Broked down car and assholes
My car just broke down while I was 16 km out of town. Things I learned :
1- Humans are assholes when it is dark outside
2- People are pricks in general
3- Get a pre paid cell phone for when shit happens
4- have a change of warm sweats to wear, pack water and a couple goodies of food
5-People are assholes
6- Do not have your car break down
Four cars went past me while I was on a side road with a blanket wrapped around my well dressed self, I shined my flashlight with a smile waving as though needing help, three just drove past me. After the third I said fuck it and walked in the middle of the road so the fourth would have to stop, I asked for a ride up the road ( any distance, willing to pay 20 dollars for five minutes of their time) and the dumb prick said NO sternly and drove off. Fuck you human scum. All the while hundreds of vehicles passed me on the high way while I walk with a blanket over me and a flash light tide to my wrist.
I understand "you cant be to careful" but I really do not understand how people can be so shitty.
/vent
1- Humans are assholes when it is dark outside
2- People are pricks in general
3- Get a pre paid cell phone for when shit happens
4- have a change of warm sweats to wear, pack water and a couple goodies of food
5-People are assholes
6- Do not have your car break down
Four cars went past me while I was on a side road with a blanket wrapped around my well dressed self, I shined my flashlight with a smile waving as though needing help, three just drove past me. After the third I said fuck it and walked in the middle of the road so the fourth would have to stop, I asked for a ride up the road ( any distance, willing to pay 20 dollars for five minutes of their time) and the dumb prick said NO sternly and drove off. Fuck you human scum. All the while hundreds of vehicles passed me on the high way while I walk with a blanket over me and a flash light tide to my wrist.
I understand "you cant be to careful" but I really do not understand how people can be so shitty.
/vent
13 Comments
BoneRemake7-tow trucks are not as expensive as you think they might be
8-tow truck dispatchers have a great sense of humour
9-Rcmp help desk is not very helpful and fairly condescending when asking questions about legality of broken down vehicles.
dystopianfuturetodayTriple A is great for situations like that. A lot of people are afraid to let strangers into their cars after dark.
BoneRemake>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Triple A is great for situations like that. A lot of people are afraid to let strangers into their cars after dark.
I have never had a vehicle break down in my 15 years of driving. I have had to tow a car because someone decided it was time I drove into their car, but never have I had a fuel pump shit out on me. AMA (Alberta motor association) is not worth the money in my mind, a cell phone is the course I will take from now on. I understood that mentality DFT when I was the one in the cab looking at the sucker with the thumb out, but being on the other side of the glass changed that view. I came to the conclusion while walking that distance that " if no one helps me when I need help, if people can turn a blind eye for fear of what the Internets and other radical thinking bullshit they construed in their heads... next time I am in a position to help I will "
It really kicks you in the nuts when someone pretty well tells you to fuck off when you need help. My balls are black and blue.
I started to come up with a plan for a vest the has led's on it that flashes " help " while you are walking along the side of the road to alert others you are in need and that it signals you are there. But at the and of my journey today I figured I would make the vest with LED's and have it say " fuck off, keep driving " all the while letting others know you are on the shoulder walking.
:-)
direpickleThe last time I gave a ride to a stranger he tried to rob me. Sorry you have to pay for others' shittiness!
KreegathI would never allow a stranger into my car, and while it's terrible that a situation can arise where you can't lend a helping hand to a stranger in need in fear for your own safety, that's the reality for most of us. If someone had their car break down and asked me for help, the least (and incidentally the most) I would do is help arrange for a tow truck. If you did stop, offer a lift and get robbed, everyone would say that you have nobody to blame but yourself, that it's common sense not to pick up strangers on the road at night. Hitchhiker criminals have ruined it for everyone.
BoneRemakeWhat has honestly changed though in say 40 years ? is it statistical that people on the side of the road will rob you or harm you ?
I do not understand how there is an influx of this behavior, if so what is it based on ? the population growth ? crime rate going up ? the internet and television plastering horror stories over the waves ? I do not get how lately everyone has this mentality that "if they stop they will be killed "
I blame the media.
KreegathI don't think it's so much an actual increase in statistical probability of being robbed as it is a shift in the attitude towards strangers in general. The perception of someone unknown has turned into a source of potential danger, so regardless if the roadside has become either more safe or less, the social paradigm tells us to not trust in strangers
direpickle>> ^direpickle:
The last time I gave a ride to a stranger he tried to rob me. Sorry you have to pay for others' shittiness!
Actually, I forgot, that's not totally true. I gave an old lady a ride subsequent to that. I was pretty sure--but not POSITIVE--that she wasn't going to try to pull something.
BoneRemake@direpickle
Same thing happened to me almost a year ago. In the summer a woman of great age was walking the sidewalk as I went into my car to get some bread from the local bakery, she scratched out " will you give me a ride to the ***** pharmacy "
I could not come up with a decent answer for no, and likewise I did not think a grandma who was grasping for breath and had 1.3 miles left to walk would offer me any grievance. I gave her a ride to the pharmacy so she could pick up her medicine and I drove her home ( which was quite far away for her,not the car)
I still feel great about that, but I guess it boiled down to the threat level. She may of been crazy, but I could stop and get out and call the cops if that happened.
Oh and she would not let me leave without giving me 6 dollars, which I tried to refuse profusely but accepted it as I did not want to offend. I think she was german or some such accent.
marinarapeople are conditioned by what they know is normal.
before cell phones, people would know you're in trouble, and help you out.
now they won't help you because they are afraid of anyone without a cell phone.
Just be glad you weren't in their way. they would have run you over.
longdeI have been on both sides. I do not blame people for being leery of people on the road, that's just being street smart. I think the best thing to do in that situation is to start walking; and give people options to help you resolve the situation (e.g., call for a tow vs. giving you a lift).
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