stranded biker

While out for a bike ride over a year ago, I got my first flat tire and I had no clue about how to change a bike tire but I had all the 'stuff' to do it in my little bike pouch and hey, I have an i-phone - I googled it.  I went step by step and got that *&$^& rear tire back on the bike (amazing!) ....and with my one canister of air, the tire did not inflate. I was deflated. (could not reist)  I was gearing up for a long walk home... but then a good samaritan arrived in the SMALLEST car.  Owner of a new deli in the neighborhood called MARIE'S - Carl pulled over, stuffed my bike into his trunk and with the hatch open, drove me home.  I could not thank him enough, so I told him I would tell all my friends and neighbors about his new place which I did via a massive email blast.  That weekend he was swarmed with customers telling him 'the stranded biker sent him'.  The next time I stopped in for lunch, he asked me in his comedic way 'how many friends do you have anyway???!!" because they had done 2 weeks' worth of business in a single weekend. More than a year and many Marie's meals later, Juli now works there and when we dropped by to pick her up the other night, Carl told me that he told our story to the Daily Record and they wrote about it!  Good karma gets published - yay:  Daily Record Article