Story time, Veeky Forums.
>Be me
>Work at gas station
>Kinda cute woman with 3 kids shows up in a beat up 2001 ford focus
>From out of state
>Wants to know if we do western union
>We dont, i tell her where she can go to get it done
>They back out of parking lot
>One of the rear tires goes flat
>She limps off to the side of the lot
>I offer to help her out
>She doesnt have a spare, it was her husbands spare beater
>She was driving from NC to ohio to visit her family, her grandpa just died
>Go grab a jack and a tire iron out of my shitbox
>Jack it up and pull the tire off to see whats up
>See Pic related
>COMPLETELY BALD WITH WIRE SHOWING
>Tell her its fucked, she needs to go to a tire shop
>All of the ones nearby are closed
>No hotels within 10 miles
>Shes pretty much boned
>She sits on the curb defeated with her kids making a fuss
>Tell them to sit the fuck down and be quiet
>Ask how it got that bad
>Apparent her fucking husband used that poor little car to haul fucking furniture regularly
>He told her it would be okay to drive multiple states over to go see her family in this deathtrap
>Tell her to kick his ass when she gets back
>She makes some phonecalls and a few minutes pass
>Some of the local rednecks come by and notice
>I show him the molested tire
>He says he knows someone who might have an old spare 15 inch tire she can use to limp to a hotel then get it replaced tomorrow, its a bit bigger but it will work
>He lives a block away, head over there with the tire
>It turns out to be another regular that comes in, an older gearhead
>Its an old slightly dry rotted tire he had from his rat rod camaro
>We have to remove the raped tire and mount the camaro one
>End up taking a sawzall to the bastard and cutting the bead
>Mount the new one
>Local cop shows up and drives us back
>Mount it and tell her to get a new tire ASAP, fuck her husband
>She drives off after a few thank yous
>Me and the old dude shoot shit and part ways
Did i do a good thing today? I'm conflicted.
