with auto parts and would see if they had the right part. They went ahead and purchased the transmission for me and said they could again jump my car enough to drive it up the road to their place where one of them had a shop where he worked on tractors.

I again followed them up the highway to his shop and they began working on my car while I sat in the driver's seat and prayed. After working for about an hour, trying to get the old transmission out and the new one in, they realized that they had gotten the wrong Transmission and would go back into town and get the right one. While they did that, they sent me into the house where his wife had a little hair salon. She offered me something to eat and drink while I waited and just kept me calm with her constant chatter. An hour later the two men appeared again saying that it was all finished and seemed to be running smoothly. I hopped in my car and sure enough everything was working perfectly again.

I couldn't thank them enough for their kindness. I wrote them a check for the transmission and tried to give them more, but they wouldn't accept it, just saying that they would hope someone would do the same thing for their daughter.

I cried and sang and prayed the entire 3 hour drive  home... I just couldn't believe that two men would take 4 hours out of their day to help a complete stranger. I still think about that day and how lucky I was.
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Readers Comments

loretta wrote: Wow, that is so great to hear these days when you just feel you have to watch out for strangers. I love when this sort of thing happens. (smile)
keymaker wrote: That's a beautiful story, Sara! Thanks for sharing!
HapBee wrote: What a wonderful story! I bet you can't wait to pass on that good feeling to someone else! :)
MakeSomeoneSmile wrote: That is a great story, thanks for sharing. That is extremely rare in these days to find anyone to go to those lengths for you. It reminds you that there are people who care and make a difference.
Angel4eva wrote: Thats wonderful I'm so glad that all ended well
Nickgrand wrote: Thanks you and God bless!!
keshavarao wrote: reallay a great story how some one is kind enough, which makes the difference to over come one's difficulities, and giving greateter experience of kindness. Thankyou for sharing the expierence of kindness.
Lovebug wrote: God looked at what he had created and called it good. I believe that. The 2% who are bad, make the other 98% afraid to be kind, I think it due to the suround news of doom and gloom, we live in a age were fear invade the very essence of our being. You were blessed to find 2 who do not listen the the world, but to their hearts, May God honor all of their prayers and keep holding you in the palm of His hand
aarteestic wrote: How heart warming to hear it...and I am always scared of truck drivers since the only news ever flashed about them is driving under influence of drugs or a massive crash. But this story has changed my mindset and I will first think of every truck driver as a kind, gentle human being and then be scared if necessary.
akbj wrote: How absolutely incredible! What a great story. I almost don't know what to say, but I want to say something about how much faith in human nature your experience gives me. Just amazing.

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