The Mom-inator

People Helping People...

I'm driving home from work tonight when my timing belt goes cablooey. This sucks of course because it's about 8:00 at night, it's dark, cold, and I'm a woman alone on the road in a residential area about 5 miles from home.

Before I state the positives of this situation I feel the need to rant a bit here. I'm sitting on the side of the road, I've called AAA, I'm waiting patiently, and the drivers that are coming in my direction are flashing their brights at me and some of them are even honking their horns at me for the imposition of having to edge over into the on-coming traffic lane. Oh yeah, this is truly something I planned, to mess up these poor drivers in their luxury cars and SUV'S...oh the inconvienience...

We are a society of people who claim to want to help others, but did one single car pull over to ask me if I needed help or to see if I was alright???? No. We've become a society of people who only care for ourselves, and when I say this I mean the "me, myself and I" theory of ourselves. Where is the chivalry, the generosity of others, the kindness of strangers? How am I supposed to raise a child to be a caring, decent young man if no one is willing to show THEIR kindness in return for even the simplest of things? What happened to us, and when did we stop being a great nation of people who care for one another? I was sorely disappointed to see that I could have been near-dead or raped and left for dead, and no one would have stopped to help. How sad is that? As it is, I only had a busted timing belt...pathetic, huh?

On a better note; I didn't panic, I pulled out my AAA card and my cell phone, and upon seeing Mr. Tow Truck Driver I was extremely gracious and appreciative of this man being there to help. I try not to take things like this for granted. I just wish that others could be this way as well...

posted by Alley @ 11:29 PM