Hoy me ha ocurrido una cosa de esas que te hace recuperar la fe en tus semejantes. Resulta que me dio por salir de Barcelona a esa hora en la que todo el mundo sale y el tráfico es intenso, intenso. Al inicio de la autovía de 4 carriles, sin arcén suficiente para pararse, y en un tramo de subida, me quedé sin gasoil. Creo que la última vez que me pasó esto debió ser hace 30 años. Mientras cumplía con el ritual y paraba todo el tráfico, me ponía la hermilla y iba a colocar el triángulo reflectante en el suelo, al lado se paró una furgoneta....(parando todavía más el tráfico), obligando a los que se desviaban para pasarme desviarse todavía más a pasar a la furgoneta. El conductor, un chico jóven me preguntó qué me pasaba. Con voz bajita le comenté que creía haberme quedado sin gasoil. El conductor llevó la furgoneta delante de mi coche donde la estacionó y sacó una pequeña garrafa con un litro de gasoil. Me la dió, vertí el gasoil en el depósito, le devolví las gracias y arrancamos cada uno por su camino, él a su destino y yo hacia la gasolinera más cercana (el día que mejor partida le he sacado al GPS). Aún no salgo de mi asombro. El que haya hecho muchas horas de conducción lo entenderá enseguida...y el que no, se lo puede imaginar. Viva la buena gente...que todavía quedan algunos!
Something happened to me today that makes me recover faith in my fellow human beings. I decided to leave Barcelona at the worst traffic hour, specially tonight, Christmas eve. ONce on the 4 lane with hardly any space for a car to stop on the roadside, as I was going uphill the car ran out of fuel. I think it must have been 30 years or so since the last this had happened to me. I steered as far as I could to allow some space for the cars behind to detour and advance me. As I was carrying along with the protocol of putting on the reflective jacket, a triangle on the road and not trying to look at all the traffic I was stopping, a van stopped next to me (stopping even more cars) and asked what was the trouble. In a low voice, I said I think I'm out of gas. He pulled up the van in front of my car and took a small jerry can with only 1 litre of diesel and handed it to me. I couldn't believe this was happening while I carefully transfered the diesel to my tank. After returning the jerry can and thanking him he quickly left on his destination and I took off for the nearest petrol station (never found a GPS more usefull than on this ocassion). I am still awe struck. Those of you who have lived a lot of car mileage will inmediately undestand why...and those that haven't can imagine why. Long live the good people...there still are some left!
Great story- random acts of kindness make me smile :)
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