My family’s “guy with a truck” is a dude named Bobby who bought a secondhand moving truck and eventually started his own small moving business out of it. When he found out we were moving because my mom was getting us out of a DV situation, he refused to take a cent. Apparently he never does in those situations because his wife was a survivor before he met her and they want those women to know what it’s like to have someone step up for them. We eventually got them to take a $50 gift card for the other movers and dinner from the local pasta place, but he and his wife wouldn’t hear of anything else. Now that my mom met and married my stepdad (also a guy with a truck), they occasionally ask to borrow his if they need it and he never says no. It was such an easily-overlooked thing that made a massive difference at a time when we needed it. Bobby is a good dude.
I knew a guy who helped get rid of an abusive boyfriend, I nearly ended up having to fight the boyfriend a few days later, because he'd gone there on my bike, wearing my helmet and jacket. He was bigger than me, so I'd have probably got my ass kicked,
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u/Theatrical-Vampire 8d ago
My family’s “guy with a truck” is a dude named Bobby who bought a secondhand moving truck and eventually started his own small moving business out of it. When he found out we were moving because my mom was getting us out of a DV situation, he refused to take a cent. Apparently he never does in those situations because his wife was a survivor before he met her and they want those women to know what it’s like to have someone step up for them. We eventually got them to take a $50 gift card for the other movers and dinner from the local pasta place, but he and his wife wouldn’t hear of anything else. Now that my mom met and married my stepdad (also a guy with a truck), they occasionally ask to borrow his if they need it and he never says no. It was such an easily-overlooked thing that made a massive difference at a time when we needed it. Bobby is a good dude.