Spanish Good Samaritan

[Sheddy]

After getting off the ferry in Santander this morning and while heading towards Bilbao the tyrepal alarm let rip. One of the rear tags had a slow puncture and was down to less than 50 psi.
I carry a 12v pump and managed to park up and reinflate it to the normal pressure. As we looked for a repair garage the copilot was keeping me updated on the pressure, it was dropping 1psi about every 5 minutes.
We found a repair centre but unfortunately it was closed. I asked in the nearby Repsol station and they couldn't help
A young lad in the queue spoke English and he checked on his phone 3 other nearby locations again all were closed for the holidays. Eventually he found an open garage but it was 15km away. He put it in my maps, but then said follow me. We reinflated the tyre and 20 minutes later arrived and it was quickly repaired.
I offered the lad some compensation for his time but no way, he wished me well for the rest of my visit and just jumped back in his car and left. I didn't even get his name!
Unbelievable.

 

[OldAgeTravellers]

There are nice people. It’s a shame that the scroats make us so suspicious all the time.

 

[DandJ]

Good on the young lad for doing the decent thing...

Most people on the planet are nice, good, honest etc.....media, social media etc would be boring if it wasn't full of murders, scams and scumbags....

 

[steve69]

Similar in France last year. I was the only vehicle on the Aire in March and the water was turned off (possible frost). As I was pondering what to do - a young passing Frenchman (a farm worker I think) asked if i wanted water. My schoolboy French was enough to communicate with him and he unlocked the cabinet to the stop-tap and turned it on for me. I filled my tank and offered him some Euros but he refused. I tried to give him a bottle of wine but he politely refused that too. I have learned that many people in other countries are far more civilised than they are in the UK in general.

 

[Steve and Denise]

He was after your pickled onions

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[Carpmart]

He was after your pickled onions

Is that a euphemism?

 

[John Barrett]

We English can be OK too you know. I was getting some pressies in town on Christmas Eve and running the gauntlet of the homeless in the doorways. There was a guy about my age scoffing some chips so quickly that I imagined he hadn't eaten for some time. He also had a wonky left eye, just like me! I asked him what he was doing this evening, to which he replied "Not much mate!"
I have to admit I felt good when he thanked me profusely for the fiver I quietly slipped him and left without further dialogue...

 

[L' Hobo]

Is that a euphemism?

Is that a new kind of pickled onion?

 

[Sheddy]

He was after your pickled onions

He could of willingly had them Steve, but this year's brew are safely stored under the lounge seats maturing nicely. Teruel tonight should be on Villasol tomorrow.

 

[fat haggis]

You will always find nice people being nice. No matter where you are in the world.

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[Gromett]

I have learned that many people in other countries are far more civilised than they are in the UK in general.

Did you see my thread on a foreigners view of London, possibly one of the least friendly places in the UK?
Apparently we are better than we think of ourselves.

 

[L' Hobo]

You will always find nice people being nice. No matter where you are in the world.

I've been lucky, in most of the countries I've travelled, I've nearly always met the nice ones but haven't been abroad in the past 5 years.
I hope the world hasn't changed that much?

There's probably some truth in the old saying, ye reaps what ye sows!

 

[Steve and Denise]

Is that a euphemism?

You don’t know about Sheddys Onions!!!!

 

[fishplug]

There are nice people. It’s a shame that the scroats make us so suspicious all the time.

Yeah - it really is.

I remember stopping on the bike on a cold winter's evening as there was a mother and her young (10 ish) daughter stood by the side of the road next to a car with a puncture. I carry survival blankets and basic food/water on the bike at all times so figured I could offer those even if they were waiting for recovery.

The mother immediately made the daughter walk to the far side of the car from me and approached me while 'shielding' her daughter.

I guess it's a natural instinct but it saddened me that even once she'd established that I'd stopped to help and I'd changed the spare wheel for her that she still felt the need to keep her daughter at least a car length away from me.

(she didn't have breakdown and was waiting for her husband to come but he was still at work and would have been over an hour)

She may well have had her reasons but hopefully I helped plant the idea that not all people are bad or out to harm her child.

 

[Shrimp]

I did a good deed a while back.
Out riding my new XBR500 I saw a chap stopped with his bike. I stopped to find he had run out of petrol!
So with the aid of a discarded drink can we decanted some of my petrol into his tank, enough to get him to a fuel station!
No I didn’t take any recompense, it was just nice to help someone!

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[Carpmart]

You don’t know about Sheddys Onions!!!!

Nope!