I got myself in a real pinch in the middle of nowhere Louisiana in the middle of a cross country trip. These good guys saved my ass! The world still has good people.

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revowanderlust on December 6th, 2018 at 03:35 UTC »

Were you going to shell city

slaps knee

jjjam on December 6th, 2018 at 04:18 UTC »

I was somewhere in North Dakota or Montana, hoping to end my trip in Washington. My car started smoking, I stopped and popped the hood and it started spraying hot fucking fluid everywhere. The local shop was open-ish, but after a cursory glance those idiots just told me that my head gasket was cracked and I should give up.

A guy came up to me in the parking lot (it was a a tiny fucking town so the shop, the gas station, the vfw, and the local diner were all pretty much one structure) told me he used to be a mechanic and did I want some help. I told him yes, I was pretty fucked (did not have the money for repairs to continue on, everything had already been put into the trip). He agreed to help me, then realized he needed more tools, ran over to a local person's house to borrow tools from a friend (he didn't like the shop owners, either) came back, wiped everything down and finally found a little tear in one of my hoses that was shooting the oil back onto the engine making it look like a head gasket leak. He didn't have any tubing on him, so he cut the lines to where they were still good and managed to juuuuuuust stretch them far enough to reconnect them. While he was doing, it took a couple hours for the whole process, he told me about why he was a mechanic with no tools. He had just gotten out of jail and was trying to build himself back up, but while he was in jail his business partner had taken control of their shop and taken all of his tools, etc. When he finished we talked about payment, I had no cash and very little ability to pay anything at all. He was totally fine with that and just asked for whatever I could give to help him out. I ended up writing him a check for $100, which was hundreds of dollars less than what I would have had to spend to get my car towed 60 miles to the next tiny place and get the problem fixed correctly (which I couldn't have remotely afforded, I was completely SOL when he helped me). I had to write a check out to a stranger in the 2010's, which he had no assurances wouldn't bounce. AND I had to write the check out to his girlfriend because he had just gotten out of jail and didn't have a bank account. That guy fucking saved me.

TayPace on December 6th, 2018 at 05:18 UTC »

“The kid was alright until he asked us to pose for a photo of us to put on the internet. Really fuckin weirded me out.”