WTH?
Some people are way too far on the weird side of stupid. I live out in the desert in a very rural area, so when three young teenagers flag me down on the road, a mile from the nearest house, no car in sight, early in the afternoon, I was wondering where they heck they'd come from. No bikes, no backpacks, no water, no drinks of any kind -- in the desert in summer... and no phone, either, as it turns out.
I let them call someone on my phone, and offered to drop them off at our community convenience store, where at least they could wait in air conditioning. (I figured with three of them, we should all be safe from accusations of impropriety; sad that has to be a consideration these days.)
Barely get started moving and a call comes in on my phone, we need to turn around and backtrack a few miles, the other girl is back that way... in an SUV full of kids with, it turns out, the young mother of the girl who'd borrowed my phone at the wheel. Said girl gets out, gets in the SUV without saying much, too busy crying because she knows she's in trouble -- but the other two adamantly refusing to change vehicles. Okay....
And the mother? Doesn't say a word to me. No thanks for helping my child, who was out in the desert utterly unprepared. No concern for the other two kids, who are supposedly her daughter's friends, and are in a car with a total stranger. Not even a hello. Just, nothing. Collects her kid and drives away. WTH?
Mind you, we're within 5 miles of a major "smuggler's highway," used for Mexican drug and human smuggling -- to the point the state land ~8 miles to the south has signs saying it's not safe, stay out of the area. And she says nothing?
I ended up driving the other pair of kids to one of their homes about 8 miles away. But I still wonder who ditched them out there with no water and no phone. And if they're smart enough not to get caught in that situation again. Sadly, I'm not too sure about that. :/