You've read posts like this and so have I. Yet they never fail to touch me in some way and remind me why I believe humanity is inherently good.
Yesterday I was pulling out at a light when my car decided to have problems. Turns out my little ol' stick shift no longer wanted to go into gear. Well that's obviously an issue, because I was at a light and the people behind me had no way around.
Of course I began to panic a little, having no idea what to do, and now my sister and I were going to be late for our lunch with Grandma. I figured we'd call our mom and she could come help us or something, but that didn't help the prior behind me, though I did remember to turn on my hazard lights.
Luckily for us, a construction worker across the street noticed our trouble. He came over quickly, figured out what was wrong, cleared a path for the poor lady stuck behind me (by now she'd missed probably three rotations of the light) and helped me and my sister flip a u-turn so we could pull over on the side of the road. He managed all this in maybe give minutes and all very kindly, with a smile on his face and patience as he shoved my little blue car down the street.
About five minutes later, my sister and I pulled up to the same light in our family's minivan. This construction worker was still standing there, and I believe we had a small moment of mutual amusement imagining what might happen if this car broke too.
So that's my Faith in Humanity post. That nice man saved me a lot of stress and panic, and his kind spirit and wide smile despite the labor and the heat of the day made the whole situation almost amusing. People like that make the world spin round, I think.
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