Today you, tomorrow me

[Pea-n-Me]

Has anyone else followed this? Apparently it started years ago on a Reddit forum.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/_/c18z0z2

I love the many stories below it, too. ❤

Someone even made a short film about it:

Do you have any similar stories of your own to share?

ETA I made the short film a link because this is about more than helping people on the side of the road or picking up hitchhikers (which I’m not sure I’d always do myself).

It’s more about the concept that people help other people because - ‘today it’s them, but tomorrow, it could be me”. (Which, according to many of these stories, is a common saying in Mexico.) So I guess, for me, about the concept of Paying It Forward.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Trying this one more time (on a day that’s not the Super Bowl). I love this story!

 

[bjscheel]

Glanced at some of it. DH will stop and help someone if it looks necessary, I don't by myself if it looks like they have a phone/are handling it.

One night on our rather remote country road, we heard a car come up the hill slow and then stop. DH went outside to "call the cat". The people hollered back they had a flat tire. So he had them pull it into the shop, fixed it with the tire machine and got them going at 1 am. They were drunk and trying to take the back roads home. DH was a little nervous because they were admiring his stuff in the shop and hoped they didn't try coming back when we weren't home. It turned out though that one of them was a dad of DD23's college friend (they grew up nearby but didn't meet until college).

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

We always stop and help if we can, if it's safe for us to do so.
There are times when we will call emergency or state patrol for help, instead of stopping (like if we're on I-295 on the Buckman; stopping on there is flat out unsafe, even when it's slow!).

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I edited the OP. It might’ve been confusing the way it was.

As I added above, this story is more about Paying It Forward!

 

[ronandannette]

Glanced at some of it. DH will stop and help someone if it looks necessary, I don't by myself if it looks like they have a phone/are handling it.

One night on our rather remote country road, we heard a car come up the hill slow and then stop. DH went outside to "call the cat". The people hollered back they had a flat tire. So he had them pull it into the shop, fixed it with the tire machine and got them going at 1 am. They were drunk and trying to take the back roads home. DH was a little nervous because they were admiring his stuff in the shop and hoped they didn't try coming back when we weren't home. It turned out though that one of them was a dad of DD23's college friend (they grew up nearby but didn't meet until college).

Driving drunk? You're more chill than I am. I would have been happy to help with the tire but would have called law enforcement if they tried to drive away.