Are people still nice?

This would have been a question I would never have giving thought too, but awhile ago I had a reason to fully appreciate the ‘niceness’ of people.

I went out with a friend’s car to help him out with a few stuffs. And the car decided to show its superiority in terms of ability to sweat me out. All of a sudden the car stopped right there in the middle of the road! What the heck? I thought to my self. But even before I could phantom what the problem was I got someone, without even asking, who volunteered to help push the car. And he did. And I thought that was the end. How wrong could I have been? That was just the beginning. But I was so determined to get the car home that no thought of giving up crossed my mind.

And so the story continued till I was almost home, about some 12km, and caught in a slow moving traffic, when again the engine died. I’m sure now that you are wondering why I didn’t get a mechanic or a towing truck. Gosh! Don’t even go near that. This is an emerging economy and so things like that don’t work so easily. Not with the traffic and all constraints to getting a towing truck to you on time. And there is the ‘Area boy’ (a nomenclature we use to describe all manners of vagabonds, and miscreants, who will, if you are not careful, stylishly and boldly relieve you of any thing that they can easily make off with.

Now it was getting late, when this nice clean Camry 2005 model, slowed down and one of the occupants asked 'what is the problem? 

‘Wish I knew’ was the reply I gave. They moved on with the traffic a little and I thought that was that till the guy that asked the question came down from the car and came back to me. At this particular time I was no longer thinking about the car but about the fact that someone that I didn’t not know would stop in his own track to help me out. Really that was a major energy and morale booster. 

Well he couldn’t do much but the decision to help was really a life saver.

I did eventually get home even with all the stress from the car. But I still can’t help thinking, people really can be nice.