Starter motor switch bypassed

Our 22 year old car would not start at noontime on a 100 degree day in this small town, which was 5 hours and hundreds of miles from home. The proprietor and his family interrupted their lunch to crawl around on the hot asphalt to try to figure out the problem. Eventually, they towed the car back to his shop to work in the shade. He had plenty of work already in progress, but prioritized ours for the plight we were in. Having spent more than an hour towing and ruling out most problem areas, he then opened access to ignition switch behind the steering wheel and jumpered a connection to rotate the starter motor. A piece of metal had fractured off of the ignition key lock cylinder, preventing normal actuation. It would have taken at least one more day to have gotten one shipped to Caney. Had he not jumpered that wire for us, we would have had to shell out money for a motel stay. So he not only saved us a lot of money that way, but he charged us only a small sum for his hour and a half of helping us, less than most places would have charged for the tow alone.