I saw a lady walking in heavy rain on Sunday morning

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Whilst I was driving on Sunday I espied a lady getting drenched in said rain.
I fleetingly thought of offering her a lift to some shelter then thought better of it.
Single older guy, stops to offer a single lady a lift with no witnesses?
Likely outcome was she would decline the lift and note my car rego, pass it to the police as a "suspicious person"
Police would be knocking on my door.
Do not need such hassles.
 

Bretrick said:
Whilst I was driving on Sunday I espied a lady getting drenched in said rain.
I fleetingly thought of offering her a lift to some shelter then thought better of it.
Single older guy, stops to offer a single lady a lift with no witnesses?
Likely outcome was she would decline the lift and note my car rego, pass it to the police as a "suspicious person"
Police would be knocking on my door.
Do not need such hassles.
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yep, we've all got to think along these lines these days.. sad !!
 

This morning I passed a lady along the highway doing some kind of odd ritual. No idea what it was, but she choose a strange place to do it, right in front of a closed drive-in on the highway. She was gray haired, but probably younger than I, just a guess.

I did think about stopping, but wasn't sure it made sense. Not so much worried about her calling the police as just intruding on her privacy...
 
Remy said:
Sadly this is the state of some people. Don't know what her issue was. You did the right thing. Perhaps the police noted her walking or someone called it in.
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I agree about calling it in if you're really worried about someone.

Husband and I did that once, years ago, for a lady who was left, by her bus driver, at a rest stop in the AZ night. Felt so bad for her. She kept saying it was alright, but it very obviously wasn't as she was wandering back and forth, looking panicked. I still think about her on occasion and hope the state police checked on her, as they said they would, and things turned out okay.
 
Bretrick said:
Whilst I was driving on Sunday I espied a lady getting drenched in said rain.
I fleetingly thought of offering her a lift to some shelter then thought better of it.
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I used to have an extra old umbrella in my car that I could loan to coworkers who had forgotten theirs, if you'd had an extra umbrella you could have given it to her. But, if you go out and buy an extra umbrella that would guarantee you would never again see anyone who needed one! Life is so contrary.
 
Bretrick said:
Whilst I was driving on Sunday I espied a lady getting drenched in said rain.
I fleetingly thought of offering her a lift to some shelter then thought better of it.
Single older guy, stops to offer a single lady a lift with no witnesses?
Likely outcome was she would decline the lift and note my car rego, pass it to the police as a "suspicious person"
Police would be knocking on my door.
Do not need such hassles.
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Reminds me of my walk a few days ago ... No, no one was offering me any rides and the rain wasn't coming down hard either ..:giggle:
but it's been so long since we had cooler temps and a little rain, that I had to go walking, and I didn't want my umbrella!
.... at the time it was 'lightly drizzling' , breezy and cool -- and it felt so darn good, I just wanted to stay out in it.


Well, when I came across a couple ladies by my building, they looked at my shirt with water drops and you would think I just came in from a thunderstorm! .... they acted like I must be crazy to let myself get wet on purpose ..lol
 
About 15 years ago..I had driven to a remotely situated giant weekend market in the next county... .. stupidly I hadn't double checked my fuel gauge , and I ran out just about 1/2 a mile from the venue, which meant I wouldn't be able to return home either ... It was a country road, but extremely busy with traffic due to the market being there , and my little car was in a precarious position where it had stuttered to a halt..

A man and his wife and kids who'd come from the market stopped to ask if they could help.. and drove me to the nearest petrol garage to get fuel.. I had to buy a petrol can.. and filled it with a gallon of fuel, and they drove me back to where they found me..

I'm not so sure if it was today.. if anyone would dare stop... and be so helpful.. not that they wouldn't want to, but it's just so risky now..
 
A little rain isn't going to hurt her, but that was kind of you to think of giving her a ride.

Years ago, I was walking on a dark highway with an empty gas can very late at night.
A man pulled over and said he would give me a ride to town.
He was so nervous, wouldn't talk.
He stopped before we got to the city lights and let me out again in the dark.
I asked if he could drop me at the nearest gas station about seven blocks away.
He said "Oh NO! I'm married! If my wife hears about you she will divorce me!"

"Seriously?"
 
I have given people rides who were in need and seemed safe. Never regretted it.

The one that made me most nervous was a guy hitchhiking on Highway 30 near the Nevada/Utah border. Anyone who has driven that road knows how desolate the area is, desert no water, no trees, nothing. Only a car every hour or so, sometimes less.

The guy looked pretty rough, but I knew no one could make it out there without help. He had only a small bundle. Turned out he was riding the rails and the train had stopped, he was found out and thrown off. I gave him a ride to the nearest town (about 50 miles), and what food I had in the car. He was quite grateful. Guess I was lucky, but I sure hate to think what might come of the guy had I not picked him up.
 
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Alligatorob said:
I have given people rides who were in need and seemed safe. Never regretted it.

The one that made me most nervous was a guy hitchhiking on Highway 30 near the Nevada/Utah border. Anyone who has driven that road knows how desolate the area is, desert no water, no plants, nothing. Only a car every hour or so, sometimes less.

The guy looked pretty rough, but I knew no one could make it out there without help. He had only a small bundle. Turned out he was riding the rails and the train had stopped, he was found out and thrown off. I gave him a ride to the nearest town, and what food I had in the car. He was quite grateful. Guess I was lucky, but I sure hate to think what might come of the guy had I not picked him up.
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I was just talking with @FastTrax about "railroady" stuff and here you are, helping someone out who had just been thrown off a train. That was good of you. :) ā™„
 
Alligatorob said:
I have given people rides who were in need and seemed safe. Never regretted it.

The one that made me most nervous was a guy hitchhiking on Highway 30 near the Nevada/Utah border. Anyone who has driven that road knows how desolate the area is, desert no water, no trees, nothing. Only a car every hour or so, sometimes less.

The guy looked pretty rough, but I knew no one could make it out there without help. He had only a small bundle. Turned out he was riding the rails and the train had stopped, he was found out and thrown off. I gave him a ride to the nearest town (about 50 miles), and what food I had in the car. He was quite grateful. Guess I was lucky, but I sure hate to think what might come of the guy had I not picked him up.
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Love that. But, when I traveled alone between San Diego and Fairbanks Alaska, I didn't pick up anyone except a guy out of gas.
I was pretty protective of myself just because I was a woman traveling alone. I wasn't scared but also not stupid.
 
Gaer said:
I was pretty protective of myself just because I was a woman traveling alone. I wasn't scared but also not stupid.
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I know its a hard line to walk. Women probably have a bit more to fear than men, but we all have to weigh our decisions.

Another time I was driving in traffic in Baltimore and saw a girl hitchhiking. I stopped to pick her up and it turned out she was soliciting. She really looked bad to me, shaking and unhealthy. She offered her services for just $20. I gave her the $20, but declined the service. Maybe I was taken in, but it seemed the right thing to do at the time. Not sure she was appreciative, but she did seem surprised.

Makes me think of Aileen Wuornos, but not at the time...
 
I've offered a lift to people, who were very grateful. One was a young woman who was walking in a sleet storm at night. Another time, an older woman was obviously stuck in a downpour when the movies were let out - it was evening. Hubs and I gave her our names, address, phone number and license plate number, so
that her son could check us out if he wished. This was before there were cellphones.
 
Now days I personally would not stop and offer ride etc to anyone........ I watched too many true crime or dateline type shows.
I feel bad .........as some may be completely fine but so many things come to mind...... both for the person on side of road and as driver being left for dead or something.
it is a sad sick world
 
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Jeni said:
Now days I personally would not stop and offer ride etc to anyone........ I watched too many true crime or dateline type shows.
I feel bad .........as some may be completely fine but so many things come to mind...... both fro the person on side of road and as driver being left for dead or something.
it is a sad sick world
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It is sad that we have to be wary of helping each other.
 
Alligatorob said:
I have given people rides who were in need and seemed safe. Never regretted it.

The one that made me most nervous was a guy hitchhiking on Highway 30 near the Nevada/Utah border. Anyone who has driven that road knows how desolate the area is, desert no water, no trees, nothing. Only a car every hour or so, sometimes less.

The guy looked pretty rough, but I knew no one could make it out there without help. He had only a small bundle. Turned out he was riding the rails and the train had stopped, he was found out and thrown off. I gave him a ride to the nearest town (about 50 miles), and what food I had in the car. He was quite grateful. Guess I was lucky, but I sure hate to think what might come of the guy had I not picked him up.
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I'm not much up on the Western rail corridors however the only Intercity passenger railroad would be the AMTRAK California Zephyr Service which has trackage rights on the Union Pacific Central Corridor. It's practically impossible for anybody to board an AMTRAK train with the assistant conductors at each access door. The conductor handles the paperwork and only detrains if a notable person is boarding and he would be made aware of that by the miserable and more so jealous crew dispatchers at the initial reporting terminal. AMTRAK also has a policy that any person that they feel needs to be detrained It will not under any circumstances stop in between stations unless said person presented a direct and immediate threat to the passengers, hours of service personnel and operating department crews. Usually the onboard staff notifies the engineer who notifies the dispatcher who makes the proper notifications to management and the required public safety departments. The AMTRAK California Zephyr train enters the UP Central Corridor at Winnemucca, Nevada and leaves the corridor at Ruby Canyon, Utah.

The Union Pacific Railroads Central Corridor which is it's equivalent to the BNSF Southern and Northern Transcon trains are well known for the new tech hobos who are well off extreme railfans riding on these massive 1.5 mile double stack trains. They actually have YouTube accounts rife with GoPro videos of their escapades. Numerous railroad investigators have tracked them down and arrested them but at best the charges are common trespass. The Utah Railroad now acquired by the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad which also have trackage rights on the UP Central Corridor were more than likely to have ejected him.
 
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FastTrax said:
I'm not much up on the Western rail corridors however the only Intercity passenger railroad would be the AMTRAK California Zephyr Service which has trackage rights on the Union Pacific Central Corridor. It's practically impossible for anybody to board an AMTRAK train with the assistant conductors at each access door. The conductor handles the paperwork and only detrains if a notable person is boarding and he would be made aware of that by the miserable and more so jealous crew dispatchers at the initial reporting terminal. AMTRAK also has a policy that any person that they feel needs to be detrained will not under any circumstances stop in between stations unless said person presented a direct and immediate threat to the passengers, hours of service personnel and operating department crews. Usually the onboard staff notifies the engineer who notifies the dispatcher who makes the proper notifications to management and the required public safety departments. The AMTRAK California Zephyr train enters the UP Central Corridor at Winnemucca, Nevada and leaves the corridor at Ruby Canyon, Utah.

The Union Pacific Railroads Central Corridor which is it's equivalent to the BNSF Southern and Northern Transcon trains are well known for the new tech hobos who are well off extreme railfans riding on these massive 1.5 mile double stack trains. They actually have YouTube accounts rife with GoPro videos of their escapades. Numerous railroad investigators have tracked them down and arrested them but at best the charges are common trespass. The Utah Railroad now acquired by the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad were more than likely to have ejected him.
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Well, that was interesting and informative. :)
 
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