have you ever helped a total stranger?

[vshah]

i've carried old ladies' shopping bags to their cars a few times, and once i drove lost tourists back to their hotel in DC

-Vivan

 

[CRXican]

I know I have but don't recall anything too recent.

 

[Juno]

I have. I drove college students from bar back to campus and I didn't even know who they were. They gave me tip for getting back to the campus.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Not as often as I should.

 

[meltdown75]

many times. hitchhikers, people broken down, pushing dumbasses out of the snow, etc.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Yep.

- M4H

 

[robphelan]

sure... few weeks ago helped a volunteer fireman. had a flat tire and was walking to the nearest convenience store to buy fix-a-flat. picked him up, took him to the store, went back and made sure it worked...

 

[Pciber]

every day at work, circuit city.

besides work, sure.. just small stuff once in awhile, though.. giving directions to lost strangers, stuff like that.

 

[OverVolt]

yup whenever i have the time/means to help and they don't look really sketchy. i dont have a problem helping someone out who geniunly needs it, even strangers.

 

[desk]

you gotta pay it forward, man!

 

[dquan97]

helped an old lady last night with her broken down car.

 

[KEV1N]

I helped a guy change a flat on his Pasaat at a gas station.

 

[meltdown75]

i hitchhiked home from Woodstock '94. upstate NY all the way back to hicktown, Ontario. after an experience like that, you feel a little more for people that are down on their luck.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

I try every chance I get.

 

[FoBoT]

sure
2-3 months ago i was on my way to work very early in the morning, i stopped for gas and a guy asked if i would put some gas into a can for him, he had run out of gas up the highway a ways and had no $
i put gas in his can, drove him to his van and gave him $5 to get more gas to get home

no biggy/pay it forward/good karma and all that jazz

 

[GeekDrew]

Yeah... I've helped random strangers sometimes

 

[jadinolf]

I helped her take off her.................

Never mind.

 

[pclstyle]

helped one off my porch with a shotgun

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

A couple of times. I went to the local one-stop-shop grociery/electronics/blah blah blah store on a rainy day and this bum was sitting under the overhang near the door trying to keep warm. He asked for some money to get something to eat so I gave him a $10 spot and smiled and continued on to the store to pick up crap, and he followed me in and went into the grociery section. I don't remember what I was headed to buy, but when I came out, he was sitting back in the same spot with a bottle of wine, chugging away. :roll: :| I told him to fvcking get a job and went home.

that was the last time I've ever given a hand-out to anyone I didn't already know, and it will remain the last.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Yeah. Helped a guy push his car through a busy intersection and into a parking lot (~200 feet) in the middle of the night. Bought a guy some groceries because he was hungry. Stuff like that.

Caught a lady in Tokyo subway when she fell backwards near the top of an escalator. She acted like I was trying to steal her bags... helping out doesn't always work out the way one would hope.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Yeah. Helped a guy push his car through a busy intersection and into a parking lot (~200 feet) in the middle of the night. Bought a guy some groceries because he was hungry. Stuff like that.

Caught a lady in Tokyo subway when she fell backwards near the top of an escalator. She acted like I was trying to steal her bags... helping out doesn't always work out the way one would hope.

Yeah, I know...I've gotten so I don't really trust people enough to help them anymore.

 

[TheNinja]

If by "helping a total stranger" you mean "uppercutting a total stranger in the face for absolutely no reason", then yes, I have helped many total strangers.

 

[Yossarian]

yes, but I don't brag about it, even anonymously

 

[cpals]

The first thing that comes to mind is one time I was coming out of where I work (a grocery store) after buying some groceries and there was this large woman (maybe late 50s) with a baby. She was asking everyone for a ride because her son couldn't pick her up or something. So, after almost just avoiding her, I decided to help her out and offered to give her a lift... not knowing where she lived. So I'm driving this lady and we're just doing small talk and she's like 'you're very nice and brave considering you don't know me and you wouldn't know if I tried to rob you and stuff' so I'm getting a little nervous, but I just try driving her as quickly as possible to her destination, which turned out to be downtown in the ghetto. So after taking a few lefts and rights I finally got her dropped at a gas station by her house - she didn't want me coming any further 'cause she said I could get shot! So I did a quick prayer and got out of there in speedy time.

So that's my short heroic adventure.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Pciber
every day at work, circuit city.

it's not really the same if you get paid, now is it?

I have, though not as much as I would like.