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On the day when two men who swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath are convicted of trying to blow people up, and an 18-year-old was convicted of shooting an 11-year-old dead, one man has this afternoon gone a long way to restoring my faith in humanity. How can just one person achieve this, I hear you ask? Well, let me explain. At the end of last week my exhaust started to make somewhat sickly noises, noises which progressively became worse until today I thought I should do something about it. I took my elderly yet predominantly healthy car to one of the larger tyre and exhaust outlets (I'm not going to name names, but they allegedly fit quickly), where the bloke says he'll take a look at it. He sticks it up on the ramp and quickly finds the problem - a crack in the pipe between the back-box and the catalytic convertor. Nothing else, just a crack. He tells me I'll just need the rear something or another replaced and it shouldn't be too much. Back into the office we go to check the part on the computer, and I know somethings wrong when his eyes widen considerably. He then turns to me and tells me it's going to cost me £120. And they won't be able to do it until tomorrow. £120!!!! My jaw obviously drops and you can tell he's actually feeling a bit sorry for me. He then takes me too one side, away from the other bloke working in the office, and proceeds to tell me that if I take it to another tyre and exhaust place in the city, they might be able to just cut the cracked bit of pipe out and weld in a replacement piece. It'll probably be a bit cheaper, he says. Faced with £120 or 'a bit cheaper', I decide to go for the latter and make my way into town. I go into this new place, explain what the other bloke had said and asked what they could do. He takes a look and says they can do it. How much, I ask. £40 he says. Come back in half an hour and it'll be done. I am a seriously happy bunny - that first bloke's honesty and kindness has saved me £80, a not insubstantial amount in these times of economic hardship. I'm tempted to stop in tomorrow and bung him a fiver to buy himself a pint! So, my question to you is this. What have people done for you, out of the goodness of their own hearts, which has restored you faith in humanity? And Alan Sex's picture posting, while greatly appreciated, doesn't count!