Petrol Attendant Fills Up Customer’s Car and Her Hope for South Africa

A petrol attendant at a Shell garage today not only filled up a woman’s car with petrol, when she didn’t have the money to pay, but in so doing… he filled her heart with hope for her beloved South Africa.

Monet van Deventer said in a post published in Afrikaans on Thursday evening that early this morning she had been on her way to the Cape when she stopped at a petrol station to fill up her car.

Just before asking the attendant to fill up her car, she had a feeling that she’d forgotten her bank card at home.

“While I searched for my card, a young man started cleaning her windows conscientiously,” she wrote.

After  the search she told him that she couldn’t find her card, and unfortunately wouldn’t be able to put petrol in.

His response was incredible:

“Ma’am you can’t run out of petrol on the N2. I’ll throw in R100 and then you can just bring back my R100 whenever you are near again.”

Before Monet could say another word, he not only filled her car with petrol, but paid with his own card!!!

He didn’t even ask for Monet’s name or number! Instead he only told her that she must drive safely.

When she returned to give him back the money, Monet asked him how come he had helped her and how did he trust that she would bring the money back?

His answer was:

“Ma’am I am a believer.”

Monet said on Facebook: “Dankie Nkosikho vir jou mooi hart. Jy het vandag vir my hoop gegee vir ons land. Mag Jesus jou lewe bless!” (“Thank you Nkosikho for your beautiful heart. Today you gave me home for our land. May Jesus bless your life.”)

#ThankYouNkosikho #ThankYouMonetForSharing #ThankYouToAllTheKindStrangersinSA

Read Monet’s original post in Afrikaans here.