Sometimes I get into the strangest situations

[iCe]

Ok... so last night I get to the Cameron Ferry earlier than I thought I would and my GPS says home by 12:30 am. It's about a 15 minute wait but the load is light and it didn't take long to get back across and unload. I was going to stop back in Cameron for fuel and to pee but the little Shell station was packed (crews from the rigs coming in) so I kept going. Needless to say I had to pee pretty bad by the time the ferry started moving. Once we landed I drove about 4 miles past the ferry landing and found a place to pull over. The car behind me went by and I noticed a car coming the other direction very slowly. It kind of rolls to a stop directly opposite of me. I'm thinking "wtf?" and not really liking the idea that someone would stop, on a dark night, on a skinny little road in the middle of nowhere... at the same place I am stopping. I rolled the window down to see what they wanted (immediately thought- "great, now they know it's just me"). After a minute or so a gal gets out and wobbles toward my truck yelling "can you help me!" I'm thinking, "Oh Lord... what have I gotten into now?". I tell her yeah... I guess... what's wrong? She comes around to the passenger side so I let her in. Then she says "wait, I need to get my beer. Want one?". and scurries back to the car, puts the flashers on, and gets her beer. Uh... no... now I'm looking for the dudes that surely must be there with her to carjack me or extort money from me... Never happened. She had run out of gas on the way to pick her husband up. He was waiting back in Cameron (turns out he had been waiting for about 2 hours). So... I took her back across the ferry to Cameron (the ferry guy was looking at me like dude... you drive off into the swamp and come back with a chick??? WTF??? ) We go to the Shell... she's babbling away the whole time. She didn't stop talking bad about her husband the whole way. When we got to the stairs going up to the store I turned up the stairs so I could go to the bathroom and she stopped and started talking to some guy... it was her husband. He's looking at me like- what are you doing with my wife? I was not bothered. There were more pressing issues than a jealous husband. I introduce myself and left for the bathroom. When I came out, they were loading his stuff in my truck, neither had any money... so I got to buy a 5 gallon gas can, fill it up, and take them back to the car. I waited for them to get rolling and took off. I got home at 2:30am this morning.

That's how I roll

[Truckman]

Sounds like a fun trip...So, did you bring back any pictures?......Ben

[iCe]

Originally Posted by Truckman

Sounds like a fun trip...So, did you bring back any pictures?......Ben

It was

Is a pigs posterior pork? They are scattered around the General forum and one in Wildlife...

[HeatherLou]

You do lead an interesting life, I will say that :)

[Lexie]

Like I've said before, your work is more of an adventure than work!

[ngoduyviet]

LOL You do lead an interesting life and I hope you were loaded I'd be too damn scared to get any stranger in my car be it a lady or not in the middle of nowhere.

[corralup]

Wow, Michael be careful out there you never know what kind of games people play.
One time I helped someone for a ride and got mugged. I know this was different but you never know.
I don't give rides anymore. I want to help people stranded but being what I went through Nope no more.
Glad your ok. Sounds like its pretty crazy right now with the evacuations. I've been pretty worried about this storm. I'll probably have to start delivering to the refineries again down there. I remember what Katrina did to Belle Chase, New Orleans, Cameron, Port Fourchon and Venice. I'm glad the buses are getting everyone to a safe haven.
How was I-10 in Columbus? We thought about going to the property this weekend but being the highways are packed I'm here at the house staying safe.

[iCe]

Sandy- I'm west of Columbus (Weimar). I haven't been to town this morning but I suspect that the westbound lanes are pretty busy. Yesterday eastbound was full of buses.

I'm generally pretty careful. She didn't look to hazardous and if someone else would have appeared I still had the transmission in Drive and ready to drive away if I had to.

[ldelacruz]

Great job Michael!

I would have done the same. Helped the girl and transmission in drive.

[Steelsun]

Good Samaritan Points

[iCe]

Yeah... that's kind of how I look at it... help people when you can and when it doesn't place you in harms way (we owe it to our families to protect ourselves). Call it Karma, good Christian ethic, or whatever... but what goes around comes around... no doubt about that.