This Rare Breed

Given the situation below, what would you do?



You've become a member of the university book club and decided to borrow one of the DVD's in their collection. You proceed to your car, which is parked beside a scarp of some sort, and take your laptop from the plush seat. However, luck is seemingly against you today, and the DVD slips out of your grasp only to land on the foliage below. You put down your laptop, showcase your innate talent in cursing and climb down to reclaim that damned piece of plastic in a manner reminiscent of Katniss Everdeen. 


Then, just as you begin to look at the world as a harsh reality where humans are obliged to kneel down before the forces of gravity and of men with chiseled stomachs (I speak for both genders), a rare breed of Homo sapiens prevents you from stepping into apparent death.


"It's okay," he says, moving down to retrieve the DVD. "I got this."


As bizarre and unlikely as this seems, it is actually happening-- not only in front of you, but to you. You are so dumbfounded (and insulted, because you are partially feminist) that you forget to take note of his features and only remember the appearance of his messenger bag. He hands you the DVD back and you thank him profusely. 


I stand corrected. Fate is good to you today.


This happened to my friend, the lucky one, earlier today. The particular "breed of Homo sapiens" I mentioned  four paragraphs ago is so rare it is almost extinct. Women call them "gentlemen"; men, on the other hand, call them "passé".The evolution of manhood is such a complicated process. I sometimes find it amusing, even. Some modern-day men probably would have just stared if the aforesaid situation happened. It is either that or  he would have gone to a nearby eatery to fatten himself up instead of eliminating fats by amateur mountain-climbing. I'm generalizing, which is eerily prejudicial, but I'm only presenting logical propostions.

You don't encounter men like DVD boy everyday so be thankful when you do. Heaven is watching over you.