On A Road Trip All Alone, A Man At A Gas Station Nearly Put Her In A Bad Situation, But Then A Kind Stranger Stepped In
I like to think that if I’m lost while driving and pull into a gas station to ask a resident for directions, I will get a legitimate answer. However, one woman’s story proves that isn’t always the case.
In 2010, she was making the super long drive from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Eugene, Oregon. She was all by herself, except for her two-year-old pit bull.
She was driving with him and her belongings in a U-Haul truck. Smartphones weren’t as popular or accessible then, so she only had a flip phone and was using printed driving instructions to get her to her destination.
One night, she was driving along a lonely highway through Texas when she realized that she hadn’t come across a town or exit in miles. Her U-Haul was getting low on gas, so she pulled into a small, eerie town and got gas from a local station.
Once the U-Haul was filled up, she paid at the pump and drove to get back onto the highway. However, for the life of her, she could not figure out how to get back on it.
“I can literally see the highway but can’t get to it,” she recalled. “I return to the gas station to ask for directions.”
She went inside the station to ask the attendant for directions. He was an odd-seeming man who never even lifted his eyes from the magazine he read while speaking to her. He instructed her to go down a certain road for 17 miles to get back onto the highway. Red flag, much?
When she tried to explain to him that it didn’t take her long to get off the highway and into the gas station, he gave her some weird excuse about the local roads that gave her an uneasy feeling. Something definitely wasn’t right about this man’s intentions.
She got into her truck and burst into tears, knowing that her safety could be at risk if she didn’t leave that town as soon as possible.
Drazen – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Thankfully, someone else pulled into the gas station. It was a trustworthy-looking “quintessential Texan man” in a pickup truck, who she approached and asked for directions.
He was a kind man who could sense how worried she was. He finally gave her the specific instructions she needed to get back onto the highway, a path at most 3/4 of a mile long, which many drivers from out of town get wrong.
He looked concerned when she told him what the gas station attendant had told her to do. He took out his local map and showed her that the 17-mile stretch she was told to go down would’ve led her away from the main roads and towards a dead end in the desert.
The Texan man also told her that the kind of people found out in that area were troublemakers, members of a family with a poor reputation. He knew that the gas station clerk was a member of that family.
Luckily, the kind man had her go on her way safely, and she left the situation okay.
“I don’t know if the man from the gas station wanted what was in the back of my U-Haul or what was in the driver’s seat, but thankfully I didn’t have to find out,” she explained.
“Oh, and I learned that sometimes angels look like ruddy-haired Texans with scruffy faces and rusty pickups.”
What do you think could have happened if she hadn’t met that nice man?
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