Why doesn’t stranded count?
I was in Miami for a doctors appointment that was not fun, and when I got down to my car it wouldn’t start. A couple cars over was a van that was basically a wreck, dents, windows down, barely a paint job, all sorts of tools in it. The owner happened to come out and I asked if he had cables to try to jump the battery, although I knew it probably wouldn’t work. I have never had a battery in FL that would jump.
The guy was a few years off the raft, Cuban, pretty good broken English. He did have cables, and as predicted they didn’t help. He took the battery out of my car, drove me to a nearby Sears, we bought a battery, he drve me back and put in the new battery. Started like a charm. He would not let me give him any money! To this day I wish I had forced him to take some, or that I would have sent him something if I had known his address or something.
Things like this, I have other stories, make me want to do things like that for other people. I am a big believer in pay it forward. I think that attitude makes the world a better place.