my faith in human nature is partially restored
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Well yesterday, I tried to get to work at an office I am doing some work for about 7 miles away. Only current form of transport is motorcycle. So I managed to get out of my drive, and almost to the main road, the the front wheel touched some ice and slid out, landing on my ankle.
No real damage to either me or the bike, so I got up, took the bike back home and started walking to the office in the snow.
About 4 miles in, some chap in a van pulled over and offered me a lift, took me all the way to the office.
Not such a big thing really, but I have viewed thr world as a simple, violent and nasty place for the past few years. I guess there are a few good chaps out there still.
So to the guy in the brand new vauxhall van (sorry I didn't get your name) who picked up the wierdo walking down the crowthorne bypass yesterday morning arounf 8:45 - I owe you one
No real damage to either me or the bike, so I got up, took the bike back home and started walking to the office in the snow.
About 4 miles in, some chap in a van pulled over and offered me a lift, took me all the way to the office.
Not such a big thing really, but I have viewed thr world as a simple, violent and nasty place for the past few years. I guess there are a few good chaps out there still.
So to the guy in the brand new vauxhall van (sorry I didn't get your name) who picked up the wierdo walking down the crowthorne bypass yesterday morning arounf 8:45 - I owe you one
I always wonder about this, in Scotland you get lots people hitch hiking or broken down in the middle of nowhere and felt sorry for them, considered offering a lift but decided against it. You just never know who you are letting into your car. Perhaps being female it's a bit different, but I just couldn't do it and it always leaves me feeling guilty when I drive past someone in need of help.
Silent1 said:
I spent all day driving round my local lanes dragging cars out and collecting broken down people
My son and I did the same when we had over a foot of snow here in February. It's interesting the way it changes human nature.It would never usually occur to me to pull over and offer pedestrians a lift (we're in suburban Surrey after all, not a remote wilderness), but equally, if I did pull over and offer lifts to pedestrians in normal weather conditions, how many of them would smile their relief and jump in, as opposed to those who would call the police to report the weirdo!
I was talking to another Shogun owner a couple of weeks later at an off-road day. His personal favourite had been the profuse, embarrassed thanks and apologies from the middle-aged lentil weaver whose Micra - complete with Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth stickers - he pulled off the Hogs Back by Guildford at 3am after she'd been stuck up there for 7 hours. All of a sudden, 4x4s were no longer Satan!
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Kit80 said:
You thought the world was a horrible dangerous place yet got in some stranger blokes van? 
I believe the wording I used was simple, nasty and violent.I adjust my attitude to suit
Living in Scotland and often heading for the hills, I have seen many hitchhikers and given them lifts.
Usually I have someone with me,sometimes not,in places like Glencoe and Kintail you can see people who have walked the mountains down the Glen and are then walking back up the road, I offer them a lift, because when it was me as the pedestrian, someone stopped for me.....
Over the years I have met some really interesting people, a guy from Alaska was doing the UK in 10 days by rail, I found him slogging up the side of Loch Ness with a huge backpack, on the scale of Alaska the distance between railway stations in Fort William and Inverness doesn't look much.(Its about 70 miles!)
The UK is a very safe country, how many papers would be sold if they contained good news? It's all part of the 'keeping people apart by creating fear culture', just like the gubberment want us to live in fear.
Usually I have someone with me,sometimes not,in places like Glencoe and Kintail you can see people who have walked the mountains down the Glen and are then walking back up the road, I offer them a lift, because when it was me as the pedestrian, someone stopped for me.....
Over the years I have met some really interesting people, a guy from Alaska was doing the UK in 10 days by rail, I found him slogging up the side of Loch Ness with a huge backpack, on the scale of Alaska the distance between railway stations in Fort William and Inverness doesn't look much.(Its about 70 miles!)
The UK is a very safe country, how many papers would be sold if they contained good news? It's all part of the 'keeping people apart by creating fear culture', just like the gubberment want us to live in fear.
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