After gas station worker buys lady’s fuel he gets 8 years of salary as reward
She thought it was “a business thing Shell does for you” when the gas attendant told her that she didn’t have to pay for gas.
But Shell doesn’t give away free gas to people just because they can’t pay for it.
It was the gas station attendant who paid for it out of it his own pocket. All because he wanted to make sure she didn’t run out of gas while on the highway.
“I was just doing what anyone else would have done, from the heart. I believe there is no black and white and that we are all one people and I just want to bring people together,” gas station attendant Nkosikho Mbele said according to LAD Bible.
Monet van Deventer, 21, was driving through Cape Town in South Africa to meet some clients when she realized she was out of gas.
She stopped at a station to fill up, then realized that she forgot her card.
That’s when Mbele came over to wash her windows for her. She told him that he didn’t have to wash her windows and that she couldn’t pay.
“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 said, according to Times Live. “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’.”
Mbele ended up paying for about $7 worth of gas for van Deventer.
“I thought, perhaps it was a business thing that Shell does this for you and then I saw him literally take his own card and pay for it. When I drove away it dawned on me what just happened,” she said.
Mbele never expected van Deventer to actually return.
He makes about R1,100 a week so R100 is a good amount of his daily pay.
“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,” said Mbele.
Van Deventer returned with the money and a box of chocolates.
She also set up a GoFundMe account for Mbele.
It was extremely successful and raised about $94,000 which is about 8 years worth of his salary. Shell also said they would contribute $35,000 to a charity of Mbele’s choosing. Mbele said he’d like to use the funds to improve his community.
“I now have R500,000 (£26,600) from Shell to donate to charity and I want to help young people and make a difference in their lives and I have R500,000 to look after my own two children,” Mbele said.”I am going to use the money I have to make the big man up above us all very happy. I want to do something that could help the children. I have to sit down and think. It’s still like I’m in a dream.”
When Van Deventer asked why he helped her, his reason was simple: “I’m a believer,” he told her.
“I know how dangerous that stretch of the N2 is that she wanted to travel and my faith in God told me it was the right thing to pay for her to travel safely so I bought her fuel for her,” he said. “I was just happy to see her drive away knowing she would arrive where she had to get to safely and I had no idea that I would have my life so blessed in return for what I did.”
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Source: News 24, Times Live, LAD Bible