Be the name people scroll to when their car breaks down at midnight.

Reliability gets built entirely out of inconvenient moments, since that is the only time it is ever tested. Being the person someone thinks of in trouble is not a personality trait, it is an accumulated record of having answered before. That reputation forms slowly and belongs specifically to you. It is also one of the few things genuinely worth being known for.

Take the next inconvenient call. Offer the practical thing rather than the sympathetic sentence. You will find out fast that the list of people who do this is short.