Many caring people out there

Editor:

I was driving through Mulmur on my way to Collingwood on Thursday night, anxiously looking for a gas station because I had waited far too long to fill up, since noticing back in Brampton that I was getting low. I stopped at the corner store at the intersection of Highway 17 and Airport Road to ask where the nearest gas station was. My fuel gauge was right on empty. Gulp.

A man coming out from the store was approaching his white truck in the parking lot and I asked him where the nearest gas station was. He thought for a while and then said there was one just a few minutes west of there. He said, “Follow me, I’ll lead you there!”

Thank goodness he did, because in the dark and blowing snow, I could not have imagined that there was a gas station within just a few kilometres.

When we arrived, he got out of his truck to check on me before driving on to his destination. If I hadn’t been so rattled I would have thought to ask for his name or an e-mail address or something so that I could thank him properly.

I am hoping that this story might find its way into your “letters to the editor” so that I can let him know how grateful I am to him for his kindness. There are so many caring, thoughtful people out there and it is always great to run in to one of them when you’re in a jam.

Leah Leslie,

Rosseau.