But really, thank you.

Today I have had a few interactions with strangers that have made me think a little.
I had a very strange interaction with a man at a gas station in Palo Alto. Something about it's his lucky day, he was 66 but he didn't look like it, and then he asked me to take my picture...to which I said, "You don't need my picture." The conversation was strange, so I'll spare you the details. But the story I wanted to get to happened to me this afternoon. I went to my car today to put some recently purchased bike racks back in their boxes to take back to the store. Can somebody tell me how something shaped like this...

Is supposed to fit in something shaped like thin shoe box?

I don't understand it either. It became very apparent that I was having a hard time getting both of these squished back in their boxes, and I may or may not have been shaking them with some false hope that they would magically shimmy their way into the box. I'm sure I was comical to watch. There were a few people walking by, but I have felt like people mostly keep to themselves around here, and didn't think anything of it. Then, out of the blue a nice man walking by came up, said, "Do you need help?" and started twisting the bike racks one at a time back into their respective box. It took him a minute to figure it out, but he did it, and as I was thanking him, he just smiled and walked away. You have no idea how relieved I was after he helped me, and the first thought that entered my head was, "There are good people in this world."