I don’t know how to act when a stranger offers help. True story, yesterday I was stranded when I left work at 10:00 PM and the last bus left me. It was a busy street and I had decided to walk the 40 minute journey back to my house when a stranger pulled over and offered me a ride. I had not much time to analyze the situation but I did anyway. I figured I could physically overpower the driver but even then I wasn’t sure if I should get in the car. What was the motive behind this simple good deed? It can’t just be to help can it? I’ve never come across anyone who would go out of their way to help someone they don’t know. It’s just not human nature in these days. So I did what anyone else would’ve done in my situation. I took the license number on my phone and sent it to my sister through text before I got in the car. The stranger gave me a ride to the nearest metro station where I could easily get home. Nothing happened. I was still uneasy about the whole thing. Was it just a random good deed? Is that possible?
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Yes it is. Though you must be carefull. I would do the same (but to a chick like me) if they seem in trouble. some humans are kind
I refuse rides, too, from strangers. what a smart idea to txt msg the license plate!
Once though, after moving to a new town, I got very lost. I had a little map, but I was all turned around. It was winter, and dark at 6:30. I saw an older couple in a car, flagged them down, and asked if they'd give me a ride back to the main rode. They hesitated at first, but agreed anyway. I'm glad they did.
What about casual car pooling? San Franciscans are jumping into strange cars to save a buck and the environment. My post: http://www.progressiveu.org/190000-save-a-buck-save-the-environment-ride-with-a-stanger
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If I were you, I wouldn't have accepted the ride. I'm too suspicious. As you say, things like this don't happen to often these days. But what do happen are violence acts of all kinds.
It's sad, but that's today's times. I look by as I'm driving and see people all the time and wish I could offer them a ride, but in the end I don't because I feel they will look at me with suspicion and not accept it anyways, and then have a story about how some weird red-head tried to get them into her car.
I will, however, always stop for someone who's broken down and offer for them to use my cell phone, and have helped change flat tires, batteries, and the like. People look at me with confusion whenever I do these things. Even my husband did the first time I made him pull over to help someone.
The trunk of the car a ways ahead of us had come open, and while they were trying to pull over, several Easter baskets and toys went every where. We weren't on a busy highway or anything, but still a pretty big road and every one just kept driving right by and one guy honked and flipped them off. I always have flares in the car, so we stopped and lit a couple flares like 100 feet behind us or something, and helped this lady recollect all her Easter goodies and tied down her trunk lid.
LOL, it must have looked so rigged because that stupid thing wouldn't stay shut. We had just gone grocery shopping, and the only thing we had to keep it shut was saran wrap! We used the whole roll on that stupid trunk.
I hope she got it fixed!
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I never would do that. You never know what could happen. I would just call all my friends to come get me.