asking for a ride
By adidas7878
@adidas7878 (1891)
United States
July 5, 2007 9:00pm CST
a couple days ago me and my brother was a midnight snack run, we stopped at taco bell to get some food, before we left a older lady in her late thirty, early forty stop us and ask us if we could give her a ride home which is a couple of blocks away, she is walking home because her car broke down a few block back the other way, and she would give me some money when i drop her off. i told her i cant, i have to take my brother home because it is past his curfew. have you ever pick up anyone before? i done it one time it was pouring out and the person's car broke down in front of my house and he was trying to push it home, but i have never have anyone ask me that before this time, most of the time i offer them the hands when i see them in need. what would you done?
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5 responses
@Dan_ul (858)
• Romania
16 Jul 07
I believe in a nice cool world... a great world would be the one where normal drivers, that has a free seat in the car and heading in the same direction as a person... should take her free charge... but in the same ideal world both the driver and the person that he picked up shouldn't be a serial killer or a mass murderer... but people still expect to be payed and most of them are picking up people just to earn some extra money... and i live in Romania and it's not an ideal world...
but I still hope:)
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
17 Jul 07
well i am just being careful, you never know what kind of people around, and i would let her use my cell phone if she really need to, and plus there is a gas station half block down the road too.
@karadiablo (313)
• United States
6 Jul 07
I think over all I would not have given the person a ride, if she only lived a couple of blocks away, it would even be strange for her to ask. Unless of course you are talking about a shady neighborhood, then the reason why she possibly asked you for the ride is so nothing would happen to her, and since you were with your brother she probley thought that seemed like a safe option since assuming your brother is a kid, people with kids are not usually crazy.
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
6 Jul 07
it wasnt a shady neighborhood at all, it is the nicer part of the town too, i also think that if she does live two blocks away, she could walk home, plus i drove past the driction of where she said she left her car, i dont see any broken down vechile.
@karadiablo (313)
• United States
6 Jul 07
I personally think that your gut instinct was right. After all there really was no reason for her to be asking if it was a few blocks, and since you didn't see any car. Heck I wouldn't be regretting the choose I made, I think at the end I would feel relieved. Sometimes one has to look out for there own well being. Yes, it is nice to help, and as humans it is our first instinct but it should have to come ata cost.
@Dolcerina (3376)
• Hungary
6 Jul 07
It is good to be good.
If somebody needs my help, I do not refuse it, unless if I really cannot help. But I do not like when somebody thinks I am a fool.
I would feel guilty if I did not help. I woul hear the GOD inside my heart asking me: WHY NOT?
This world is so rude. Often people do not help each other only if they have any profit from the "help". And yes, people are scare from each other in the most countries. But still there are pure innocent countries.
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
6 Jul 07
like i said i try to help when i feel the need the person need to be help, in this case i didnt, speicaly since. she lives about two blocks away from where she asked me. in a way i feel bad, but in away i am worry something bad would happend
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
16 Jul 07
with all that goes on, I think you were right in not giving her a ride. I never give rides to strangers. Likewise she should not be asking strangers for rides. you would have to wonder why she did not borrow the phone at taco bell and call someone she knew for help.
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
17 Jul 07
yea, who know, i dont want to sounds like i am mean or heartless or anything, but the unknow of the person and stuff also scare me plus i have a younger brother with me so it is another reason i didnt give her a ride
@Philboi119 (347)
• Philippines
6 Jul 07
if you were in her shoes... how would you feel about it? when you really know that a person need help and you can help actually, isn't it nice and fulfilling that you are able to help somebody in need?
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
6 Jul 07
it happend to me before, i walked 5 miles home, yes it is nice to help people out, but i am also worry my own safty plus my brother's what happend if she turn out to be crazy, i dunno it didnt feel right, i follow my gut instact alot, so i dunno i could be wrong.
