Ever Stepped Up?

A little girl having a grand mal seizure, an immobile neighbor in a burning kitchen, a depressed man contemplating suicide, countless baby birds and a mouse that left the nest too soon.

I help when I can.

I don't really like talking about it though.

Offered a girl a ride home one night at 4 in the morning when my cousin and I saw her walking down the street being pursued by a couple guys in a car who kept suggesting she take a ride with them. They didn't seem to want to take no for an answer and she was pretty happy for the offer. Don't know how smart it was on her part to get into a car with a couple of strangers all to avoid getting into a car with another couple of strangers but it all worked out.

Last night Outback Steakhouse forgot to turn their sign on so I told the girl working at the door.

I've been first on the scene at a couple of car accidents and rendered aid until the professionals showed up.

Offered comfort to a few folks in dire straits. Nothing overly heroic.

What worries me a little bit is what might happen if I come across someone abusing an animal. Nothing, but nothing pops my cork like cruelty to animals.

Animal abuse is a tricky intervention. You aren't so much about to protect an animal as mug someone for it.

Wasting whiskey is an offense to the whiskey gods.

Damn it! How do my honeymoon videos keep getting leaked onto the internet?

Interesting motivation, helping out as a selfish affair, less about empathy and more about sleeping at night.

Guess what? Jokes on you, it still means you care.

Well then don't.

Speaking of hitchhikers, a lot of folks move here to retire, so we have more than few elderly folks walking around, and on two separate occasions I was asked for a ride. The first time I was waiting at a stoplight when an octogenarian and his female companion walked up to my car and knocked on the window. They wanted a ride to CVS (a pharmacy type of store) what the heck, I gave em a ride. I offered to drive them back but they were sure they could find a ride home.

The second time was much like the first, an elderly woman knocked on my window at an intersection and wanted a ride to the bus stop. Again no problem.

I've been on the other side of the equation as well. Once I wrecked my car, no injuries but the car was dead. Thankfully somebody stopped and gave me a ride to a pay phone.

I don't know if I would think of them as direct and resourceful or downright cheeky for treating me like a taxi.

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I dunno, it sounds like one of those neighborly things that would happen in a country where people weren't paranoid that any stranger could be a rapist or a murderer.

Didn't say I didn't.

And I haven't. But Hood managed to get his knickers in a knot regardless.

Or a city that doesn't have Access-A-Ride.

Clyde must have a very trustworthy face.

Have never had to intervene but I wouldn't mind intervening in a situation similiar to your avatar

In high school I was on a date and when we were driving around talking after dinner, we were flagged down by another couple walking on the side of the road. The man had been attacked with a knife and was bleeding profusely. I put them in the back of my pickup and hauled them to the nearest emergency room. After that, I went to a car wash to wash out the blood, but the bed of that truck still had that "coppery" smell for more than a week after.

My parents were pissed when they found out what I'd done. "We could get sued!!!"

I just did what I thought was the right thing. He lived.

Few days 9-11 I was in a Barnes and Nobl and a girl of Mideastern decent was in there and two older guys starting harassing her, calling her names, telling her to get back to her sandni**er country. I stepped in and basically told to fuck off and asked if they even knew where she was from.