Posted by Susan J on October 22, 2003, at 10:00:06
In reply to Did something stupid last night..., posted by Penny on October 22, 2003, at 8:48:00
Hiya, Penny,
Please don't be too harsh on yourself for that. Afterall, everything turned out just fine. :-) And I think it's great you have an innate desire to help people! I've passed people before, dying to help them out because if it were me, I'd want some help! But then I'm always afraid I'll get killed or something. That's why I love my car phone so much. I just call the cops and tell them about whomever is broken down on the side of the road.
But I digress. When I worked in Baltimore, it was a very common scheme for someone to come up to you with a story about his/her car breaking down, or losing all their money and not having enough to take the MARC train back to DC, or whatever. It's usually a fairly involved story so it *sounds* more believable. He might have been trying to hit you up for some money, but wasn't very good at it. Might be why he was surprised, and probably didn't know what to do, when you offered him a ride.
I agree with the other poster, I don't *get* why he cared so much about having his car at the hospital. If I were his wife, he'd hear about *that* later after he missed the birth of our child. I don't care *what* number kid it was or how many times he's been through it. :-)
Susan
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