Quote Originally Posted by GatzBurst
I would not have wanted my daughter to take a ride from a stranger like she did, but sometimes you gotta do what u gotta do.
You've got that right. You do sometimes have to do what you've gotta do, even when it's risky. When I was eight and a half months pregnant with my son, I had a tire blow out on LBJ freeway, a huge Dallas 6-lane freeway, one night after dark on my way home. That was 20 years ago, long before cell phones were routine. I was too pregnant to change the tire myself, and traffic was still so heavy that to even attempt it would have been dangerous anyway. I looked for a police car but none of them passed. Fairly quickly, a guy in a truck pulled over and offered to give me a ride to a service station, where I called my husband and waited for him to come get me. My husband didn't like that I'd accepted a ride from a stranger, but there really wasn't any other alternative in that situation. Luckily, the guy who stopped wasn't a criminal. He was just a very nice sort of fatherly type.