💬 Helped a lost tourist outside Nampally and he wouldn't stop thanking me

Yesterday outside Nampally station a man with a huge suitcase asked me how to reach Salar Jung Museum. His phone map kept pointing him towards a wall. He was sweating through his shirt. I told him to take an auto, 80 rupees at most. He said, they're asking 300. So I stood next to him and bargained with the next driver until it was 90. The driver kept looking at me like I was the tourist. I said, I'm a local, brother. He said, then why are you standing here? I had no answer. I was late for an appointment anyway. The tourist offered me 100 rupees. I refused. He insisted. I refused again, a little louder. A woman selling jasmine at the corner laughed at the whole thing. He kept saying thank you the whole time, with both hands joined, which embarrassed me. It took 4 minutes of my day. He talked about it like I'd found his lost wallet. He was from Kolkata, here for a cousin's wedding, and nobody had picked him up. I watched the auto until it turned the corner at the end of the road, just to be sure. I was 10 minutes late to my appointment and the client didn't mind at all. I told him the story and he said the same thing happened to him in Mumbai once. A stranger helped him find a hotel, and he still calls that man every Eid. I haven't given anyone my address, but I've still checked the post box twice.

Standing next to him and bargaining until it came down to 90, that is a proper act of kindness. Once outside Secunderabad station a woman asked me the way to a hotel and I walked her there because I did not trust her map either. The driver asking why you were standing there is the real joke. Did the tourist reach the museum before it closed?

Auto drivers see a suitcase and add 200 rupees. Happened to my cousin from Chennai near Charminar last month. Last week a man with a dead phone asked me for his hotel lane, so I walked him halfway. He thanked me about 6 times, which was too much for 5 minutes of walking. Your 90 rupee bargain is better than mine. Mine would have ended at 150.