This morning while driving I saw a man walking along the side of the rode. He gave me the "thumbs up" sign and I stopped. I have never stopped before for someone asking for a ride. I have on previous occasions offered and given rides to people that were walking in the rain or snow, but never for someone that asked. I can't exactly figure out why I stopped but in those 2 or 3 seconds I made the decision that I should give this guy a chance. The second I started to brake, he started running and slowly he made up the couple hundred yards that had passed in those almost instantaneous three seconds.
He was a nice guy, rough, dirty and reeked of alcohol. He told me his name but I honestly can't remember. he was one of those people that will tell you their whole life. And he did. I like those kind of people, they seem honest and sincere although not completely. He told me that he was getting married today at three and was on his way back from the bachelor party. He said things had gotten bad at the bar and he wasn't one for going to jail so he left and "started heal-toeing it." He said he had been walking for almost two hours. I am not completely sure about where he was going and if it even deserved a ride. I originally thought the girl that he was going to go see the one he described as a **** was his fiancée but now as I replay the conversation I am not so sure. No I am sure, it wasn't. He described his wife-to-be as nice and pretty. He said something about doing everything he could before he makes "his vows before God." We talked about how what goes around comes around but in the good since; in the thanks for a ride you'll get paid back for it one day sense. Which reminded me the second he walked up to the window he started offering me money but never mentioned it when he was getting out, this is fine I would not have taken his money. However I do find it interesting that he now in retrospect said whatever he needed to talk his way in the car. Originally when I asked him where he was going he said "where ever you are." Now don't get me wrong but I don't trust this man or any other stranger enough to let him in on where I am going or coming from let alone where I live so when I said something like "No, where are you going?" know that it wasn't completely because I was being nice.
I wish him well in the 6 minute 2.2 miles of his journey that I drove him i saved him about 40 minutes of walking.
To his wife, I was you to the best ... I feel no remorse for helping him on his walk because I truly believe that he won't if even ends up "doing everything he can" today he won't break his "vows before God" after you are married. Secondly, if you don't know what you had coming when you agreed to marry this man you are an idiot because I would then know more about him in 6 minutes as a complete stranger than you know about your husband in t-8 hours.
