Zaskar09 Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 I'm generally an even-tempered sort of guy but today I nearly lost it. Was on my way back from varsity (in the car) when about 4 or 5 cars ahead of me a guy takes a tumble quite hard in the middle of the road. He gets up and I can see his all bloody and woozie and stumbles towards his bike to get it out of the road. Just as he reaches it, the robot turns green and people start driving around him, hooting and shouting. From 4 - 5 cars away I could see this guy isn't doing so well so when all the cars in front of me passed I pull over and help him get his bike and gear, littered over the road, out of the way. On closer inspection I see that he's actually quite old (to a 24 year old), I would say late 50's maybe 60's and he's REALLY not doing so well. So I take him to the side of the road, have him take a seat and fetch him some water from my car all the while he's mumbling something incoherent, knees and hands shaking. I asked him if I could give him a lift home but he said he lived 2 blocks away so I told him I'll drive after him just to make sure he gets there ok. Halfway there, he stops saying that he's too dizzy to keep riding, so we load his bike in the car and I take him home. Still, in the car he's mumbling all the time so I'm thinking serious concussion. When we reached his house his wife told me that he used to be a physics prof at the university untill about 6 years ago when he lost 50% of his brain function in a car accident. Now he works at a nearby library, putting away the returned books. What really bothered me is that nobody even stopped, they could see that he's kinda old and that something is seriously wrong but everybody just hooted and shouted. That pissed me off. Just needed to get that off my chest.
Caerus Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Good work for helping out:) , lets hope the other people die horrible deaths and no ones comes to help them.
Thermophage Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 wow dude that is seriously f***ed up man Really sad...both the stories in your post tbh Gratz on helping though! Move to the coast...we are friendlier
twotumble Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Good on you Zaskar9 for stopping to help the guy, we need tons more people like you out there, and who knows, maybe we could one day get some sort of normality back on our roads. WELL DONE
Zaskar09 Posted October 7, 2010 Author Posted October 7, 2010 wow dude that is seriously f***ed up man Really sad...both the stories in your post tbh Move to the coast...we are friendlier It sort of rattled me, here's this guy, a genius the one moment (you have to be smart to be physics prof, I think) and now he's filing books in the library (not that there's anything wrong with filing books in a library, someone has to do it). Gone, just like that. Made me wonder what we take for granted everyday. The whole scenario just makes the people not stopping that much worse, of course, they don't know that.
Thermophage Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 It sort of rattled me, here's this guy, a genius the one moment (you have to be smart to be physics prof, I think) and now he's filing books in the library (not that there's anything wrong with filing books in a library, someone has to do it). Gone, just like that. Made me wonder what we take for granted everyday. The whole scenario just makes the people not stopping that much worse, of course, they don't know that. Yeah man, we really do take a lot for granted.Yeah, some o my physics profs were way out there in the braniac department back at varisty It was just dodge that the one expected all of us in 3'rd yr to be on his level too! hehehePhysicists are another breed man...awesome people to talk to about anything because they have such a want to understand everything around them
Capricorn Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 good on you, and please dont lose your empathy for human suffering just cos the masses are successful at being heartless morons.
urbanroyal Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Nice one...glad you were there to help him out
Zaskar09 Posted October 7, 2010 Author Posted October 7, 2010 good on you, and please dont lose your empathy for human suffering just cos the masses are successful at being heartless morons. South Africa being what it is I can understand people not stopping when someone is just lying in the road or something. But all these people saw it happen, they saw he was oldish (I'm scared to say he's OLD, might get jumped on ) and they saw he was hurt. I can't wrap my head around people actually hooting and shouting. If you don't wanna stop, don't stop but don't be a pr!ck.
nathrix Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Having respect for others is difficult if you have no respect for yourself.Good you were there to help.
dirtrider Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Don't ponder it , you did the right thing . AND yes stop telling us how old he was !!~!~!
Zaskar09 Posted October 7, 2010 Author Posted October 7, 2010 Don't ponder it , you did the right thing . AND yes stop telling us how old he was !!~!~! lol
Christopher Brunsdon Posted October 7, 2010 Posted October 7, 2010 Well done. Respect for others is rare but always welcome and don't worry about what others did not do as you made a difference today in a strangers life.
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