Random act of Kindness

This was linked to by another forum but it needs to keep going
http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f3/looking-lotus-owner-david-roanoke-virginia-86010/

I am starting here as this is the first forum that came up in a Google search for Lotus owners. I am looking for a particular Lotus owner and hope that he is either a member here or someone here knows who he is so I can thank him and pay him for what he has done. My son related this story to me late this morning and I have been trying to figure out how to find this gentleman since.

His name is David, he lives in Roanoke, Virginia, was with his daughter in a gray Lotus Elsie and he and his family helped my son's family travel safely to their destination.

To make a very long story short, my son, daughter-in-law, and two grandsons were traveling from their home in KY to visit her parents in PA. They began having some brake troubles along I-81 in Virginia. They ended up in a Walmart parking lot in Roanoke where my son started trying to figure out what was wrong, although he doesn't know that much about cars.

He was approached by a man and his young daughter who asked if they could help in anyway. My son said they were having some trouble with the brakes. This guy took a look at the car and noticed brake fluid coming from a broken line and from another place in the brake system and recommended that they have the car towed to a local shop for repair. My son and daughter-in-law were discussing how they would afford this car repair as he had been laid off from his job for the last two months. This David told them to hold on and made a few phone calls, told my son to wait in the parking lot and that he would be right back. He came back with tools and several bags of stuff from the auto parts store. In the meantime his wife, whose name is Carla in case anyone knows her, and several other daughters came with some other tools and with a meal for everyone and proceeded to entertain my grandsons, which included his wife giving my grandsons rides in the Lotus, while car repairs took place. My son said this David and his daughters worked on the car for several hours in the parking lot fixing the brakes and had to make a few trips back to the auto store and bought a few things there in Walmart. He then gave the car a check over and filled several fluids, told my son they should be good to go, put the extra fluids, many tools and several spare parts in the trunk of my son's car. His daughters handed my daughter-in-law bags of food from a fast food restaurant there in the parking lot and his wife handed her bags of snacks and drinks for the rest of the trip. My son asked how much he owed them for the parts, the food and everything and was told "a safe and fun trip" and then everyone piled into the minivan and Lotus and then just drove off before my son could get any other information about them. A few hours later one of my grandsons found $300 cash in the bottom of the bag of snacks with a note saying "just in case you need it." My son and his family made it to their destination safely last night without any further incident.

My daughter-in-law's father took the car to their local mechanic this morning who related that all of the car's brake hard lines and flexible lines had been changed on both sides with brand new lines, the brake master cylinder was brand new, the rear wheel cylinders were brand new, the brake fluid was brand new and that the rest of the brake system and car seemed to be in great shape. He was apparently impressed with what he called a brake system overhaul especially after being told that it was done in a parking lot by a stranger. He didn't change anything and said the brake system on the car was essentially brand new now and working perfectly. He told them that it would have easily been over $2000 to have all that work done in his shop if not more and told them there were at least several hundred dollars worth of new parts on the car, not to mention the spare parts, tools and fluids in the trunk.

So if anyone knows who this guy is I need to thank him and his family for reaching out to my son and his family and helping them at his own expense in both time and money. I would like to pay for the parts that he replaced on my son's car, the tools and spares he left with them, the food they provided and pay him for the hours of labor he did on behalf of my son and his family.

Please help me find him.

Sincerely,
George Stein
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Wow that is a great story, wish there was more people like that in the world

Damn that's crazy. Glad there's still people like that around.

Oh BTW, I'm that David ;)

Wow, thats almost unreal.

Sweet deal...