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Good Samaritans
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Posted on Mar 19 2009
This is a thank you letter to the two gentlemen who stopped on Wednesday evening to help me after I hit a slick spot and “went down” on my motorcycle.
Fortunately, I was on the grass shoulder when I went down and so wasn’t seriously injured. I was on Isa Drive around Papago at the time and doing around 35 mph.
I was down on the shoulder of the road, with the wind knocked out of me when the first person stopped to ask after my condition.
I was in so much pain, my life started to flash in front of my eyes, exactly as they say it does when you start to die, but then quickly switched to James Bond’s life since mine has been way too boring to replay.
I started seeing the “white light,” but it turned out to be the headlights of another guy that stopped and the two of them got my bike back up on the sidestand for me.
By now I was up and about, complete with bruised ego and muscles but thanks to the grass I was largely unhurt and they reluctantly left me, without any exchange of names.
Even then another car stopped and asked if I needed help.
Thanks to all of these people who rendered assistance and shall be known only to God.
Under the cover of darkness I quietly rode off and made it to the Taga Riders’ meeting.
And so, after nearly 40 years of motorcycle riding I went down for the first time, and was very pleased to be offered so much assistance from total strangers.
It always says good things about any society that produces people willing to help a stranger in trouble. I believe that’s called the story of the Good Samaritan.
Saipan is truly a wonderful place to live with outstanding people, and hardly ever a motorcycle mishap.
[B]Ed Tudor, DVM[/B] [I]Sadog Tasi, Saipan[/I]
