Temp: -5F, windchill: -18, walk: 25 minutes

[auntiemeesh]

Dear Stranger Friend,

Thank you for stopping and offering a ride to a complete stranger this morning. Even in a nice neighborhood, with someone who looks harmless, it's still a risk, and you were willing to take that risk. My fingers, nose and toes, none of which have frozen and fallen off, thank you. I hope that if you are ever in the same sort of need, someone as kind as you will do the same.

Sincerely,
Me

Comments

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I love people.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Once in a while, people just are good. :)

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it turned out to be safe to accept that ride!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

A woman in her mid-twenties, decent car, decent neighborhood. Yeah, she could have been a strange psycho killer, but then, the alternative wasn't all that great and she really didn't look scary.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I'd feel safer with a woman too. I notice I'm not the only one to go a bit into worry mode upon see the words "stranger" and "ride" in the same post. It's pretty sad that we have to be socialized to be fearful of kindness!

[shirebound]

Awwwww. :)

That's COLD.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's just about as cold as it gets in Pittsburgh. It's supposed to warm up now, however, so hopefully we're all done with subzero temperatures for this year.

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it turned out to be safe. This sort of thing happened to me once as well - on a very cold and rainy night on the dark fast track lane... the only time I walked home from work - , but I was too afraid although the guy seemed trustworthy enough. I felt it was foolish to walk in the first place but to get into a stranger's car would make me even more foolish.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

If I'd been in a different neighborhood, or the person offering hadn't been a well-presented, twenty-something woman, I'd probably have responded differently, but luckily all the stars were in alignment and I didn't have to walk. :)

[lyda-pearl.livejournal.com]

nice people rock as WMW likes to say.