u/hashtagmiata

I drove my red Honda Ruckus scooter to Kits Beach to do some metal detecting this afternoon. I parked street side on Cornwall at the beginning of the 2 hour spots near the pool.

While I was at the beach, someone who was parked just ahead of my scooter backed into it, knocking it over and left it there, driving off without leaving a note. Walking back to my scooter I could see from a distance it had been knocked over. I was quite disappointed.

While I approached my bike a guy with a really big truck pulled up behind it, turned on emergency lights which he had mounted to his roof and got out. Hr picked up my bike and was going to get back into his truck as I ran up, thinking he might be a city worker who was there to remove my bike. Turned out he wasn’t, but said when he saw my bike knocked over on the street he felt bad seeing it that way and decided to stand it back up. It was such a kind gesture and I thanked him for it.

As I was getting my bag packed to go, a local senior from the neighborhood walked over and asked if the bike was OK. He hadn’t seen it get knocked down but said he and his wife sit on folding chairs on the grass nearby on nice afternoons, and they happened to walk by it when they saw it already on the ground, and felt bad for the owner. He too offered me kind words of support which I really appreciated.

The bike is ok, apart from having a damaged grip on one side, and a scratch on the muffler. If someone happened to witness this incident earlier today and caught the plate of the driver who did it, please let me know. But mainly I am sharing this story to express my gratitude for the kindness of strangers today.