He Paid For Her Gas In An Emergency, What She Did Is Absolutely Amazing!

People truly can be lifesavers sometimes, even if they’re complete and total strangers.

A gas station attendant helped a woman to pay for her fuel when she had left her cards at home. However, he never thought that he would end up with a generous reward.

Monet van Deventer was traveling on N2 headed toward Cape Town when she realized her gas meter was running out. The 21-year-old stopped to fill up her car with gas on the outskirts of Cape Town while driving to work in the South African city.

However, after stopping at the Shell garage, Monet realized she had left her bank cards at home and had no way to pay for her petrol, and worst of all, she faced driving through a notoriously dangerous part of town, where she could have easily become stranded.

“I had this strange feeling that I forgot my card. I then started looking for it, and while I was searching, Nkosikho started washing my windows,” van Deventer said.

She explained that he didn’t have to clean her windows, as she forgot her card and wouldn’t be able to pay. However, the worker noticed the red warning light of her fuel gauge and wasn’t just about to let her drive off.

“I said to him, thanks for washing my windows but I can’t put petrol in today. He seemed stressed and shocked because he was looking at my fuel needle which was already in the red,” she added.

However, Nkosikho Mbele, 28, did not think long that he could potentially be a great help for a stranded woman when she ran out of gas and had accidentally left all of her bank cards at home. The kindhearted gas station attendant later paid Monet’s gas worth US$6.31.

He grabbed his own bank card, went to the register, and paid for some gas.

“He said to me, ‘ma’am, you can’t run out of petrol on the N2’. And he said, ‘I’ll pay R100 and whenever you are near again you can just give me back my R100’,” Monet said.

A couple of days later, Monet returned the money with a box of chocolates.

“I was so grateful that she came back. I could see in her eyes that she appreciated my help, you know when someone sees that you have done something for them. I could see it in her eyes that she really appreciated that I had done something for her,” Mbele said.

But the surprise didn’t stop at a single box of chocolates.

Monet posted this story on her Facebook page, and it quickly went viral with thousands of people praising the man. She then decided to start a fundraiser for him, which had massive success.

“Since Nkosikho saved my life I would love to do something in return for him,” she wrote on the fundraiser page. “His 2 children, mom and brother lives with him in Khayelitsha and he will really benefit from any donations.”

The fundraiser was closed with around $94,000 dollars gathered, an absolutely incredible amount for the gas attendant – equivalent to about eight years of salary. And the story actually made rounds higher up in the company as well, who nominated him for the Regional Service Excellence Award.

Shell also promised that they would donate $35,000 to a local charity of the man’s choice.

“I’ve seen the good news and wanted to call and congratulate you for the good work you have done,” chairman Hloniphizwe Mtolo told Mbele. “We have decided to respond to what the public has done and donate half a million rand to a charity that you will choose.”

Sources: Awm, Timeslive, Mypositiveoutlooks