People took advantage of good deed

I often heard the expression “no good deed goes unpunished.” I didn’t believe it, but I’m beginning to.

On June 15, on her way home from visiting friends, my granddaughter noticed what appeared to be a 2017 Honda vehicle broken down on the corner of our street and Avenue B. There were two young men and a boy in the car. She asked if they needed help, and they said they had called their brother because they didn’t have a jack. She drove the three houses down to our house and woke me up (it was about 10:30 p.m.). We walked back to where they were parked. One of the young men walked back to our house with us and I gave him a jack to use. At about midnight they rang the doorbell and asked if we had a lug wrench, since the brother had arrived (he was in a dark BMW but didn’t have a jack or a lug wrench). He had only a stroller in his trunk. He left to go get a special lug nut remover, but I never saw him return.

I got them the tools they needed and stated that I had received the set as a gift from my wife several years ago and they were still new, expensive and hard to replace. By this time I was exhausted (I’m 82 years old) and told them to put the tools and jack in a wagon in the driveway. In the morning I found the jack but the tools were not returned.

I am a Christian and try to help others when I can. However, this is the second time in the last few months when my good deeds have been taken advantage of. Driving a new vehicle leads me to believe they didn’t NEED the tools, but they meant a lot to me. I waited this long in the hope that they would have a change of heart and return them. WILLIAM KING Yuma