random acts of kindness

okay, so there we were, having rented a car, learning to drive and we needed a patient teacher! My neighbors, Jimit, Sid and Uday had another roomie we did not know about all this while. S'apelled Troy (ok,that was franglais), this quiet american was bang different from most of the others who I had met or known. I usually thought that with Americans, one needed to fix appointments for everything(dint Ash also mention this in the Late Night show?). It was common among us to just get together one evening at someone's home, unannounced, sit and chatter and suddenly decide to take off for a movie or coffee. Somehow, I never imagined this to happen among the Americans. Most of the them seem to decide what to do, when. I have heard a zillion times, "ok, I will call you at this hour and then we can go and have some coffee maybe". Anyway, so the point is, I thought Americans never did random acts.
Troy, begged to differ. Friday evening, he was lazing and there we were, a bunch of enthued kids(ok, growing adults) with a car. Et, voila, he offered to teach us to drive. Now, the thing is all of us had a little of driving experience before and it needed immense amount of patience to sit with us. And he did! With each one of the 4 of us, sat through, explaining in a calm voice, even when we were driving rashly, turning at a speed of 60 mph, getting honked at on the highway. It would have been a good three hours he spent with us. We finally finished up with our work, then he took off. Although, he has never said anything to any of us as yet, I am sure and aware that we upset his schedule for yesterday.
Such random acts of kindness, doesn't it make the world so much more better place to live in.