This morning I was leaving work. the battery in my car died, I have jumper cables. I just needed someone to give me a jump. I asked 4 times if anyone could give me a jump before someone actually said yes. I dont understand. It just seems like people today are getting less and less likley to help . I would have been the first to jump up and say, I can give you a jump. what is with people in this world today. Ive worked with these people for 9 months. Immagine if I was a stranger and was stranded, lets say you are driving down the road and you pass a lady with 4 small children, stranded on the road. or you see an old lady at the store struggling with her groceries. How many people here would stop and help????
please give me some kind of hope for the human race today.
2007-04-04 07:30:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I can't believe no one offered to help.....especially since you had the jumper cables.
People are just lazy to offer a few extra minutes of their time these days. I am raising my kids to think of others.....for example my oldest son always runs ahead and holds the door open for me and others. It is such a simple thing, but I have had a door practically slammed in my face as I was struggling to get me and my toddler through.
As far as other people, I was in a parking lot a couple months ago scraping ice off my windshield. A very nice older man pulled up next to my car and started scraping the other side. Very random, but it helped me get into my nice warm car a lot sooner.
The "random acts of kindness" aren't as many as they used to be but there are still those that are nice, helpful and considerate of others.
2007-04-04 07:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by deerogre 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you!! Most people today only think about themselves. And it is a shame. I would stop and make sure the lady had a phone to call for help or something, I probably wouldnt be much help to her being 17 weeks pregnant and not knowing anything about cars, lol. Luckly I live in a semi-small community and there is still some "love" flowing around, but when I go to work and leave my little community, it is like a totally different world.
2007-04-04 07:37:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What I think about this? I think that it stinks! I am 57, been married since I was 14, to 4 different ones, two passed away, when my Mom passed away, I had no one, and I had to start getting out into this social world and doing things, (like financial thing, etc) plus a man I had lived with for 2 1/2 yrs. had a massive stroke, and I had to handle his affairs. I have NEVER in my life seen the mistrusting, lying, greediest people as I have in the last six yrs! I didn't know HOW to handle it and I still don't! I am like you, I am the first person there to help someone, although now I know it is dangerous, but I do it anyway! I have trusted people on here, to my utter disbelief as to what people can do to you. It seems like no one cares anymore! Now on your situation, I did have a very nice guy on one of the coldest, windiest nights, try to start my car with my battery cables. When I asked him, you could see that he was in a hurry and really didn't want to, but he did, and he had problems. It was so cold that he could not get my hood latched properly! I finally told him to leave it, I would drive home slow, it was caught a little, but not closed, but he refused, he said it was too dangerous. He said his fingers were so cold he couldn't feel them anymore and he was trying to get a metal piece on the hood pushed down and couldn't. Well, the guys to the computer business closed up and came out, and I went over there and asked if they could help this man. Same thing, reluctancy, and they were young, but they did, and one of the guys did it immediately. This good man, I tried my BEST to pay him, and he said no way, just a thank you will do. I cried after he left because I had been used to everywhere I went, a door closed in my face, it was NO NO NO on everything I asked for, like they were paying everything out of THEIR pocket, and it sure makes you humble. All of what I am talking about did not happen back in the 80's on down. So I know exactly where you are coming from. I have had several blow ups at people and really lost my cool to where people was looking at me very strangely. I don't know the answer to this, just that this world has gotten so bad, there is no compassion anymore, including the business world. No one wants to give you a break at all, where they used to would have.
Judy C
2007-04-04 08:29:02 · answer #3 · answered by Smokeygirl49 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would definitely help you jump your car. It just depends on the person who is stranded. If you are a young woman stranded, a man should not stop to help you unless he is roadside assistance because you never know who you are going to get. Most of the time it's a safety issue. Otherwise, some people are just jackasses, but not everybody. You at least found someone to help you eventually. That still says something.
2007-04-04 07:39:36 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would definitely help if someone asked me for help, as for noticing someone needing help, I would like to think I would but I'm really bad about being in my own little world and not seeing chances to help others, I guess I just get caught up in what I'm doing. But I would have given your car a jump if you had asked. I think you are right about people helping others now days. Also there is so much crap that goes on these days, I tell my wife when she is alone I would rather her not offer to help stranded people because you never know if they are up to no good, unfortunately it's really hard to trust these days, because a few bad apples have made it that way.
2007-04-04 08:35:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we knew each other and one of us had jumper cables I would be glad to assist you. As strangers the best I could do is call a tow truck for you. Sorry but with all the wierdos out there what can one do? I know what you mean. So many people are caught up in their own lives and are on such tight schedules they don't have time to participate in the lives of others.
2007-04-04 07:41:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that many people just keep on going their way because they think that is the best thing to do. In Malta there is a saying "IL-Pjaciri dispjaciri" this means that when you try to help someone many times it just turns against you and unfortunately during my lifetime that was true many times. I mean I would still help a person in need even if it is a stranger but in reality many people would not. Let's just hope that human race will change!
2007-04-04 08:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by destroyer_marion 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 02:08:25 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what is wrong with your co-workers. Of course I would have given you a jump. I am sure I would have stopped for the stranded lady with children too.
2007-04-04 08:10:31 · answer #9 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes...someone should have at least offered to call a tow for you. I can say that with the way they make cars these days, there is a reluctance to offer a jump because of the percieved risk it poses to the electronics in the engines of newer cars.
2007-04-04 07:37:48 · answer #10 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋