nishdayngesheft – I never actually read zahavasdad’s post. Yours was the last post when I looked at the thread (I sometimes simply skip from a few posts in to the end of a thread if I don’t have time to read every post…), so I commented on yours.
My personal favourite story actually happened to me when I learned in the Mir a few years ago. I broke my toe the night before the general election. Now, in EY the buses do not run on election day leaving me with the task of making my way somehow to Terem (the walk-in medical centre) for an x-ray. As I hobbled my way down Rechov Shmuel Hanovi a taxi pulled up beside me and asked me if I’d hurt myself, when I replied I was going for an x-ray on my toe he told me to get in and he’d take me all the way across Yerusholaim for free. Only a Jew…