Midnight. Countryside. Car apparently broken down. Lady waves. Do you stop?

Into The Blue wrote: »

2 weeks from due? Where was her partner?

Where should he have been? I'm due to have a baby in two weeks and I go out of the house without my husband all the time. Maybe her partner was at work and she didn't want to call him and ask him to come help her as he'd need the time off very shortly when she was actually having the baby?

There was a man running in the middle of the road in his underpants just outside Killimor Co Galway last thursday evening, two other men were nestled in the hedgerow watching. They're looked to be traveller in origin, potential hijack attempt maybe?

Smidge wrote: »

Had a friend who was two weeks away from her due date, very heavily pregnant and her car broke down.

She pulled off to the side of the road which had cars passing regularly. Bonnet was up etc.

Not a single person stopped for her.
She had to wait for two hours until her sister could get off work to pick her up.

What was the "etc", was she out by the car waving for help and obviously heavily pregnant? I would be amazed if nobody stopped if they could clearly see that.

If the bonnet was up and she was in the car then it would not surprise me at all if nobody stopped. If I see a car with a bonnet up and the person sitting behind the wheel I would presume help is on the way, I often see cars pulled up and people on the phone.

I helped push a car into the side of the road just this week, a guy was pushing and I got off my bike to help, she confirmed she was ringing someone so all was grand.

The gender would not make a difference, I helped push a car in dublin city centre with a lad driving who did not even ask for help, I saw the car stuttering along and stopping asked if he needed a push, he was delighted.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

There was a man running in the middle of the road in his underpants just outside Killimor Co Galway last thursday evening, two other men were nestled in the hedgerow watching. They're looked to be traveller in origin, potential hijack attempt maybe?

it was the best run I ve had after work in ages!!
Oh and the guys in the hedge are in charge of the stop watch!!!

blackcard wrote: »

You are driving your car on a quiet rural road at night. You see a car apparently broken down. A lady, seemingly on her own, waves at you for assistance. Would you stop to help her?
Probably 20 years ago, I would have. Now, I would be asking myself why she didn't contact someone with her mobile phone. Was it a set up? Would you stop to help her?

Pfft no, bitch can fix her own car. I ain't getting stabbed in the dark.

Beep beep, vroom!

Into The Blue wrote: »

Fück that. For our two, at the two weeks to due stage, i was 'on call' so to speak.. No way would i not be in a position not to be within an hour of my wife. You think your husband would leave you on the side of the road for the sake of a half day force majeure? Don't think so.

Not everyone's partner works close by. Not everyone has a partner.

I picked up a couple of students hitch hiking outside Sligo today, a guy and a girl. They were going from Derry to Galway. They were delighted to get the lift, the way I was going was only another 5 miles out the road, but I wasn't in any rush home, so I brought them as far as Tubbercurry, which is a decent enough size town and they'd have a chance of getting another lift, it was only 15 minutes out of the way for me.

If anything happened to me ( highly unlikely) , they could have been identified from all the dog hair on the seats of my car.