What would you have done?

Virdi

Virdi

Virdi

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So on the school run this morning

I was slightly early and had parked up and waiting in the car.

Infront of me – one of the school mum’s was pumping up the tyres on her car with a little air compressor.

Do you think I should have offered to help?

…or should I just mind my own business?
 
As in a foot pump one? I would have offered to help. Those things are bloody tiring.
 
Virdi said:
So on the school run this morning

I was slightly early and had parked up and waiting in the car.

Infront of me – one of the school mum’s was pumping up the tyres on her car with a little air compressor.

Do you think I should have offered to help?

…or should I just mind my own business?
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What did you do in the end? Option3: post about it on ocuk?
 
Why help someone with inflating a tyre?

What are you to do? Supervise?

Is it because she's a woman, doing a man's job?
 
It seems like she already had things under control.

But, I would offer assistance anyway. Why? Because karma loves to bite me in the backside and I'd probably have got a puncture later in the day if I hadn't.
 
Yes I would’ve regardless of whether it was a woman or a bloke. As others have said its polite to ask.

Got stories of similar happening but one thats vastly different (but sticks out) is when I had my old offices, I locked up the gates on Christmas eve one year and seen an old lady walking around the industrial estate with a bag of presents.. Fast forward, got her into the car for a heat as she was freezing, could barely say a word. Had to drive her around a neighbouring housing estates for something like 45 minutes because she had no idea where her daughter lived. Gave the daughter a polite mouthful about not picking her up from the station or giving her a mobile phone.

Point is, no one else stopped to ask if she was alright. As OTT as it sounds you don’t know if someone is genuinely struggling or not so better to stay on the right side of karma and ask.
 
If u offer to help youre a misogynistic biggot for thinking she needed help.
If you don't you're a waste of skin.

You marked her as being a woman without even knowing how she identified so i think you're just a typical right wing fascist trump lover.

Maybe stay at home and mind your own business?
 
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..So I didn't offer to help.

..and here's my thinking behind it:

I didn’t know this parent or the child.

She clearly knew what she was doing, as she was checking all the tyres - It wasn't just that one tyre was 'flat'

If she was struggling or couldn’t get the thing to work – Then I would have a reason to approach and offer help maybe

But me automatically thinking she’s a woman and doesn’t know how to pump up tyres or use a little air compressor would be the wrong assumption? (I think)
 
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