That kind of consideration continues today.

We stopped, on a whim, at Poulet d'Orleans for dinner on our way back to Pelican from Orient one evening on our trip last month. We were the only customers. We had a wonderful dinner and sat around discussing island life for about an hour after dinner. The bill was about $70 US. I had about $30 in small bills and a $100 bill from the Casino. He did not have change for the $100 and volunteered, "Give me what you have in small bills and drop off the rest the next time you go by, or just leave it in the mail box." We did stop by and drop it off the next day.

We tried to return a little of that helpfulness one day at Orient. We were sitting on the beach near our room at Club O on Sunday afternoon when we were approached sheepishly by a couple asking if we knew how they could get a key for their car. He, a Dutch expatriot living in St. Martin and his visiting Canadian lady friend, had been at the beach while he went out racing a sailboat and lost his car keys overboard. They weren't planning on doing anything but sunning and sailing so didn't have any cash or cards with them and no keys to get in their car. He said he had spare keys at home on the hill above Divi, so I drove him home to get his keys and he brought another car back, just in case those did not work.

Of course it was the lady friend who approached Gretchen to ask if she know how they could make arrangements to solve the problem...guys don't ask strangers for help! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/busted.gif" alt="" />