When our car broke down in a rural region at two in the morning, my wife and I were on our way back from a party. We waited until a college student offered to drive us to town because we didn’t have any cell phones. He said, “Happy to help,” when we tried to pay him. My wife phoned me crying years later.
telling me to look at the news. In reality, the “student” was a 35-year-old wanted criminal who had targeted late-night truckers and robbed over 30 people in isolated locations.When I realized how near we were to danger, I got chills.
Maybe there were two of us, or I looked scary, and he spared us. We were really fortunate to escape that night unscathed, regardless of the cause.