The dilemma

His pickup is sitting three hundred meters past the barrier, which is a pole, two oil drums, and whichever soldiers are on it that hour. 'It stalled on me around midday, {{NAME}},' he says. 'Two of us can push it back before dark.' You rebuilt the fuel pump on that truck three weeks ago and it was running clean, and up and down the lane you can hear windows being pulled shut.

Your options

1. You call your cousin at the tea shop by the barrier and ask what the soldiers are doing today.
2. You get your rope and your fuel can and walk out with him now. The road being closed does not change what you owe him.
3. You tell him to leave it until the road opens, and you will fix it for free then.