Times Are Changing

[RSKY]

I did stop a month or so ago to help a couple ladies with four kids in the car. They would have never got it changed by themselves. But I would not have stopped if my wife hadn't been with me. I circled around and came back to them on the divided highway and my wife sat in the car until I made sure everything was on the up and up before she got out.

Our once proud and prosperous county is now overrun by methheads both local and out of state. You cannot be too careful. For example, our mail carrier told of covering for a vacation at a small post office about twenty or thirty miles from our house. One afternoon, on a beautiful day, she closed the office and drove down some roads just looking at the scenery. When she got back to the office the local preacher stopped her and asked her what she was doing and she said sight seeing. He told her to never drive down those roads because there were several meth houses and when high they would take pot shots at anybody driving by.

RSKY

 

[Sigarms]

Just last week 20 teenagers from our church came back from a local youth mission to Asheville.

The reality is the US has always been addicted to some form of drug.

You can find just as much good in our country as you can bad.

The good old days weren't always so good, tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.

 

[GAFarmer2]

You can find just as much good in our country as you can bad.

The good old days weren't always so good, tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.

My grandfather used to say the same thing. He was well known around here for saying, "let them have there good old days, I had a dang nuff!"

 

[CajunRider]

What ever happened to all the friendly folks who used to live in the country? Today, while towing a 20 foot tandem axle trailer loaded with four round hay bales, approx 8,000 lbs, the right rear tire on the trailer came apart. I saw the blue smoke in the mirror and found a safe place to pull off the 35 mph road. The temperature was pushing 100ｰ which may explain why no one stopped to offer to help change the tire, but it sure doesn't explain why roughly 50 cars drove by and no one stopped to even offer to call for assistance. Times sure have changed.

About the only time where I don't stop is when the one known drunk in my neck of the wood try to flag me down for a ride. For him I just roll the window down and yell at him: "Gordon, go home. You don't need more whiskey."

PS: When I first moved to the area years ago, I gave Gordon a ride and my truck stank afterward. I had to use a box of baking soda on the passenger seat and seat belt trying to get rid of the smell.

 

[NoTrespassing]

A few years ago a couple of men I know stopped to help a woman with car trouble that had the hood up on her car. As they were looking under the hood, a couple guys jumped out from behind a building and beat them and stole their wallets. All three of them drove away in the car the was "broken down".

If I see someone who is having trouble I will stop and ask if they want me to call someone, but that's all I will do.

Kevin

 

[CajunRider]

A few years ago a couple of men I know stopped to help a woman with car trouble that had the hood up on her car. As they were looking under the hood, a couple guys jumped out from behind a building and beat them and stole their wallets. All three of them drove away in the car the was "broken down".

If I see someone who is having trouble I will stop and ask if they want me to call someone, but that's all I will do.

Kevin

When I'm in a strange area, I will call for help but will take precaution. However, if I see an accident happening at the time it happens, I will always stop. I know it's a risk but oh well.

 

[Sigarms]

My grandfather used to say the same thing. He was well known around here for saying, "let them have there good old days, I had a dang nuff!"

Sincerely nice to know someone from a past generation agrees with me.

I remember when my mom told me her mother thought the country was going to heck when she first saw Elvis on TV.

I think every past generation thinks the new generation is going to heck in a handbasket LOL

 

[RobertN]

I don't stop to help.

Some years back, a cousin of mine stopped to help a couple folks with a broken down van.

He woke from a coma a few weeks later. Spent more weeks in ICU. And then months recovering.

The folks from the van beat the tar out of him till near death. They stole his wallet, money, and car. Someone finally called in after seeing him lying near the road.

I'll stop if I witness an accident. But that is about it.

 

[tjkubota93]

Haha amen.

Or that had enough money to move where they is "cool"

Oops that was poorly written.

How about: Or people that had barely enough money to move somewhere that they think is cool (b/c more property is what successful people get). Even though they don't have the skill or money to keep it up.

I am very leery about stopping to help. Like others said, a woman with a "broke" car could just be bait for her boyfriend to hit you in the back of the head or pull a gun on you. Or her cousins, isn't that what daisy duke would do?

 

[oosik]

Just yesterday I filled up at the local gas station. There were two young adults (boy & girl) trying to catch a ride west to Seattle. I told them I could get them about 50 mile in that direction. They threw their knap sacks in the back of the pickup and hopped in. About ten miles down the road, one pulls out a pipe and without even asking - lights up his marijuana. End of the trip for them. I don't care that its legal in the state of WA. Not in my vehicle.