Thursday, March 10, 2011

Changing Tiiires

 I started thinking sociology the other day when I picked my little sister up from basketball.When I looked across the street at the gas station I saw a guy changing a woman's tire, I was thinking how nice it was when I realized it was my brother. He had been walking by the gas station when a woman pulled in with a flat and didn't have her phone on her, so he had offered to change her tire for her.
 As he was changing the tire the woman kept asking him if she could pay him, and saying how nice it was that there were still good people out there, because not everyone wouls stop to help a stranger. My brother was breaking the folkway that people don't stop to help starngers in need. It's funny to think that that would be a folway, wouldn't you think everyone would want to stop and help people? Because if they were in the situation where they needed help they would want someone to stop and help them.

1 comment:

  1. Perfect example of a folkway! Kinda sad how we tend to be suspicious of nice people these days. I'm glad your brother was a nice guy. Too bad more people can't be like that!

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