True story..... (Good thread btw)
I was travelling up to gold coast from Sydney, just before the Newcastle big servo I get a flat tyre.. I make it to the servo. It was about midnight.
I'm about to change the tyre and a combi van pulls in right next to me, 5 guys get out of the van. They see I'm changing the tyre and they tell me to relax, sit down . They work together to change my tyre.. just chatting they said they were from a suburb in Melbourne where I remember on the news there was a recent missing person. I offered to buy them all a drink, they said all good, they get in their combi and drive off.
I walk I to the servo and stop for a coffee and stretch my legs.. about 30 mins later I walk back to my car and drove off.. I'm driving in the dark and about an hour past Newcastle, (close to 2am) I see the combi pulled over on the side of the road, Hazzard lights on, they were standing on the side of road waving me in...
I was thinking I'm in the middle of nowhere, pitch black, I'm not stopping there with 5 blokes I don't know.. it's different than a well lit up servo. So I drove around them waved googbye and sped off up the road.. they were in middle of road screaming for me to come back..
Sure some of you mob might think it's incredibly ungrateful not to stop for the 10% chance they needed help considering they just helped me out but it seemed like a setup, why would they change my tyre at midnight, what was I going to do in the dark in middle of nowhere, I'm no mechanic. Plus they were from a suburb in melbourne where there was a recent missing person on the news.
I enjoyed my holiday by the way