DHL messenger becomes a helper in need for a pensioner: "He is my savior"
Created: 09/15/2022, 15:32
By: Florian Hagemann
A melon as a thank you: Stefan Zarbock meets Ruth Weiffenbach at the Weserspitze, whom he recently helped in need.
© Florian Hagemann
For some, what the courier Stefan Zarbock did in Kassel is a matter of course.
For 88-year-old Ruth Weiffenbach he is a hero.
Kassel – "That's my savior," says Ruth Weiffenbach when she sees Stefan Zarbock.
The 88-year-old would not have recognized him right away, but due to the circumstances, she knows who the man who is facing her now is: Meeting in the pouring rain on the Weserspitze in Kassel between the pensioner from the Fasanenhof and her helper in need - there , where both met at the beginning of September, coincidentally, as reported by hna.de.
On that day, Stefan Zarbock drove his DHL van along Ihringshäuser Straße in the direction of the Weserspitze.
At the crossroads, he sees Ruth Weiffenbach making a mishap: Because the net inside has torn, two melons roll out of her walker onto the busy street.
"A dangerous situation, there was a lot of activity," says Ruth Weiffenbach.
Zarbock stops immediately, switches on the hazard lights, runs out into the street and collects the melons.
DHL messenger helps pensioner in Kassel: "I wasn't aware that there were people who were so helpful"
He himself describes the action as a matter of course, for Ruth Weiffenbach it is much more than that. "I wasn't aware that there were people who were so helpful," she says - and repeats what she recently wrote to the HNA.
She found Zarbock's behavior so remarkable that she contacted the newspaper shortly after the incident.
She wanted to catch up on what she had forgotten in the hustle and bustle back then: to thank the helper in need, whose name she didn't even have.
After her request was published in the HNA, Stefan Zarbock got in touch because the 34-year-old was again impressed by the pensioner's efforts to find her helper.
When they meet at the Weserspitze, they both thank each other.
The conversation is not just for the exchange of niceties.
Both describe once again the side effects of the relief operation.
Many drivers would have honked because the DHL van suddenly stood in their way.
"People passed by, rolled down the window and asked what I would do on the street." The man from Vellmar, who now wants to start his own business, knows this from his part-time job.
He delivers packages every Saturday.
“You find that people are very ungrateful.
You are not treated well.”
Kassel: Pensioner gives DHL messenger a melon as a thank you
He is all the more pleased about the recognition of Ruth Weiffenbach - especially since it also calms his guilty conscience.
When he was 13 or 14 years old in Vellmar, he saw a man drop a lot of apricots on the floor.
At that time he did not intervene.
Well yes.
As a thank you, Ruth Weiffenbach brought him a little something: a melon.
(Florian Hagemann)
There are also helpful people on the internet.
A pensioner from Alfeld in Lower Saxony recently received a lot of encouragement there when the 71-year-old lost his wallet after visiting Kaufland.
His stepdaughter complained that he was dependent on his pension.
There was a lot of support online.