They will often stop behind you with the lights on to protect you from traffic while you work, and check that you have situation under control. I’ve had that happen three times I think…once when I was just putting snow chains on. I think thier departments discourage them from actually helping with the dirty work though…certainly none ever offered.
If someone hits you or the car, it makes a bunch of paperwork for them. Public safety is thier mission as much as law enforcement.
It is low priority though, so if they are on the way to another call or some such, they won’t stop, but instead might put the word out on the radio in case there is a cop who is NOT busy who can help.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. Once was on the interstate in Missouri, where as Kevbo says I would at least expect them to pull up behind with their lights on to warn approaching traffic. The other time was on a college campus, I was working late in the computer lab and came out sometime after midnight and discovered I had a flat. A campus police car drove right past me while I was changing the flat. Maybe that’s not so unusual.
Black men are, statistically, more likely to commit violent crimes.
So no, I’d never stop for one.
The above is not in fact true. :rolleyes:
Mika, if you’ve got a wrench that’s not just going to slip off (see earlier reference to crappy Vauxhall standard equipment), carry a length of iron pipe around with you - something you can slip over the end of the wrench handle as an extension. Twice the leverage means twice the force on the nut. Also a can of WD-40 or Plus-Gas or similar to spray on the nuts before you start, and give it a few minutes to work its way down the threads.
I’ve been sick, that’s why I didn’t get to it earlier.
I have no ‘male pride’ whatsoever. So it isn’t an issue for me. If I need help with something, I will accept that help from the first capable person to offer. Honestly, before reading this thread I didn’t realize how much sexism still existed.
I am a girl, but I have had men accept my offer to help, though it was usually “yeh, lemme call my buddy to come help me” or “yeh, a ride to the house to get my tools would be great.” Not all men are so insecure as to shrug off an offer of help even if it does come from a girl.
Hell yes I’d let her help. (Even if I was OK on my own). That’s a considerate and generous offer. I’m not going to be a jerk about it, but it’s a momentary opportunity to be in the presence of the kind of way cool female who would stop to help a guy, who is confident of her ability to offer something useful towards dealing with my predicament (whether it’s a call to AAA or she comes out weilding Snap-Ons with cheater bars) as well as confident of her ability to deal with the situation itself, as need be. Hell yeah. Not gonna be a jerka about it, but thank you and (how you doin’?)
