You did (or tried to do) a good thing. many bicycles around here don't get locked up. twice I have found bicycles sitting in my side yard. when I notice them i put them somewhere secure. in both cases we eventually found the owner; in both cases it was irresponsible owners who set the bike down to go play; and didn't come back for days. in one case the kid grabbed his sisters bike; and did not want to fess up when his mom called the police to report it as stolen.
this thread is an interesting case study: around here it is unusual to find someone who cares and tried to help. up by my moms people will bend over backwards to help. once time we just stopped on the side of the road to pick raspberries; three different people stopped to see if we had car trouble. last Labor day we were towing mom's boat to winter storage when the engine in my brothers truck threw a rod. of course this was 11pm on a holiday Sunday night. after spending an hour on the phone with AAA.... there was no sign of getting towing that night. time to abandon. anyway, 15 minutes into our fiasco, someone stopped by to see if they could help. nope. blown engine. they then asked if they could deliver our boat for us instead of leaving it on the side of the road or trying to get a tow truck to take it. uh... ok. he delivered the boat to storage 1 mile down the road. he also offered to take us back 35 miles to mom's house. not needed; we had help on the way.
anyway; just huge cultural differences.
this thread is an interesting case study: around here it is unusual to find someone who cares and tried to help. up by my moms people will bend over backwards to help. once time we just stopped on the side of the road to pick raspberries; three different people stopped to see if we had car trouble. last Labor day we were towing mom's boat to winter storage when the engine in my brothers truck threw a rod. of course this was 11pm on a holiday Sunday night. after spending an hour on the phone with AAA.... there was no sign of getting towing that night. time to abandon. anyway, 15 minutes into our fiasco, someone stopped by to see if they could help. nope. blown engine. they then asked if they could deliver our boat for us instead of leaving it on the side of the road or trying to get a tow truck to take it. uh... ok. he delivered the boat to storage 1 mile down the road. he also offered to take us back 35 miles to mom's house. not needed; we had help on the way.
anyway; just huge cultural differences.
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