@rcannon100 179626 wrote:
Ah. I think I see your problem. You actually needed help. That’s not how this works. If you actually need help, and I offer assistance, then I actually have to do something or know something. I actually have to be useful and there is a substantial chance I am not.
No. This only works when there is absolutely no appearance of need or distress. You know, like a cyclist casually sitting on a bench drinking water. Then I can offer assistance without any fear or concern that I might actually have to do something. My liberal guilt is alleviated; I have earned my Good Samaritan merit badge. But absent the need to be useful or to know whether its righty-tightly or lefty-loosey .
I’m pretty liberal, don’t feel too guilty about being relatively well off, and will happily give someone a tube or a ride who needs it or assist with a minor mech if I can. What goes around comes around.
This winter I wore a tire through* such the tube poked out and popped and was walking the bike home when a guy offered me a ride. He had a bike rack on the car so I figured, what could possiblie go wrong? I mean, he was a cyclist.
*Too big for the dollar bill trick.
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