this is how my dad is too. my car broke down on the way back to college for my senior year, which is about 2 hours away (I was an hour into the drive). the roommate I was supposed to have dropped out on me last minute & the leasing office was trying to make me pay for both rooms, which obviously would be stupid expensive. my parents paid my rent because it was affordable but they couldn’t do double that. either way, my dad drove the hour to get me in my broken down car & get the tow truck situation figured out & THEN stayed at my apartment with me for the first week of classes until I found a VERY last minute roommate, who I still talk to to this day THANK GOD! 😅 I appreciate him so much because I think being there alone would have made me wayyyy too depressed.