Last Saturday night
I was waiting to collect my wife outside of someone's house where she'd been babysitting. True to form she was taking ages to come out to the car so I turned the engine off (I didn't want to leave my engine running in case I disturbed the neighbours.) and shivered in the freezing gloom, and began to scratch an itch on my forehead that had been bothering me for most of the journey.

Suddenly there was a knock on the window, and outside was a man peering in at me.

"You alright mate?" he said, his voice full of concern after I buzzed the window down.

He'd seen me with my head bowed in the car and thought I was crying about something. I assured him that I was indeed fine and thanked him anyway, and he went on his way off into the night. But I thought that was a nice thing to do.
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 13 Feb 2012, 16:02, 2 replies)

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My mate had a row with his Mrs one cold winter's night, and stormed out of the house. He drove away, out into the countryside, going nowhere in particular. After he calmed down a bit, he pulled into a layby, left his engine running, heater on, deciding what to do next.
He'd been there about half an hour, when he was disturbed by 2 police cars and an ambulance who screeched up to his bumper expecting to find a suicide attempt in progress. My mate has no idea who called them, there were no houses nearby, and no-one had approached his car like your story.
Just goes to show that there's always some nosey fucker watching you.
(Rsoles, Mon 13 Feb 2012, 16:15, closed)

Your random act of kindness was turning the engine off
There are always people who park opposite my house who leave the engine running while they score. The dealing I can cope with, it's the noise of the cars that pisses me off.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 13 Feb 2012, 22:52, closed)