Sometimes being nice has it's own paybacks

[SeaCat]

Today as I was coming home from work I got stuck in traffic. Up ahead I could see the drawbridge was up. It was 90°F+ and I was sitting over a hot engine. I shut the bike down.

Up ahead I could see a nice older car. It was a Dodge Dart, a car I was more than a bit intimate with. This one looked to be on good condition. I could see it when the drier shut it down.

After fifteen mintues when the bridge still hadn't gone down I pulled out and lit up a cigar.

After twenty minutes the bridge finally started moving and I fired up the bike. I watched the Dodge kick out a few puffs of smoke but it didn't seem to start.

When the cars started moving and the Dodge didn't I knew there was a problem. I pulled to the side of the road and walked up to the car. The owner was an older gent trying to start the car. He looked at me in surpirise as I told him to hold my cogar and put the car in neutral so I could push it to the side of the road.

I grunted the car to the side of the road then popped the hood. It didn't take me long to find the problem, a wire had come loose. I got the car started and running.

The old guy handed me my cigar back then told me to hang on a minute as he popped his trunk. Before I knew it he was handing me four boxes of Cuban Miniatures. At first I tried not to take them but he insisted. In the end I found myself putting four boxes of 50 miniatures in my cargo box.

I just lit up one of them. Talk about a taste of heaven.

Sometimes being nice has a nice payback.

Cat

 

[angelicminx]

Awesome story, Cat. I don't get here much anymore, but I find myself looking for your posts. Thank you for sharing your life. It makes me feel better to know there are people like you in the world. People that will help their fellow man just because they need help.



Minx

 

[TheeGoatPig]

What year Dart was it? My father has owned two. A 75 and a 63. The 75 was a manual transmission and the 63 had a push button automatic. I think both had straight 6 engines.

 

[glynndah]

I once dated a guy who drove a Dodge Dart with one of those push button transmissions. The guy wasn't all that great, but I did like that little car.

 

[3113]

The old guy handed me my cigar back then told me to hang on a minute as he popped his trunk. Before I knew it he was handing me four boxes of Cuban Miniatures.

You helped out Fidel Castro!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You bring back memories.

Back in 1967 I helped a cutie fix her car and got invited home. On another occasion I changed a flat tire for two women, who immediately drove to where I worked to complain that I needed deoderant. You just never know whats gonna result from a good deed.