Good Samaritan saves day after 74-year-old's car breaks down in Braintree

After a 74-year-old man's car died in Braintree, a good deed from an anonymous person helped to save the day.

Micky Lawson was driving home around 11 p.m. from a senior's dance at the Viking Club in Braintree when his car broke down on Quincy Avenue.

His daughter, Karen Morad, said Lawson's health problems made the situation even tougher.

"With the hard of hearing and not feeling well, this could have turned out really bad," Morad said. "Nobody stopped, except him. He was the only gentleman that did."

The man found others to help push Lawson's car to a side road before calling for a tow company.

Lawson didn't have the $100 needed to pay for the tow company, so the Good Samaritan pulled five $20 bills from his pocket and paid for it himself.

The 74-year-old asked the man for his name and contact information so he could pay him back, but the man chose to remain anonymous, telling Lawson not to worry and that the tow was on him.

"I don't even know this gentleman, and look what he's doing," Lawson said. "It amazed me."

Back when Morad was a child, she says her dad worked two jobs and would often go driving at night to unwind.

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Whenever Lawson saw someone broken down, he would stop to help. One of the instances ended up in a local paper, in a story about a man refusing to give a woman his name or any information after giving his help.

One good deed, repaid by another decades later.

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