An Iowa man's encounter with a kind stranger after his car broke down while he was on a 370-mile road trip to a funeral has gone viral.
Todd Steinkamp had been traveling from Iowa to Green Bay, Wisconsin when he met a Good Samaritan who lent him his truck to complete his trip.
He had been 70 miles away from his destination when his car began to give out.
Todd Steinkamp (right) had been travelling to a funeral from Iowa to Green Bay, Wisconsin when he met a Good Samaritan, Glenn Geib, who lent him his truck to complete his trip
Steinkamp asked for directions for a nearby rental service when Geib offered him his 1999 Chevrolet Silverado
In a Facebook[4] post, Steinkamp said he had set out on the journey at 5.30am on Tuesday when he began to hear a grinding noise from his front left tire.
Shortly after 7am, Steinkamp had reached Wild Rose, Wisconsin, a town with a population of 725 when he became desperate for help and pulled into Lauritzen Sports.
He met Glenn Geib, a 74-year-old mechanic. Steinkamp said the elderly man noticed he was formally dressed and asked him where he was headed.
Steinkamp's car gave out in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, 70 miles away from his destination in Green Bay
'I told him I was from Iowa on my way to a funeral. He paused and said "pull it around back". He got it up on the lift and confirmed it was the wheel bearing,' Steinkamp wrote.
Geib warned him that his car would not make the full trip. But when Steinkamp asked the mechanic where he could find a car rental agency, the man pulled out his own car keys and offered him his truck.
'Take my truck. Fill it up with gas, don't turn on the emergency lights and get going. She'll do 120mph if you need it to,' he told Steinkamp with a smile.
He met the kind mechanic in Lauritzen's Sports in the small town of Wild Rose
Act of kindness: Geib told Steinkamp his car would not make the 70-mile trip and offered his own car telling Steinkamp to fill up the gas tank
Steinkamp said he was shocked the mechanic would offer a stranger his own car after only meeting him 10 minutes before.
As he was desperate to make it to the funeral, he accepted the offer and drove to Green Bay in the 1999 Chevrolet Silverado.
Steinkamp said he returned to the auto shop after the funeral that same day and thanked Geib.
'Glenn…the [74-year-old] mechanic with a grip of steel turned a terrible day into a good one with a great lesson…just be kind and help if you can', he said.
The elder man told WBAY[5] he helped Steinkamp as he seemed like had gone through quiet an ordeal.
'If you give a guy a truck, your truck don't come back, it's an old used truck what are you going to do,' he said.
Steinkamp's told the heartwarming story on Facebook on Wednesday which has since been shared 7,400 times.
Lauritzen's Sports also took to Facebook to thank the kind man.
'Thank you Glenn from all of us at Lauritzen's for taking such great care us and our customers and the village of Wild Rose. All your efforts and hard work do not go unnoticed,' they said.
