Total stranger saved my day today!

Holly Hocks

Holly Hocks

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Well it started snowing here about lunchtime and I went to get my horses in about 2pm. It was too early to feed, so I decided to go back about 5pm. I set off and my car which is rubbish in snow (Honda Civic for anyone interested - the old type!) decided that it couldn't get up a long hill past the hospital. In all fairness it wasn't just me - there were loads of cars at varying angles in the road - and if it hadn't been for the one person at the top of the hill that decided to brake we would all have got up. So I decided to turn round and park at B&Q and walk to the yard (would have taken about 30 minutes). As I was turning the car round to go back down the hill, a man (good looking as well) coming the oppositee way, wound his window down and said that he would go to B&Q and get a tow rope to tow me to the top of the hill. So I agreed, and he went to buy the tow rope only to find out that my car doesn't have a tow bracket (doh!). So he offered to take me to the yard. Now I know you shouldn't accept lifts from strangers, but when they're good looking, late 20s and can coherently string a sentence together I was willing to take my chances. So this totally unknown stranger gave me a lift to my horses, complete with a bucket full of warm garlic smelling horse feed ( I took it home earlier to soak it).
I don't know his name - all I know is that he had dark hair, glasses, drove a Mitsubishi pick up type vehicle and lives in Kirkby Stephen and I think he drives HGVs for a living, but not sure. The worst part of it was that I skip out during the week and do the big muck out at weekend - which I did this morning. I hadn't had a shower and was carrying warm garlic horse feed.....the smell must have been irresistible. There are kind people in the world still.
The car goes on ebay tomorrow......
 
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Snowy conditions really do make it beneficial to be female! I know its not PC and some women really dislike the 'Damsel in distress' role. But I don't. I DO enjoy having my car pushed out of ditches / up hills / moved for me though :D
 
holzrokz said:
ah the kindness of good looking strangers :p

But the real question is, did you get his number? :D
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Ah no - I am otherwise attached as was he....but if I weren't, then I'm sure I would have - it's hard to be flirty as well when wearing week old jeans and a multicoloured stripey hat, no make-up and stinking....
 
Holly Hocks said:
Now I know you shouldn't accept lifts from strangers, but when they're good looking, late 20s and can coherently string a sentence together I was willing to take my chances. So this totally unknown stranger gave me a lift to my horses, complete with a bucket full of warm garlic smelling horse feed ( I took it home earlier to soak it).
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Love it!!!

And at least his significant other won't have to comment about the scent of alluring perfume left in his car... :D
 
mnmnm said:
But you managed to find out he was attached LOL ;-)

How do you find these handsome knights in shining armour ??
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Ah yes, he mentioned that he was going to collect his girlfriend from work later on as he didn't want her driving home in the weather conditions (not only good looking, but caring and considerate too!!) and I'd mentioned that my OH was working til 9pm otherwise he would have come and rescued me!
 
as a mummy to an 11 yr old and a 5 yr old, i think it gives me the right to act all mummyfied and tell you off!! Even good looking , well spoken hunks can be rapists or robbers!! Naughty girl!! :mad:

There told you off!!
 
When I needed to get to the horses last year and couldn't get the Clio up my road, a random stranger gave me a lift the 10 miles to the yard. Was very very grateful....

Today my other half drove to my yard at lunchtime (12 miles) to bring me my phone as I'd left it in my car and he didn't want me driving home in the dark and snow without it....
 
Aw well if i get stuck tomorrow-have to get out first, i hope i have your luck!! My OH is currently in a sling with broken collarbone so can't be my usual snow driver in his van which actually moves in snow unlike my car. Bad timing!!
 
Devonshire dumpling said:
as a mummy to an 11 yr old and a 5 yr old, i think it gives me the right to act all mummyfied and tell you off!! Even good looking , well spoken hunks can be rapists or robbers!! Naughty girl!! :mad:

There told you off!!
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Ha ha! Could totally imagine a finger wag going on there to accompany the telling off :D
That'll teach her! ;)
 
Devonshire dumpling said:
YES!!!! and a really disappointed look:(
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Telling off accepted (hangs head in shame)
But if he'd tried anything, I could have slung my bucket of garlickey mash at him..... and if he'd been much closer he would have smelt week old jeans and my non-showered body as well as my seriously unshaved pits and unwaxed winter legs (wow I sound attractive don't I?)
 
A couple years ago I got my car stuck on the run up to a really horrible single track hill :o the wheels were just spinning and I didn't have the guts to just welly it up the hill in case a) someone was coming down and b) I put it in the ditch...

A man came out of his house and just went " here love, jump out, walk to the top and stop anyone coming down" so I did.(desperation and all that, 10 miles from home and at least two miles to walk on unlit, no footpath roads before I could get a mobile signal and a tendency to get lost on a straight road at the best of times!) Two minutes later he arrives up the hill, white faced and jumps out of the car shaking telling me that he hadn't noticed the rottweiler on the back seat until he looked in the mirror - poor guy was terrified of dogs at the best of time, let alone a big chatty one two inches from his head.

I did drop off a bottle of wine on his doorstep a couple of weeks later - once the ice was gone!
 
I fell off Obi during a hack (galloping along a field when a stirrup leather snapped) when I was 14 and he carried on galloping onto the roads.

I started to run after him, a car door opened and a man said, "Get in" and I did so without thinking.

Obi went down the middle of one of the busiest A roads in the area and across a roundabout and carried on to the nearby village
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The man in the car followed him until he went down a side street. I jumped out and caught him and waited for the car to go past - when it did I raised an arm in thanks.

As a 14 year old, getting into a strange man's car was a very silly move but I was hysterical and babbling at the time.

I have no idea who he is or was but he saved my horse's life. 20 years later and I am still grateful.
There are knights in shining armour out there:)
 
I find it so sad that people worry about aceepting lifts from people wo offer to help. I speak as some one who will always stop to offer a lift to someone walking in bad weather. If some one had done that one January night 5 years ago my son's friend might not have died.
 
hairycob said:
I find it so sad that people worry about aceepting lifts from people wo offer to help. I speak as some one who will always stop to offer a lift to someone walking in bad weather. If some one had done that one January night 5 years ago my son's friend might not have died.
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Sorry to hear about your friend's son. I think you're right too. I can understand telling children and teenagers not to get into stranger's cars but I think as an adult you develop an instinct and I know that when i got into that man's car I felt no fear whatsoever - in fact it never crossed my mind that he would be a weirdo - we chatted as if we had already known each other. I'm late 30 sand he was only in his late 20s - I'm sure there were younger, better looking stranded females (who didn't stink and look as if they'd just crawled out of a skip) out there if that was what he'd wanted!
I can be a hard-faced mare at times, but I would never not help someone in need.
 
Holly Hocks said:
Telling off accepted (hangs head in shame)
But if he'd tried anything, I could have slung my bucket of garlickey mash at him..... and if he'd been much closer he would have smelt week old jeans and my non-showered body as well as my seriously unshaved pits and unwaxed winter legs (wow I sound attractive don't I?)
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Ha ha so glad it's not just me doing the "extra layer of thermals" hairy legged thing :rolleyes::D Mind you it's not like I have anyone to complain about my fuzzyness at the moment ha ha! :D
 
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