{"id":5992,"date":"2025-11-30T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:19:58","slug":"i-helped-an-elderly-couple-with-a-flat-tire-on-the-highway-a-week-later-my-life-completely-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5992","title":{"rendered":"I Helped an Elderly Couple with a Flat Tire on the Highway \u2013 a Week Later, My Life Completely Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I helped an elderly couple with a flat tire on the highway. A week later, my mom called me: \u201cStuart! Why didn\u2019t you tell me? Turn on the television \u2014 right now!\u201d<\/p>\n

On the way to my parents\u2019 place for Thanksgiving, I saw an older couple stranded on the shoulder \u2014 man shivering by his car, wife clutching her coat. I pulled over, told my daughter Emma to stay put, changed the tire in 15 minutes. The man shook my hand, gratitude in his eyes, calling our help a real kindness.<\/p>\n

We got to my parents\u2019 house, had dinner, and I thought that was the end. Then, a few days later, my mom\u2019s call shocked me: \u201cStuart! How could you not tell me?! Turn on the television! RIGHT NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I helped an elderly couple with a flat tire on the highway. A week later, my mom called me: \u201cStuart! Why didn\u2019t you tell […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}