Learn from my Mom!
A little while ago, my mom had a little adventure, that needs to be shared. Everyone needs to take heed from my mother's tale, for your own life!
My mom was leaving her work one afternoon, when the car in front of her ran out of gas. My mom, trying to be a good samaritan, helped the poor guy, even though he did look a little sketchy, she didn't want to be "that person" who judges people. She took him to a gas station down the road so that he could get enough gas to put in his car so he could drive to the gas station himself. The guy had a milk jug to hold the gas. My mom told the guy that he couldn't put the gas in that container because it wasn't a proper receptacle, that he could go in the station and ask the attendants if he could borrow something to hold the gas. Instead, he picked up a bottle of washer fluid, dumped it in the bathroom, then left the building to put gas in it. At this point the cops were called, because the attendants saw this happen. Then the guy asked my mom for some money because he didn't have his wallet on him to get the gas. So she gave him a $1 to get enough gas to take back to his car. He went back into the station, gave them the dollar, put gas in the windshield wiper fluid container, and my mom left with him to go back to his car.
As they are driving off, here comes the cops. The guy told my mom she has done nothing wrong, and to not pull over. However, my mom decided against running from the cops and pulled into the road that goes into the Holiday Inn up there on South Main. The cop comes up to my mom's window and asks for her ID and the guy's ID. Here my mom is thinking they got pulled over for putting gas in the wrong receptacle. She didn't know the guy had stolen the wiper fluid. When the guy gave the cop his ID, from the Indiana State Penitentiary, the cop asked him to step out of the car. My mom explains what happened, and more cops go chasing up to the car the guy had. The next thing my mom knows is the guy is being thrown on the hood of her car and being handcuffed. My mom tells the cop that she'll pay for the windshield wiper fluid, how much could it be!? The cop tells her it has gone way beyond the windshield wiper fluid now.
The guy was an escaped inmate of the Indiana State Penitentiary. He had stolen the car that ran out of gas, had a knife on him, and the tear drop tattoo next to his eye indicated that he had killed someone. WHOA!
Not to mention if the guy had just listened to my mom and asked for a proper receptacle to put the gas in, he would have never been caught. (Well, at least not at that point)
So, as sad as it is to say, don't help any random person who breaks down in front of you! If needed, call someone for them, and then go on your way.
~Taylor~