But one of those dudes had a profound affect on me. None of them spoke a lick of the language. It was enough, each time, to make you say shit like ‘this country is going to hell in a handbasket.’īut you know who came to my rescue all three times? Immigrants. The 4 gas stations I asked for a gas can at told me that they couldn’t loan them out ‘for my safety’ but I could buy a really shitty 1-gallon one with no cap for $15. I spent hours on the side of the freeway waiting, watching roadside assistance vehicles blow past me, for AAA to show. It makes it worse on a practical level as well, what with the fact that I carry things like a jack and extra fuses in my car, and know enough not to park, facing downhill, on a steep incline with less than a gallon of fuel.Īnyway, each of these times this shit happened I was DISGUSTED with how people would not bother to help me. All of them were while driving other people’s cars which, for some reason, makes it worse on an emotional level. A blow out on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out of gas situation. This past year I have had 3 instances of car trouble. If you would indulge me, it is long story and has almost nothing to do with hitch hiking other than happening on a road. Then some shit happened to me that changed me and I am back to offering rides habitually.

I kind of got out of the habit in the last couple of years, moved to a big city and all that, my girlfriend wasn’t too stoked on the practice. “Just about every time I see someone I stop. Then, the father left u/rhoner with these parting words: “Today you, tomorrow me,” inspiring u/rhoner and the many Reddit users who have read, awarded, and shared this story in the past decade to stop on the road to help others and, more importantly, be kind to strangers: Instead of taking his money as thanks, they shared their lunch. In response to an r/AskReddit post, Have you ever picked up a hitch-hiker?, u/rhoner shared the story of a family from Mexico that stopped to help him when his car broke down on the side of the freeway. December 13 marks the 10-year anniversary of one of Reddit’s most classic comments: u/rhoner’s “ Today You, Tomorrow Me.”

It started with a question in r/AskReddit and ended with a powerful four-word phrase.

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