Good Samaritan in a wheelchair

Oct 08, 2014

I would like to say thank you to a real Good Samaritan who was there when I needed help. I am a volunteer driver and I took a client to KGH on Sept. 15 for an appointment. I was sitting in my car at the main entrance when a man in another car across from me told me I had a flat tire. I later learned that his name was Murray Griffin. I had never had this happen before and he advised that I could call for a tow, but that he had a pump and would try to blow the tire up. He then opened his door, slid back the door behind his seat, reached over his seat and grabbed a wheelchair. He brought the wheelchair up to his side and slid out of his seat into it. I said, "You can't do this for me," and he replied, "Yes, I can."

He wheeled over to my car with the pump, put it on the valve stem, showed me how to plug it into my lighter socket and started to pump up the tire, but it was going too slow, so he decided to change the tire instead. He got the donut and jack out of my trunk, put them on his lap, brought them to the front side of my car, jacked up the car and took off the flat tire. In the meantime, another gentleman had stopped and offered to help, so after Murray took the tire off the other gentleman carried it back to the trunk while he put the spare on. Murray then asked him to tighten the bolts some more and that was all the help he needed. I tried to give him some money but he refused. He said he had been hit by a train on Bath Road in '93, near where No Frills is now, and that he was only glad to help whenever he can.

I am still in disbelief that he could do all that from a wheelchair. What a great man. I hope he sees this and realizes how much I appreciated his help. I wish him all the best in his future.

Thanks again, Murray Griffin!

Janet Layfield