Is the age of chivalry dead??

[suburbanreuben]

I'm on the next ferry!
I've been learning Danish from the telly!

 

[lumos2000]

do they not make stans for cars yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlZvOVG ... r_embedded

 

[petitpal]

Once stopped to help a lady with a puncture who had a tin of something similar. Wondered if it would help to seal a 6" hole down the side of her tyre where she'd kerbed it. Methinks not..... :shock:

 

[Alison]

6am this morning a puncture, so I had to change the wheel. A poor helpless woman stuck by the side of the road and nobody stopped to lend a hand, as I battled with wheel spanners and jacks when all I wanted was to sit in the car while some handsome devil did it for me.

I would have called the RAC but I thought that would probably take longer than the 43 mins, small jack took ages to jack up, it took me to do the job myself. Good job I was not dressed in a short skirt and tights.

Alison

Actually - re-reading this.... if you battled with spanners, jacked the car up and changed the wheel you can't be that helpless... in fact it reads more like a bit lazy to me! ("Want to sit in the car while someone did it for me")

I can believe the 'poor' bit though as you are envolved with this site

Yeah you got me just lazy, kneeling on a cold wet road early in the morning jacking up a volvo, yup I'd have happily handed everything over to a willing volunteer I'm just glad it was not the main A64 road but a town street.

 

[orange71]

so it didn't actually have to be a handsome devil - it could have been a comely lass, as long as the job was done

 

[Alison]

so it didn't actually have to be a handsome devil - it could have been a comely lass, as long as the job was done

Yep any old codger could have done it. TBH I have always felt that I should make the effort to be able to change my own wheel, I hate been thought of as dependant, just a touch of lazyness there though

Alison

 

[Neil]

6am this morning a puncture, so I had to change the wheel. A poor helpless woman stuck by the side of the road and nobody stopped to lend a hand, as I battled with wheel spanners and jacks when all I wanted was to sit in the car while some handsome devil did it for me.

I would have called the RAC but I thought that would probably take longer than the 43 mins, small jack took ages to jack up, it took me to do the job myself. Good job I was not dressed in a short skirt and tights.

Alison

Have to say, I agree, it doesn't feel right.

And thinking of my wife being stuck by the side of the road, I'd hope somebody would stop and help - and that person not being a stalking psychopath.

For myself, I have offered to help with things like this, at times. But I have to say, going into that mix, these days, I've got concerns, like - will I be thought of as a stalking psychopath by stopping and offering to help, but perhaps of most significance, these days, most of the time I'm in a huge rush having to collect / look after kids, wife, cat, cuddly toy - and in potentially stopping and being delayed helping a stranger, as a consequence, I'm letting down kids / wife / boa constrictor (in the style of Basil Fawlty "My little piranha fish...").

 

[FMJ]

maybe one day would live up to her Colin-Firth-related fantasies.

As long as her favourite movie isn't A Single Man............

And btw, to the OP: changing wheels can be made much easier using the appropriate tools - carry a trolley jack and a breaker bar and it takes waaaaaaaaaaaay less than 45mins - those stupid fiddly things they chuck in the emergency kit are useless for most people.

10 minutes, tops. And that's with hubcentric rims + bolt wheels and the stock jack/wrench that's in the trunk. I've done it in just over 5 on the side of the expressway. Could probably shave another 30-40 seconds off that with a metric X wrench instead of the stocker.

 

[1duck]

Should have called out the breakdown service seen as how you've paid for it.


I'll stop to help people but i've noticed on the continent a woman is more likely to ask for help, which i feel a lot happier with...if someone waved me down then fair enough.


In britain women do seem to get all uppity if you offer to help them, i offered to help a lass with her suitcase at the train station she looked at me like i just ate her kitten, told me no... Then she noticed the lift was out and took me up on my offer. I should have abandoned her after her initial rebuke but i'm too much of a soft touch.

 

[RobMac]

A woman knocked me off my motorbike, as she hit me and the bike she punchered one of her tyre, she stepped out of the car nearly in tears and couldn't stop apologising. She was utterly gorgeous :shock: and like a idiot I changed her wheel for her with one hand bleeding like a sheep once we exchanged details, my bike was unrideable but get this she was using the car while it was on recall for a brakes fault AND I lost the court case and she claimed against me "WTF" :x