"area man" (hurrburgring)
02/23/2015 at 18:57 • Filed to: None
14
13|
"area man" (hurrburgring)
02/23/2015 at 18:57 • Filed to: None | 14
| 13 |
I am currently sitting in Denver International Airport, comfortably ahead of my flight's boarding time instead of biting my nails waiting for the public bus thanks to the kindess of a cool guy named Carlos.
The place where I rented my Versa in Denver is quite a ways from the airport, which itself is really far from the city, so I intended on making the trip via public bus as I did on the way into the downtown area. The bus stop is about a half mile from the rental car place, and As I timed the car's return today I left plenty of time to make the walk in reverse. The only problem is that I did it in 60 degree sunshine last Thursday, and today I'd be dealing with the aftermath of a decent little snowstorm - icy sidewalks and slush lakes abound - while toting a perilously overstuffed roller duffel bag.
So I'm gamely struggling along, continuously hoping that the next block will indeed be the one, even though it never is, when suddenly a man in a 2001 Accord pulls up and asks if I need a lift. I look down the road and see that my bus stop is actually two long blocks away and tell him so, but he insists on taking me the way, and fuck if I'm going to keep walking on these unplowed sidewalks. I throw my bag in the back and hop in.
Carlos is a very cool guy driving a manual Accord (on which I comment immediately after getting into the passengers seat - he chuckled and flicked the shifter back and forth in neutral. "Yeah, it's fun."), and as were waiting at the light to turn to get to my stop he insists on driving me to the bus depot where I would have to transfer to the airport bus. Alright then, I know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth. So we're talking about this and that - the weather, Mexico (he had an awesome accent, and my fiancée is Mexican), life - when he turns to me at a light and says "You know Kyle, as a good last impression of Denver, I'm going to give you a ride all the way to the airport." I almost start laughing because I can't believe he's going to go forty minutes out of his way to drive a stranger to the airport. But he's serious, and takes me all the way to the terminal.
On the way he told me that one time he was in a minor car accident and had to take the bus home, but misinterpreted the map and ended up walking more than a mile to the stop. As he went along his way a kindly stranger stopped to give him a ride, and he vowed one day to do the same. I told him he seriously upped the ante by taking me all the way to the airport, and he smiled. So I guess I have to do something like this now!
So two lessons here - it's ok to get rides from strangers sometimes, and Mexicans really are the nicest people.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:03 |
|
all the feels
|
area man
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
02/23/2015 at 19:06 |
|
yep, still kind of shocked that happened
yamahog
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:07 |
|
Sweet, let me try!
*gets kidnapped*
*le dead*
*only the top story on the news for 2 weeks since I'm not blonde*
*news pundits red in face about SHE DESERVED IT for getting ride from strangers*
*all Kyle's fault, clearly*
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:12 |
|
I'm a big proponent of riding with strangers. My girl is going to school 300 miles away on the other side of the state. Last time I went to visit, I used a rideshare page on FB to carpool there and back. Of course it's luck of the draw, but sometimes it works out great.
On the way home, the guy I rode with pulled up in the 4 door brother of the Legacy GT wagon I myself own. His roommate helps run the big northwest Subaru show, and another friend has a WRX swapped 2.5RS. So we end up talking cars (and head gaskets) for five hours, and he went out of his way to drop me at my front door. It was cheaper, and more entertaining, than driving there and back alone.
Turns out most people aren't murderers!
scoob
> yamahog
02/23/2015 at 19:18 |
|
This is definitely how it'd go here in NY.
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:20 |
|
|
yamahog
> scoob
02/23/2015 at 19:23 |
|
Hello fellow New Yorker!
(Or, in our native tongue, FUCK OFF I'M WALKING HERE)
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:26 |
|
I got a ride once from a guy with a PT cruiser 2.4T manual, because my bike's rear tire couldn't hold air no more. He saw me pushing the bike on the side of the road and drove me to the small parking lot near my house.
I was also bringing my NZXT Phantom PC case home and some random guy with a focus helped me being it home.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> area man
02/23/2015 at 19:33 |
|
Not to the extreme of the Honda Hero, but my policy is: If the weather is inclimate in any way (cold, rain, cold wind, etc.) and I see someone who I recognize walking, even if I don't know their name, I offer them a ride. Obviously I tone this down if it's right after school, because I can't offer a ride to every one of the hundred kids who walk, and also because that would be weird. But once again, people did that for me over and over when I was younger, even people who I hadn't liked, so I always try to repay the favor.
|
scoob
> yamahog
02/23/2015 at 20:43 |
|
I thought you were in/from... Colorado or something? LOL.
(Rated PG version: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY ASSHOLE)
|
yamahog
> scoob
02/23/2015 at 20:59 |
|
From NY, living in the great white Mitten that is Michigan :)
WhiskeyGolf
> area man
02/23/2015 at 21:07 |
|
Jalopinator
> area man
02/23/2015 at 21:48 |
|
Another great Mexican person story is the famous: "today you, tomorrow me" one very in the same vein as this one.