A filling station worker named Nkosikho Mbele has been rewarded handsomely by a grateful customer whom he had shown kindness to.
Ron Project reports that a lady from Gordons Bay, Monet van Deventer, had stopped at the Shell Ultra City False Bay filling station out the outskirts of CapeTown in South Africa to fill her car, which was near empty on gas. The account manager had forgot her card at home.
Nkosikho Mbele who happened to be the attendant on duty had first begun wiping the lady’s car screen before rendering the service she requested.
It was when African, Nkosikho Mbele wanted to fill her car that Monet looked through her things and could not find her card. She then realized she had forgotten her card at home. In most cases, she would be out of luck; she’d have to travel all the way back home, low on gas, to retrieve the card. That is not to mention that Monet was a young white woman at only age 21 and was traveling into a notoriously dangerous South African area by herself; so not filling up her tank would put her in even greater risk, if she were to run out of fuel on her 35-mile drive and become stranded on her own.
It is well-known and documented that the places in which Monet was heading are dangerous. In May of 2019, a young couple were shot dead when their car ran out of fuel and they had become stranded.
“I asked the petrol attendant to hold off putting fuel because I couldn’t find my purse and after a few minutes I told him that I had left my money and cards at home,” said Monet. She told Nkosikho Mbele that she would take a chance on making it to work.
Thankfully, Nkosikho Mbele was a kind and thoughtful citizen who did not care that he was black and she was white.
Nkosikho Mbele came up with a solution for the stranded lady
The 28-year-old petrol attendant then stepped in with a solution. He offered to pay for her fuel with his card with the promise that Monet would return it when next she stopped by. He knew this would help her avoid the danger of becoming stranded.
He told her, “No ma’am you can’t run out of fuel on the N2. It is too dangerous.”
He then went on to fill her car after paying R100 (₦ 2,750.98) with his own money. Currently in U.S. dollars, that is $6.62. It may not seem like a lot, but in South Africa, $6.62 can often go a lot further than it can in the U.S. because the price of food and living is generally much lower than in the U.S.
Monet said, “I was so shocked as it was such an amazing gesture and it made my day.”