| Chain
The other day, I went into this resturaunt that I always go to because everyone there knows me, and they're all very friendly. I sat in there for a few hours, just talking to everyone and having a good old time. When I left, I got in my car, and noticed that there was this chain sitting on the hood.
I got out and looked at it closely, and it looked like someone had drove by and slung a chain on my hood! It was scratched to hell, and I was pissed!
So I drove home, which was only a couple of blocks, and as I turned the corner to pull into my apartments, I saw this giant box in the middle of the road. Next to it was this little truck, and some older lady crying her eyes out.
I parked in my apartments and walked back out to see if I could help. The lady explained that she had saved up for a long time to buy her son a big screen TV beccause it's what he always wanted, and neither of them had a lot of money, so it had never been possible. He had just graduated high school, and was in the process of moving into his own place, and that was going to be her gift to him. "THREE YEARS!" she said she had been saving up.
My heart went out to her, it really did, and I asked, "Well, what happened?"
"Well I left Best Buy, and was driving, and I guess the chain..."
Wait a minute! A CHAIN!?
"... and I turned this corner here, and the thing just flew out of the back!" She started crying again.
I couldn't be mad at her, no matter how hard I tried, so I offered to help. I told her that I was okay with electronic stuff, and that I'd take a look at it for her to see if it still worked.
By then a cop had showed up, and I talked him into helping me load it back into her truck. I ran to my apartment and got some rope and tied it down so good, we had to cut it apart when we got to her house. She had a little ramp we used to get it down from the truck, and we put it inside.
Now the box was mangled beyond belief, it really did look like it had been thrown out of the back of a truck. Surprisingly, the TV looked in okay shape, but when we went to turn it on, nothing happened.
I tell her to get me a screw driver, and I pop the back off. I'm no TV technician, but I saw this cable that was dangling next to a socket where it looked like it belonged. I pluged it in, and asked her to give it a try... it worked.
She offered to pay me, and NORMALLY I'd have said no, after all, I get this really high feeling when I do something good for someone. HOWEVER, since my hood was all scratched, I took the two hundreds she handed me.
When she pulled up next to my car to drop me off, I asked her to wait a second. I got the chain out from my car and handed it to her and said, "Use lots of rope next time."
She almost freaked out, and offered more money, but I said, "No ma'am! It's okay! What you gave me will cover me getting my hood repainted. It's alright, I promise!"
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