Observed the unwritten rule (1st time)

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[Antibilly]

your right my friend! I pick Nads up all the time!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Curly]

Yep...it's the same way with bikes to! I was vacationing and was in the Grand Canyon when we happen to see this guy pushin' his Panhead. He ran out of gas when he forgot to take it off of reserve at the last fill up. Went and bought a gas can and gas and came back and gave it to him. He gave me a card and said if I was ever in Portland to stop in and get a freebie Tattoo...His name was "Rusty Needles" a couple months later a Tattoo mag had a write up on the guy and his shop! Still feels good and that was 7-8 years ago!

[beatnik]

You always got to stop and ask if you can help out. It doesn't even matter if it's someone you don't like, cause someday it could be you, and in the end it does feel good to do something good.

[buzzard]

You reap what you sow, daddy-o.

[4t64rd]

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your right my friend! I pick Nads up all the time!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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uh... nevermind.

[BLAKE]

Three Saturdays ago I was headed home from the parts store and saw an older black couple on the side of the road, hood up, trying (unsuccessfully!) to stop traffic. I spun around and asked 'em what was up. They were from Nebraska and down here to visit family, and they were outta gas and money. I live about a minute away from where they stopped, so I ran home, grabbed a 5-gal gas can, filled it up, poured it into their tank, and sent them on their way.

Good karma.

[Rainer]

this is the way it should be - good for heart and head!!

[manyolcars]

A couple of years ago I was riding down the Interstate with a girlfriend when I spotted a tiny dot about 3 miles down the Interstate. Being the smart ass that I am, I said, "Look, a Harley Rider outa gas." She said, "Where?" I said, "See that dot?" She thought I was fullashit until we pulled up to a guy that had run outa gas in sight of 2 gas stations, but they were 3/4 mile away and uphill on a HOT day. No fun to push a Big Ol Harley that far!

[MrExotica]

A couple weeks ago, my brother & I were in a large caravan to a show at Volo auto museum. The group was waaay too big to stay in one piece. Anyway, some guy pulls into the center median, without a second thought, we pulled in behind him. He needed a jump for whatever reason I forgot. Anyway, we helped him out & were on our way.
Later that day, at the show, he searched me out & thanked me again. I hadn't expected it, but it sure felt nice.

Even with our "un-club", our group of friends, if someone gets separated from the caravan, we wait.

[Boones]

beginning of summer I was having problems with my coil (did not know it at the time) and was pulled over and had this guy on a custom harley stop to see if he could help.. I try to help others so it is nice when someone attempts to help you when you need it....

[TV]

I tell ya guys, I love to hear this stuff.We always need to help our fellow Hot Rodders/Bikers or old car guys. I try to the best of my ability, and sure hope everybody else does to.--TV http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Deyomatic]

I don't believe in Karma at all, it seems whenever I stop to help someone, MY car breaks that same day, or my dog bites me or some shit. But I stop just the same.

A couple of months ago I was heading up to Prescott to hand out with a buddy. After the HUGE hill on I-17 there was a bright orange 55 Chevy pickup on the side of the road. It looked like it was plucked from the pages of Street Rodder. I stopped anyway, in my Mitsubishi. I think they were a little confused at first. Well, I told them that my OTHER car was a 55 Fairlane and I'd want them to stop if they see me. It seems his fuel pump gave out on him while traffic was backed up, so his son came up to help him out. They had a hell of a time changing it, I was going to offer to put it in for them, but I didn't want to "insult" the father, by making him think that I thought he was doing it wrong. I offered up what tools I had and gave them a hand until they had it under control.

[fatluckys]

Last time I stopped to help somebody, I ended up locked out of my car with the engine running, blocking traffic! Luckily, a guy with a slim jim stopped and helped me. Instant Karma.

[maud]

Me and the old lady were on my Harley toolin down a turpike in Oklahoma, came up on a stranded Dodge van. He said the water pump had gone out early that morning. Someone stopped and gave him a ride to a parts store, got a new pump, tools,water and brought him back. He swapped the pump, filled the rad up, tried the starter.....dead battery! He had left his flashers on all day and drained the batt! I had a small home made pair of jumper cables with me for my bike, told him they probably wouldn't work. Hooked them up....vrooom! He slammed his hood and took off like a scalded dog. When I got to the next toll booth the attendant said my toll had been paid by a guy with greasy hands driving a van.

[hankcash]

FYI....
Don't ever follow the Coollows to/from an event if you are not into stoping and helping other rodders.
We are notorious for breakdowns, but have never not made our final destination....(knock on wood)
HC

[TV]

Maud, Now thats Cool--TV http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Deyomatic]

Oh, I fogot, there was this ONE time that some lady in a newish BMW 7series was having a tough time starting her car. I walked by and asked if she needed any help, she said that she'd left the interior light on or something and probably just needed a jump. I pulled my Chevy over to her Bimmer and hooked the cables up, her batt was in her trunk. She got in and it started right up. I took the cables off and threw them in the trunk. I half expected her to get out of her car and thank me, hell with a 7 series Bimmer, I half expected she'd offer me some dough. I wouldn't have taken it, though. This bitch didn't even get out of the car to thank me, she just waved from inside the car while talking on her cell phone.
Gratitude.

[Fat Hack]

Fatluckys...I can relate to your story! I stopped to help some young gal out who had just slid her dad's K-car into a ditch (might as well offer to take the plate off for her, right? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif).

It was POURING down rain and late at night. I was soaked before I ever covered the few yards from my car to where she stood...and I had just locked my keys in a running car to boot!

I put my off-road driving skills to work and managed to drive the K-car out of the ditch just as the cops and wrecker showed up. The cop opened my door with his slim-jim and I drove home drenched and muddy!

Earlier this summer, I stopped on my mini-bike to offer some guy pushing a high dollar dead custom Harley home after it quit. He said it just up and died, and that he ONLY had less than a mile to go...wish I woulda had a tow strap handy...THAT woulda been a Kodak moment!!

I always stop for people in trouble...or run to their aid...

...This one time, a frantic guy comes huffing and puffing into the store I was working at and says he can't get the key to work in his Jaguar parked a few blocks away. I told him I'd look at it while he called his brother to fetch a spare key.

I jogged to his car, jumped in and tried the key. The column was just bound up...I gave the wheel a tug and the car fired up. Happy that it was an easy fix...I threw it in gear and whipped the car around racing it back to our store.

As I pulled into our lot I noticed a VERY terrified looking woman in the passenger seat and two more in the back!!! I had been so focused that I hadn't even NOTICED them!! The guy came running out of the store happy as could be...while we tried to ease the minds of the three ladies in the car!!

(They didn't speak English and thought they were being kidnapped...funny that they never moved a muscle or uttered a sound!!!)

[Deyomatic]

Hack, that is messed up. You didn't see them in the car? Were you working at a head shop? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Von T, I don't make it a point to stop for everything, just people with old stuff or new stuff that I might be able to help with. Otherwise, that's what AAA is for.

[Chuck Fish]

does'nt always work that way,I alwaya stop no matter what,but my 36 pu stopped with out warning last year and three people I know blew past me like I was'nt even there.Yes they saw me on the side of the road with the hood open,they all waved as the went past. One of them was even driving his rollback! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Chuck Fish

[MoFoMOD]

like all of us, I have been the guy stranded many times without anyone stopping for a long time or at all it sucks. but I have also had the pleasure like so many of my fellow Southern Californians been car jacked by a guy who was "in Trouble" and waiving me down. (thank god it was a company car) My rule now is if it is an old car or a woman, I'll stop...if not, you better have AAA

[Kinky6]

Yeah, I've stopped to help a few folks along side the road. I had read the first few posts on this topic before I left work at lunch to go by the truck terminal to get a '29 pickup cab that just arrived from Minn. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif On the way, I stopped to check on a guy who had his head under the hood on the side of the road, he had it under control.

This topic reminds me of an old gal, about 75 or older, that lived in Raleigh, NC, years ago; she had this little red and white Nash, a Metropolitan. I'd see this thing in traffic every few weeks, and stopped to compliment her on it at the recycling bins one day. About a year later, I was pulling into a shopping center, and saw the little car in this large crowded parking lot. As I was walking towards the store, I saw this gal walking out into the lot and looking around; she looked like she was confused about where she had parked.

I walked up to her, and said something like "Ma'am, your car is about six rows over, and another ten cars down on the right." She thanked me, and headed for it. It just amused the crap out of me that she never asked how I knew what she was looking for, or how I knew where it was. Maybe stuff like that happened to her all the time.

Maybe its just something about cool old cars? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


Later, Kinky6 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[BELLM]

I stop for women, old folks, old cars & bikes. Usually someone with a flat tire. Gotta lotta karma built up. About 20 yrs ago was on 59 inside the loop in Houston, hot August day, lady stopped on shoulder flat tire. She rolled her window down 1/4" told her I would put her spare on ( me wearing slacks, tie, dress shirt) she said no, would wait for a cop to stop, about that time one drove by, told her looked like long wait. Told her I had a pistol in my trunk, that I would go get it, she could hold loaded gun on me while I changed tire. She started laughing, got out opened trunk I changed tire she offerred money I refused. She pulled out past me as I was sitting in car cleaning my dirty hands, rolled her window down threw something in thru my open window, floored it & left. Unwadded paper was a $10 bill. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[SKR8PN]

Most of my good deads are done right here in my driveway! I live far enough out that about once a week,SOMEONE runs outta gas. I always try to have some extra,just for emergencies.
You wanna see somethin' funny? Picture me on my JetSki,towing a 24 foot cabin cruiser,that was outta gas, across Pleasant Hill Lake........I get to do that a couple of times every summer.

[Fat Hack]

Deyo- They sat so STILL and didn't move...all dressed up in winter garb...I probably thought they were packages of Christmas gifts if my mind registered them at all...

...you'd THINK that a person would be a little more active or make NOISE if a strange guy jumps in the car and goes racing off!!!

Some people...shhheeeeessh!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Detonator]

Great stories, especially yours Hack. Lucky they weren't packin.' You guys that cruise South on 101 to Paso know there's not much between King City and San Miguel. I pulled into that gas station about a half hour below KC and there was a gal sittin' there almost in tears.She had a flat and the kid in the station wouldn't help. Son of a bitch was sitting in the office with his feet up, told me it's "not part of his job." I changed the tire no problem, and as she was pulling out she drove by and handed me a bottle of good wine. I told her she didn't have to do that, but she said go ahead and take it. She was a sales rep for one of the Paso wineries and had a trunk full of it. Stupid kid missed out http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Fat Hack]

I can't count all the times I've stopped for someone...and usually I end up with a good story to tell afterwards. Here's one that's not as wild as the temporary abduction story...

About ten years ago, I was driving on a dark country road out near Ann Arbor when I heard a loud BANG from just up ahead. I topped the hill and saw a mangled deer and a totaled Escort all over the opposite lane. I stopped and ran up to pull the door open on the car when this young black girl got out in tears on the verge of hysterics. I got her calmed down and asked if she was okay.

Her seatbelt did the job and she didn't look injured, but she was crying her eyes out. Looking over her obviously totalled car, I tried to find words to soothe her. Finally, I just offered, "I think I can help you locate a good, reliable car to replace this one...I happen across cheap used cars all the time."

She stopped sobbing for a second and said "Fuck the car...it's my brother's...I'm upset about the DEER!". I couldn't help myself, I cracked up laughing and she finally started to giggle a little through the tears. A sheriff car arrived a few minutes later and by then we were to the point of cracking jokes!

I drove home still laughing to myself about the whole thing! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[truth]

Fat Hack, just saw your quote... dude, Stewie rules!

[Model A Vette]

My first "rescue" was a stretch Caddy limo stuck on a bridge in NYC. I was driving my first car, a '60 Renault Daphine. The limo was stuck just before the crest of the bridge and needed a push to the top so he could coast off to his garage. I pulled up behind him and offered to push him over. He laughed, but I told him I was serious. I used every one of those 32 hp in my little 4 cyl but he made it off. I guess I was just trying to prove a point!

[SAVAGE]

I help people all the tikme. A while back There was a guys topped right in the middle of the 118 near my house. people sat there honking and yelling. I pulled off to the side. Went up to his window. He didn't even know his name. He was dazed. I moved his car off the road as people are yelling. He was diabetic. I called the parametics. He was passed out by the time they got there. They got him all tuned up an I left. I think what goes around comes around. There are alot of Assholes out there. (like the people honking) Just don't be one!!!!!!!!!

[Gr8ballsofir]

I stop for anything old, people or cars. I flipped a car end for end when I was a teen. It sat on it's roof with the tires spinning while cars just drove right by (2 lane dirt road). Finally a couple of kids in an old caddy stopped and picked us up and took us to a nearby bar so I could call for help. I got into the bar and realized I'd dropped my wallet in his back seat. Never saw it again...

Several years later I was driving a car, I had just bought, on I-94 (downtown Detroit). I lost a tire and when I pulled over I realized that, not only didn't I have a jack, but no spare either!! An old black couple pulled over to offer help but there was nothing they could do... Kinda scary because they wouldn't get out of the car just sat there until I approached them. Finally a cop pulled over and called us a tow truck. Some friends of mine put a car up on its side on the same stretch and some friendly Detroiters pulled over and offered to relieve them of their leather jackets.

A couple of years ago on the way home from Vegas I was driving through a rough stretch of desert and drove past a n older Lincoln with yellow smoke coming out from under the hood. There were 3 elderly folks just sitting in the car. I pulled a U-turn and headed back to see what I could do. They were pretty surprised to see an old Desoto pull up behind them! I put my hood up to cool the car off while I helped out. Turns out they blew a heater hose, so I tried to help him the best I could with some Duct tape and a gallon of coolant and went on my way. The old guy tried to forced a 20 on me before I left but I wouldn't take it. As I was standing there talking to him I watched several "rods" flying past on the other side without even slowing down.

I don't expect help, 'cause people are selfish, but it means a lot when it happens...

[Tman]

I thought Unwritten Rule # 1 was NOT to trust your mistress when she says she is on the pill? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tomslik]

oh hell, what's you mistress look like?
i've been "fixed"

[59FORD]

I seem to be a stupid magnet. About 3 times a year there is always an accident in front of me. It's amazing how many people see an accident happen and then just keep going. I'm usually the first on scene to help. I run from car to car to check for injuries and then turn the car off and put the keys on the floor (even disconnect the battery if possilbe). Turning the car off is just as important as checking for injuries. Almost everyone leaves the keys in the on position, not relizing it could catch on fire.
I stop for the same things as every else commented on, just add real 4x4 rigs (not mall cruisers).
What comes around goes around.

[Kinky6]

Yup. Last night, I was coming home from my club's Christmas party, I'm on an elevated causeway with 3 lanes in each direction. Suddenly, there are brake lights, people switching lanes like crazy, chunks of rubber bouncing on the road, and the smell of burnt rubber. I see a small van pull off beside the railing, and I pull off in front of it and turn on my flashers.

The driver is a woman, with an Astro van packed full of her flea market merchandise. Her front right tire has shredded. I have to show her how to set her parking brake & turn on her 4 way flashers. (I thought people should know this stuff already!?) She has a small hydraulic jack that won't go high enough. I have to show her where her other jack is, and that won't go high enough, either!

Of course, I don't have a jack in my truck either, so I'm no help. (I'm going by Harbor Freight tomorrow, though http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif) She calls a cousin to go buy her a bigger jack and come meet us. Meanwhile, no cops have stopped, its below freezing with a mean wind chill, to boot.

After a waiting in my un-heated cab long enough for a short nap, her cousin brings a bigger jack. And right behind him is one of my club members, Don Heacock, in his red '40 Ford. He'd spotted my '57 Chevy truck on the side of the road, an had to make about a 4 or 5 mile loop to get back to me. Using the new jack on the frame and the smaller hydro one on the a-arm, we get her spare on. Damn Astro must have the suspension travel of a Hum-vee! Anyhow, I just wanted to say how much I appreciated having a club member stop and help me, even though it wasn't me that was broke down. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Later, Kinky6.

[Bigcheese327]

Ironically, the one time I've had trouble (my dizzy died outside of Caro) three or four classics passed and just waved. One was another '68 Camaro even! Thank God for cellphones.

[Mongo]

I pulled over to help a lady during a snow storm in Michigan. She put her car in a ditch. I told her I could hook up a strap to her car and pull her out and she thanked me for helping her.I told her she was the second pregnant women that I had helped out of a ditch that day , and she said " I'am not pregnant" and I said " your not out of the ditch yet"

[Pontiac Slim]

Its 2 AM in Febuary. Colder then hell here in Maine. Seez tail lites down off the road. Turns around to check out. A Maine State Trooper! I pulls him out with the 4x4.
That spring I was try'n to locate a State cop to do the paper work on my hot rod. Guess who shows up? He remembers me. Needless to say no problem with paper work.
"Pontiac Slim"

[Muttley]

Well I stop to help people everyday, I drive a tow truck. Eventhough it's my job and I'm getting paid it would be nice if some of these people would show some appreciation once in a while. You can allways tell a car guy though, they always say thank you and I never get called for some lame ass reason (like changing a tire) for a car guy.

[Machinos]

The only time I've ever passed another old car broken down was when MINE was broken down 3 miles up the freeway, heh heh... the other guy was lucky enough to break down 4 blocks from the NAPA I was going to. Pfft.

[superbell]

Some storys are good others are not... I was driving on I-5 south one warm summer in the late afternoon dragging my car trailer home from a hauling job. I was in the center lane arm out the window enjoying the summer heat when I hear a noise, I look in the rear view mirror and see that the ramp that a friend had forgot to latch in was slidding down the middle lane of the freeway in a shower of sparks..SHIT! So I try to get over to the side of the road and by the time I do I'm about 4 blocks away down the road, I could care less about the ramp but I'm freaking out that some poor bastard in a motorcycle is gonna find the ramp before I can get it out of the center lane. So I start to semi jog down the side of the freeway to get the damn thing and I get about halfway down there and all of a sudden I find myself waking up on the shoulder of the road, how long I layed there I have no idea. First its where am I? Then its "the ramp!!!" I get up and start for the ramp again and make it about 40 more feet and I'm waking up again, this time I take a few minutes to regain my composure then I slowly walked down to the ramp and slowly walked out to the center lane and retrieved the damned thing. After I got the ramp out of the freeway I felt much better and I was glad no body got hurt. Now I knew better to try to hurry to fast to get the ramp as I have a heart condition that tells me to slow down in just that way, its not that I had a heart attack but when I exert myself like that my heart can't pump enough blood to keep the computer going so I black out. My point of all this blabber is I layed on the side of the freeway twice for god knows how long unconcious and do you think anybody would stop? No! Well at least one motorist must have called the state patrol because one showed up shortly after I started back to the truck with the ramp and He gave me a ride back, thanks Mr. policeman. I'm sorry but If I was driving down the road and saw anyone laying on the side of the road I would stop each and every time.