Lovely story Alameda... (although the end sounded like an AAA ad )

Hmmm....guess some could read it that way, but if you need it, it saves a lot of dollars. Almost everyone around here has it.

Get locked out of y our car, need a tow, need a battery charge or run out of gas, need a you to fix a tire and you can call them and your yearly dues entitle you to free service.  I have called a couple of times this year and it more than paid for itself. You can also get free maps or travel routes planned.

If you drive and are in an area where they have good service, it´s a good investment IMHO.

Back to stories of human kindness...

When I was in Turkey, few years back, I needed to travel to another city from Istanbul. I went to a place where you buy tickets and managed to communicate with the person where I wanted to go and when, but could not understand where I was supposed to go with that ticket! There was no bus stations with clear numbers of terminals or anything of that sort... there was apparently some logic to how that system worked, but it was certainly not intuitive! After some time of struggle to communicate, some person who was also in this particular office gestured that he would show me how to find my way! He took a bus with me that would take us to the main bus station. When we got there, it turned out that I missed my connection and I would have to buy another ticket! The helpful man somehow convinced them to give me another ticket and then waited with me for about 2 hours till I got on the right bus! Never mind that he was trying to convince me to visit him and to give him my phone number..

Well he could have been sincere in his concern for you.

In New York City this happened many times to me. During the winter after it snows they plough the streets and the snow piles up in the gutters. It gets very yucky...in fact really disgusting. At times I´ve seen piles on the side of the sidewalk as high as 2 meters or more.  At the intersections it gets tramped down, some melts and turns into ice. Water/ice forms on the top and it can get deep. On numerous ocassions some gentleman has helped me accross by carrying me over it all.

New Yorkers can be very nice that way, fighting for a taxi during rush hour is another thing.

I am pretty sure he had some sexual interests in mind, but even despite my refusal, he seemed not to mind helping. He really saved me there.

These guys are embarresing for all of us catwoman..

They are losers..

They are lowering the image of Turkish men ´by investing hours and hours of hard work and then failing´!! and showing us as if we are pathetic losers.

The success rate of ´a Turkish man shows an interest and gets the telephone number of a foreign girl´ is more than 61% apperantly. 

And the guys like you mentioned above are lowering that rate

If it was me I could have returned back with your mobile number, your work number, your several addresses, your msn and your heart etc in less than 10 mins..

 TheH you really should try to work on these low self-esteem issues of yours!

Canim, that´s why this guy makes it to "stories of human kindness", not "the most successful Turkish dudu"!

Well

He could have killed two birds with one stone..

That is what I would do