Random Canadian Acts of Kindness?
Yesterday started badly for Ian Welsh in Toronto. His computer crashed—no response from the power button. After the taxi dropped him at the computer repair store—he discovered he’d left his backback in the cab.
Then—it all ended well. The question is—why?
Says Ian:
Turns out it was just the power supply. I thought it wasn’t, because enough power was getting through to keep the power light on the motherboard on, but it turns out it was damaged enough that there wasn’t enough power to boot.
Since the techie did more than he had to and wouldn’t let me pay him "under warranty" he said, and seemed offended when I offered, I gave his business (family owned) a plug at the Agonist.
And the cabbie whose cab I left my backpack in, returned it to the store he dropped me off at.
A banner day for "people can be really decent sometimes" and a nice anti-cynicism dose.
A banner day indeed. Possible explanations:
1. People in Toronto are just nicer than the rest of us
2. Ian’s a decent fellow, and you get back what you put out
3. The weather was great yesterday, which makes people act well
4. Ian was lucky; sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t
5. What’s the big deal? People are generally nice—this is the norm.
I think those are pretty much the big generic explanations, unless you’ve got some I missed.
So—what’s your take on it? Did Ian have a good day? And if so, why?