Protecting Yourself While Driving
What should I do if a stranger offers to help when my car is disabled?
You're on the road and you get a flat tire and you're a woman and you get a flat tire and you pull over. Once you get out of the car especially if you are real attractive you could have five guys pulling off the road to help you, you know, in no time. What do you do in that kind of situation? Where it appears this is a good samaritan but I got to tell you there's all kinds of stories about predators out there patrolling the highways when they see that opportunity and that's what it is is a golden opportunity in their mind. And they'll pull right over to try to get you in the car, and take you to a phone, take you to the service station, anything, to get you in that car. What do you do? How do you know whether it's legitimate to get into the car or not? I'll tell you what I tell my wife and everybody else. I buy her a subscription to a road service where all she has to do is call and get Triple AAA or some road service to come and change her tire. Thank the person very much for stopping and tell them that I've already called the police, "The police are on the way", or "My husband's on the way", whatever you're going to say. Again just to break that tension, to remove that opportunity, and you'll be better off for it. But that goes back to planning. If you didn't plan ahead, you didn't have that road service coverage, you didn't carry your cell phone, you'll be isolated, you'll be stuck, and you'll really be a victim of poor planning: Poor planning makes poor judgements.
