Imagine you’re driving to the supermarket with your mask on. It’s raining heavily and you’re glad that the car park you’re heading to is sheltered.
Halfway through your journey, you saw someone standing beside a house and underneath branches of leaves that could only protect her partially from the rain. She’s in a running attire and looks like she’s going to be the first person in Singapore to freeze to death.
You laugh then drive off and you eventually meet your karma as your car runs out of petrol and you stuck in the middle of CTE.
Either that, or you’re the driver of this car, whereby you make a U-turn, and because you can’t give that poor lady a lift due to safe distancing measures, you gave her an umbrella.
Car Made U-Turn to Pass an Umbrella to a Lady Who’s Stuck in Heavy Downpour
In the midst of negative stories like an auntie spitting at KFC staff or Trump suggesting that people should drink Dettol, a good has come out from Ridout Road, an area in the atas Holland Road.
Our poor lady was out doing her brisk walk along Ridout Road when a sudden thunderstorm struck, and in an area filled with nothing but trees and bungalows, the only shelter she could find is some foliage from a house.
Which means she has blended in completely with her surrounding:
After calling her husband for help, who would come in 5 minutes, she saw a white car. Nothing interesting because roads should have cars, but this car then made a U-turn and passed our protagonist an umbrella.
Pretty sure if not for safe-distancing rules, they’d have brought her into the car and covered her blankets.
Here’s the Facebook user’s post:
Lest you can’t read:
Please help me find the owners of car SGD7333P. I want to thank them personally for their kindness.
I was doing my brisk walk and was caught in a sudden thunderstorm while I was on Ridout Road. I tried to run to seek shelter and there’s none nearby. The thunder and lightning were freaking me out and I made the decision not to run and expose myself in the open.
I found some foliage from a house and stood under it to get some refuge. Shivering and cold, I called hubs to come pick me. It will take him at least 5 minutes or so.
This white car drove past me and saw how pathetic I looked, dripping wet and shivering. The car made a u-turn to come back for me, and the lady in the passenger seat passed me an umbrella. Really touched by the kindness of strangers.
I hope someone on my FB will know the couple who owns this car. I would like to get in touch with them.
There are good people around. So keep the faith and pay it forward whenever we can.
In a world whereby people do good deeds to humblebrag on social media, this couple shows that there are many who do them just because it’s the right thing to do.
But this begs the question: is it really “illegal” to bring her into the car?
Very, Very Grey Area (Again)
For a start, carpooling, in which someone hitches a ride from a driver and pays the driver a sum of money, is not permitted.
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That itself carries a fine of up to $10,000 or six months’ jail. Just yesterday, it was reported that two drivers were booked and their vehicles were seized for investigations.
But how about in this case, when one’s just helping out without any compensation?
With new rules coming in fast and furious, this is yet another grey area that’s not been addressed. After all, this doesn’t happen often.
However, if you’d understand the logic behind the laws, you’d know that it shouldn’t have been allowed if you followed it to the T.
You see, the whole idea of staying at home is not for you to binge-watch Netflix; it’s to limit the movement of the virus, not you. The whole idea is to keep the virus from moving out of your household, which might include 2 or 5 or 10 people.
This bubble gif by a Kiwi would make it easier to understand:
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Therefore, getting into the car with a stranger would have caused one connection in the bubbles, and if everyone does that, more people would die.
So, to help or not to help?
Nevertheless, kudos to the couple in the car to have thought of giving the lady an umbrella instead. I’ve not thought of that; if it were me, I’d give the lady my car and keep the umbrella instead. But that’s just me.