...but never had the drive to try. I offered a ride to someone who was just walking around my neighborhood. I think the thing the drew me to actually putting forth the effort to actually ask the person if they needed a lift was that it was a young African American boy (looked between 5 and 8 years old). He had no one else with him and no shoes on, so when I saw him just walking alongside Allen Park Elementary I got this feeling like "how far must he have to walk?", "is he lost", "did he get left behind". So after driving past him the first time, I was about to turn left onto 41 to go to work, when I decided to go back and help him. I passed by one more time before I finally managed to pull myself to help him. I had this thing in the back of my mind telling me it won't work because I'm a stranger and not want to ride with me (like how parents tell their kids not to trust strangers), someone will see me doing this that knows him and think I'm some kidnapper, etc. Also by the 2nd time I had passed him I think he saw eye to eye with me, so I dunno what kind of impression he had of me. None the less I pulled up next to him and asked him if he was headed home. He told me "yes", so I asked him if he would like a ride home, because I didn't want him to have to walk all that way. He said, "no I'm fine" and from that I said "oh, alright I just thought I'd see if you needed one". I also added in something I shouldn't have, probably made me sound weird, but I said "oh I understand you probably don't wanna get rides from a stranger, I understand, see ya".
I dunno why I said the last part, but whenever something I try to do doesn't work, I have this natural tendency to slip/mention why I think it didn't work. Some of you who know me well probably notice this, that I always like explanations of everything.
Anyways it was an interesting experience, and I think though from now on if I see people walking along my nieghborhood, mainly students who have to walk home like I do/did the past 4 years, I'm going to offer them rides to wherever they live.
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