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You are a good person.
This reminds me of something similar that happend to me about 10 years ago when I was spending 2 weeks in Ottawa on business.
We decided to drive down to the US border (can't remember the town, but it had a funky old colonial era fort). I had hired a large 4WD. On the way out of the town we passed a station wagon pulled over on the side of the road, with the bonnet up and the driver peering inside at the engine. I immediately pulled over and walked back to the car. Now, this was when I was in the my early 20's, had a shaved head, large gauge ear-rings in both ears, goatee etc. In other words, just like some skin-head or raver (which I guess I was in those days... the latter that is).
Now, being Irish, I simply assumed there was no problem in pulling over and offering to help, but the guy looked at me very suspiciously. His wife and kid jumped into the car and locked the doors! I kinda laughed at this to myself, but offered to help anyway. To cut a long story short, we tried buying more petrol, a new battery, checking alternator... everything. No dice. I offered my phone so they could call a tow-truck to pick up their car.
The funny thing was that they too were from Ottawa; about a two hour drive. What were the chances of another person passing by who was returning to the same city (over 150km away)? By this time it was late on Sunday night, so I offered them a lift. Even though there were already 3 of us in our car, we all piled in (the kid sitting in the boot!).
Suffice it to say that they were both very pleased and surprised at our help. "Not many people would stop and do what you did" the father told me as I dropped them off at their door.
Personally I think that most people would.
It felt good. Helping people is nice. It makes the world a little bit better.
Finally, like I said above, you too are a good person. Nice feeling, isn't it?
Mr Mephisto
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