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12696388, has a stranger ever bailed you out?
Posted by Deadzombie, Mon Jan-12-15 03:41 PM
or

have you ever encountered a 'guardian angel'?

has a person ever appeared and then saved you from some sort of peril?

it's an awesome feeling.

i've encountered one while trying to 'save' a woman from her drunk boyfriend/escort. they were at the bottom of an escalator platform when i righteously approached.

the drunk dude got aggressive with me, then a african nigga swooped in.

i'll never forget that nigga saying to the drunk boyfriend 'you touch him, you die' ... talking about me.

i liked that shit.

that coulda been like what would-you-do episode, and i'd have had my own little segment or some shit.

im sure there are a host of other times strangers have bailed me out but that one stands out.
12696407, New Years Eve 1997...i was young dumb and full of rum
Posted by ambient1, Mon Jan-12-15 04:05 PM
and e&j and 211


basically i was furred out my mind by the time we got to a NY eve party

was at the party when i started becoming REALLLLLLLLLY drunk me...talkin...and talkin...and talkin and talkin..and everybody tellin me to shut up lol..

after the talkin comes the after party...

i just remember a toilet bowl being my pillow

and a dude...who i to this day don't know...
came in...and said 'C'mon Black Man....not like this...u can't go out like this'
helped me to my feet...and walked me out to my 'friends'

i proceeded to curse my friends out and tell em that dude is my real friend ...and my hero

erybody found that funny

i kept thankin dude for wakin me up and helpin me

then i proceeded to drive my friends home tellin em about themselves the whole way...furred out my mind yet still the driver
12696411, If they let you drive...
Posted by bnicedh, Mon Jan-12-15 04:08 PM
They weren't your friends...

Wait, how they go from leaving you on a toilet to allowing you drive them home!?!? SMH...
12696415, they must not have loved themselves if they let me drive em home
Posted by ambient1, Mon Jan-12-15 04:11 PM
lol

erybody was too drunk

plus i was the best drunk driver


i'm actually serious...i was the best drunk driver out the crew

12696418, re: plus i was the best drunk driver
Posted by BigJazz, Mon Jan-12-15 04:14 PM
i'm almost ashamed to admit i've felt this way and carried it this way too many times to count...




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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...
12696424, yeah man...to be young and fearless........aka dumb lol
Posted by ambient1, Mon Jan-12-15 04:21 PM
12696427, ditto
Posted by T Reynolds, Mon Jan-12-15 04:22 PM
12696499, sigh....I drove drunk from Prairieview to Houston one night.
Posted by MistaGoodBar, Mon Jan-12-15 05:52 PM
It was either that or fall out on some lawn on campus.
12696901, same here...after a while i just assumed i was lucky as shit
Posted by gumz, Tue Jan-13-15 10:54 AM
and decided not to keep trying my luck
12696412, nice. would read again.
Posted by Deadzombie, Mon Jan-12-15 04:08 PM
12696432, Ransom White dude changed my flat tier.
Posted by Case_One, Mon Jan-12-15 04:27 PM
T'was 1995, and I was heading back to base at Ft. Gordon one night when my right front tire EXPLODED. I thought it was THE END.

I pulled over so that I could change the tier and the road was pitch black. So, I was out in the night trying to change the tier and all of a sudden a pick-up truck rolled up on me with the light beaming. A White dude got out and asked if I was Ok.

I told him what happened and I guess that he could tell that i was still shook about the explosion.

I was still trying to get the lugs off when he came over and offered a hand. He talked about how crazy it was that no one stopped to help me in the dark.

Next thing I know, dude had taken all of the lugs off and put the spare on, shook my hand, told me to be safe and dipped.

I was grateful and I've never looked at random White Help ever the same,



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"America, stop turning our Court Houses of Justice into Dens for Justified Murderers."
12696461, It's not really a "bail out" but strangers looked out twice at the same spot
Posted by Marbles, Mon Jan-12-15 04:57 PM


End of 2012, me, my girl & another couple are going to the New Edition show. As we’re walking into the arena, there’s a white cat ahead of us with his girl. He turns round and counts our group…4 people. We look at him kinda weird.

He says that 6 of his friends bailed on the show, so he has 6 extra tickets. He asks where our seats are. We’re sitting on the bottom deck. The dude gives us 4 floor tickets.

We get inside and run into him again. We buy him & his girl a drink for the tickets. As we’re rapping, it turns out he went to law school with my GF back in Cleveland. Small world.

Fast forward…last month, I took my girl to see Usher at the same arena This time, we’re on the floor, near the back. Good solid seats. About halfway through the show, this white cat is walking by us with a kid who’s about 8 or 9. The guy is looking into our section like he’s trying to pick people out. We’re right on the aisle, so he approaches us.

Dude says he has to take his kid home and he’s got great seats towards the front. He points us to an usher (no pun intended) and says to ask her where the seats are. We thank him & stroll over to that usher. She knows what’s up & scowls at us but she leads us to our seats.

Second row. This dude dropped second row seats on us for absolutely nothing.

We’ve decided that when another good show comes thru, we’ll just hang out around the arena and see if our luck holds up.
12696474, yup. In Phoenix two years ago
Posted by Amritsar, Mon Jan-12-15 05:10 PM
My flight was delayed for several hours. So i take a cab out to the movie theatre

I have all my luggage on me.


Cab driver drops me off. I pay the driver and get my stuff out the trunk, but my phone was in the backseat. I tried running after the cab when I realized. He was long gone.

So I'm standing outside the movie theatre crazy stressed. Didnt know anybody in Phx. This nice old lady sees this and hands me her phone so I could call the taxi company.

Later when I got my phonr back I texted her to say thx
12696480, Frankie Knuckles in the early 90's
Posted by imcvspl, Mon Jan-12-15 05:27 PM
Late one night after hitting the club with some folks we go to this diner hungry as shit and start grubbing down. Bill comes, I use my card and it gets declined. No cash. All my peoples broke as shit. Been to the diner before and so start talking to the cat trying to work something out and he's just not having it. Knuckles is sitting at the counter and is just like, don't worry about it and covers my bill.

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
12696490, Wow-- nice guy
Posted by Atillah Moor, Mon Jan-12-15 05:37 PM
12696494, that night a DJ saved your life...
Posted by BigJazz, Mon Jan-12-15 05:43 PM
12696903, Damnit, beat me to it.
Posted by TheAlbionist, Tue Jan-13-15 10:56 AM
Knuckles just became even more of a hero to me.
12696487, No question
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Mon Jan-12-15 05:35 PM
One time in college I got super hammered and really I have no idea why. I had drank a bunch of Southern Comfort 100 (which I hated even before this incident) and gotten pretty ripped before we went out. At some point I found myself in a soccer field, losing shit (lost my glasses, somehow recovered my Phillies fitted).

Some guy rolled up, picked me up and drove me to my house. In my blackout drunk mind, I thought he was a taxi. I suspect what I was certain was a meter was actually his fucking car stereo. I tried to give him double the "fare" (it was 1067 or something, again possibly a radio station) and he wouldn't take any money. He dropped me at my front door, and then I remember throwing up for a while.

On a higher note, I went to visit grad schools where I got accepted and the secretary in the department told me "Hold off on making a decision, we've got a scholarship offer out and the kid sounds wobbly." Sure enough, the other student went another way and I went from just a regular ass admission to having a full ride plus a stipend. This woman never met me before, she just did it off a file and a hunch. These were literally the first words she said to me.
12696488, Twice in Asia
Posted by Atillah Moor, Mon Jan-12-15 05:36 PM
Broke a 10,000 yen bill in a change machine and walked off to play my arcade games-- within seconds a Japanese dude tapped me on the shoulder to point me back to the machine to get the other 9 or so bills still sitting in the change machine. 10k yen is about a hundred US and that arcade was crowded with dudes. Several were just standing around the change machine waiting for me to come get my change so they could break their coins or bills.

In Seoul I got lost trying to find my hotel after already having had a serious misadventure getting to the US embassy (damn cabbie took me to the MBC broadcasting building). Anyway I'm standing out on the sidewalk looking dazed and confused when a total stranger just walks up and asks if I need help. Dude ended up showing me to my hotel and he and his girl were hanging out with me for the three days I was there.
12696603, So it's true that the Japanese don't steal
Posted by after midnight, Mon Jan-12-15 07:56 PM
I saw that in a documentary about Japan years ago. That Japanese kids are taught in school to turn in wallets and other people's property if they find it. Really dope.

>Broke a 10,000 yen bill in a change machine and walked off to
>play my arcade games-- within seconds a Japanese dude tapped
>me on the shoulder to point me back to the machine to get the
>other 9 or so bills still sitting in the change machine. 10k
>yen is about a hundred US and that arcade was crowded with
>dudes. Several were just standing around the change machine
>waiting for me to come get my change so they could break their
>coins or bills.
12696867, lost my wallet on a ski slope there
Posted by lonesome_d, Tue Jan-13-15 10:32 AM
it got mailed back to my office within a week
12696503, my truck ran out of gas on the way to work
Posted by MistaGoodBar, Mon Jan-12-15 05:58 PM
I'm on the service road steering/pushing a huge truck by myself trying to make it to the gas station 2 blocks away to try to figure out my next move. I had no money, bank account was negative, and no one really to call. Roadside assistance said it would take 2 hours to get to me.
As I'm pushing, cars whizzing by....then one stopped. Older white gentlemen stopped, asked if I was okay, assessed the situation, and pulled off. Came back with a brand new gas can full of gas, and shook my hand and told me to have a blessed day.
12696536, During my sinful days....
Posted by Kira, Mon Jan-12-15 06:33 PM
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I'm on the run but have to escape to college. I'm in a Greyhound bus station somewhere in Ohio sweating like a motherfucker as I go through bag checks and what not praying I'll make it to college without getting arrested. Old head sees this and pulls me to the side. Asks what's up. Old head tells me to lay low over the next few days and pretend like I'm okay as we pass through all these states. That was a 80 hour trip. Almost thought they made me in Montana but I pulled a hat over my head and pretended to be asleep.

My time to help came years when later when someone who other people might think committed a crime got into a situation. I assisted him in fleeing this hypothetical criminal situation en route to Mexico via bus.

*EDIT*

I'll leave the alleged intoxicated then driving stories for later.
12696915, it's like that?
Posted by gumz, Tue Jan-13-15 11:05 AM
would ask what you were running for/from but i'm guessing you left it vague for a reason
12696567, Walking from Downtown Philly to the Shipyard in a Storm
Posted by Lardlad95, Mon Jan-12-15 07:11 PM
Dude picked up my dad and me and drove us the rest of the way home. I'm surprised he even saw us in that shit. I think I was like 6.

Another time some random fisherman helped bandage my hand after I cut it on a cluster of oyster shells when my friends and I were playing around this abandoned Fort/boat dock.

Not really guardian angel stuff, but I'm grateful they were there.
12696580, took my youngest downtown (new center area) to get her shots for school
Posted by 2.tears.in.a.bucket, Mon Jan-12-15 07:27 PM
i buy her a juice out the snack bar & we walk outside the building to catch our ride

- WINDY ass day - had to be late march, early april -

she asked me to tie her shoes so i set her apple juice down on top of the 2-3 papers that she needs to start •pre-school•

-- and wouldn't you know the wind blew so hard it knocked over the juice & the papers went flyin across the street!

me being the absent minded nigga i am i dart into the street to chase down the papers, leaving my then 3.5 year old baby on the sidewalk -

she yells out "daddy!" i look back & at that moment i know i'm fucked. i head back to the sidewalk to get my baby & prepare to watch all the paper's blow away to all hell.

fortunately 3 total strangers (all blk folk) on the adjacent corner saw me trying to chase the papers down & they worked together like a tandem to grab each paper for me.

sure i could've found a way to get those papers again. but it was an awesome thing to watch several people work together to help a guy they dont know from jack shit.


12696642, got into an accident
Posted by JellyBean, Mon Jan-12-15 09:24 PM
in the middle of the night on I95 going from Richmond to DC I was somewhere in Fredericksburg....

when I tell you NOOOOOOO ONE was on the road, nobody was up there. Suddenly some random car rode past me, then they made a u-turn in the middle of the highway and pulled up to me and was like are you ok?

I wasn't hurt, but I was shaken up and scared as fuck! he asked me was I riding dirty (which I was) and if I had anything to put my stuff in helped me get myself together...he waited with me until the state police came which was about 30 mins later

I'll never forget that dude...young black guy probably on his way home from wherever...if I could ever find him I would want to give him a hug and just say thank you. I truly believe God sent him to me that day.
12696891, On holiday with a group of hot girls around me....
Posted by TheAlbionist, Tue Jan-13-15 10:49 AM
When I was about 18 my girlfriend at the time and I went away to Spain with a group of her mates... we went to separate schools, so I'd had a trip with my guy friends and she didn't want to go away without me, so I tagged along on theirs on the proviso that I was chauffeur for the duration.

I'd booked a big 7-seater to ferry everyone around in... anyway, we get to the airport and rock up to the car-rental desk only to find out I should've phoned ahead to my bank, because they blocked my card as soon as the transaction tried to go through. Then I get told I have to provide a credit card (only had a debit card) in order to secure the car. We're all standing around wondering a) how the fuck we're going to get out of the airport and b) how the fuck we're going to get ANYWHERE for the rest of the trip. I'm gradually going a deeper shade of crimson as I realise that I've entirely failed 6 beautiful women.

At that point, a dude (late 30s at a guess) skips the queue and offers me HIS card for it all. He let me pay him in cash for the outstanding amount and we exchanged addresses and phone numbers in case I had an accident and ended up costing him more (I didn't, thankfully).

The saddest bit is I lost his details at some point during the trip. That guy deserved the biggest thankyou present in human history... I can only hope his wife gave him the Good Samaritan level goods that night.
12696922, Went to Boston one weekend with 2 friends...
Posted by gumz, Tue Jan-13-15 11:14 AM
to visit another friend of ours a few years back. This was around 2006 or 2007, we went to see the Black Keys play there. Anyway, we spent the whole day drinking, went to Harpoon early in the afternoon, pre-gamed at the house then went to the show. After the show, the one friend who actually lives in Boston wanted to head home with her boyfriend so she asked if we were good to take a cab back to her place. We said we were so they dipped.

So 3 drunken dudes that have no clue where they are just wandering Boston late at night. Most places started closing long before we realized they would because we're used to NY hours. After a while we figure we should get a cab but have no luck getting one whatsoever. Not sure why but we couldn't hail one or get one we called to pick up. So we're just walking around and this dude pulls up in a little Toyota and just asks us where we're trying to go. We tell him we're trying to get a cab to Southie and he just offers to give us a ride. For absolutely no reason, he lets us in his car and drives us probably 25 or 30 mins out of his way. We even tried to throw him some loot at the end of the ride but he refused.

We probably could have gotten a cab eventually so it wasn't like he saved our lives but that was super generous of him to pick up 3 drunken fools he didn't even know like that. We could have been maniacs for all he knows.