Excellent story and I commend you for your selfless act.
I have a similar story, in a way.
One day I was running a tad late for an important sales call. This was for a large contract that, at the time, was extremely important that I close the deal.
Anyway, I'm driving along when I see an old lady crossing the street, literally hurdling a large snowbank. She takes a really nasty tumble and is laying flat out in the middle of the road! To my absolute astonishment a few cars actually drive by her missing her by less than a foot! I couldn't believe it. Of course I stopped to help, as any decent human being would do. The lady was in some pain so I offered to drive her either to the hospital or to her residence. She lived in an old folks home about 10 minutes or so away. We got there and I managed to get her inside and looked after.
Needless to say, I was very late for the important sales call. My client was not happy at all. P.O.ed to be frank. Thankfully, he was not a prick like Frank's dude and came around pretty darn quickly once I told him the story. He actually ended up shaking my hand and thanking me for rescuing the lady while stating that we need more people doing honourable acts like that! Wow. I was blown away. We ended up getting the contract and I went back to the old folks home a day or two later and the lady was recovering nicely from her accident.
Sometimes you can do the right thing AND come out ahead anyway.
Nice story Frank. Well done.
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