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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jstaylor62" data-source="post: 1965201" data-attributes="member: 6870">This is why I'm very careful about loaning my phone for somebody to make a call. I let a woman borrow my phone for a call one time so she could call someone for ride. She thanked me and I went on my way. The next night a 3AM, I get call from a guy looking for her. I told her I dont know who she is, that I just let her borrow my phone to make a call for a ride. Then he asks me if I know where she is. I said, "DUDE! Its 3AM and dont know who the f$%k she is or where the f&^k she is!"Another time, on Thanksgiving eve, I saw this woman with a cane standing beside her car with the emergency flashers on. I told her I was not a mechanic, but would do what I could. She said she just needed gas. I said getting gas was in my wheel house and proceed to take her to walmart for a gas can and gas. As we drive back to her car, there is a police car sitting behind it. As I pull up, she says hurry, drive away, I dont have a drivers license or insurance and the tag is from another vehicle. So I ask her what now? She asks if I could just drop her off at her house. Its only a few miles out of my way, so I agree. Then as she is talking to her brother on the phone, he wants a ride back to the car. I try to tell her to tell him that there is no way the police will just let him drive off in the car. So I agree and take the guy back to the car. As we drive up, I see that a tow truck has arrived. I try one more time to explain the flaws of his plan, but he refuses to listen. I let him out and wish luck and drive home.When I was a teenager, I remember that I was aproached by an elderly man at a gas station saying he was lost. I gave him directions, but he seemed confused. I kept slowly explaining to him and he seemed to understand. I look back now and wish I had done more. He was probably suffering from dementia and could have very easily driven off somewhere and gotten into trouble. Every time I see a story for a Silver Alert, I wonder if anyone missed seeing the signs of someone that is suffering from dementia and in danger.I try to help people when I can, because I have been helped before. I'm not a mechanic, but I can jump start and get gas with the best of them. But I'm very careful about the situation and circumstances. I'm very careful about helping people on the highway becuase the Lorenz Murders on I-35 in July, 1978.</blockquote>

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