Tuesday, December 31, 2013

To the man in the Home Depot parking lot

I don't know your name. I don't know if you're from around here or were just in town for the holidays. I don't know what business brought you to Home Depot on Saturday, but I would like to say 'thank you'. I know the odds of this man reading this are non existent, but I still feel like I should write this anyways.

 Let me explain what happened. My Husband and I had ventured out to Home Depot to buy some drill bits for a project we were working on. When we got into our car it wouldn't start. We jump started our vehicle and then foolishly put our 1 pair of jumper cables back in our truck and drove on to Home Depot. When we got into our car after we had made our purchase we discovered that our car wouldn't start again. And we had left our jumper cables at home. We flagged down a man and son who were parked by us but they didn't have jumper cables either. They seemed like they would have helped if they could have-so thank you  to them as well.   We decided that it would be easier to flag someone down to help jump start our car if we had jumper cables so we went back in to the store and bought some.  Before that though we were sitting in our car (because it was very cold out and we were looking up automotive places on our phones) with our hood up, and I was watching cars go past and not one of them noticed us sitting there in need of help. After we did our part and bought jumper cables a man in a truck parked by us. Thankfully the people who shop at hardware stores are generally the same sort of people so my husband communicated with this man through hand gestures without the man having to turn off his truck,  and he swung his truck around and helped us jump start our car and helped us determine if it was the alternator or the battery.  We then took our car to automotive places and got a new battery.
My point is that this man went out of his way to help us. He didn't know us, He didn't have to help us, but he chose to. In a world where most people only look out for number 1, its nice to see examples of  service still alive and well.
To this man, Thank you for taking time out of your day to help. It might seem like it was a small thing but it wasn't to us.



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