I really, really, really shouldn't have done that.

[chess]

I just did a very, very stupid thing. But I'm here and still alive, so it's okay. I'm probably going to be in trouble, though. I took a lift home with one of the guys from college. I mean, I've known him for months now (almost a year, in fact), but I've only ever seen him at college, and so I don't know anything about him except from what he's told me; he *seems* a normal, decent kind of guy, but so do all of the people whose cars people get into and are never seen again. It was just because I was too lazy to get the bus.

I didn't get my extra time either, and did run out of time, but I didn't say anything. Mostly because I think I'd got everything down anyway and didn't want to cause a fuss for nothing, but I'm probably going to be in trouble about that too. And if I had've complained about that, I wouldn't have taken a lift home, because everyone would have been gone. And the circumstances weren't the uncreepiest because he did wait back for me a bit because I was on the last row to leave.

Gah, I can be so stupid and naieve sometimes. Thank God that He's looking after me.

Comments

[chess]

A) I'm talking from the POV that I've been taught.

B) My judgement of people as individuals is about as poor as it gets :). And I've been taught very much never to get into a car with someone that isn't a friend I know through (several different channels like church and family connections and my-parents-having-met-them).

C) From the media, via my parents.

D) Because of the vast danger I was obviously putting myself in.

Re:

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

I can't argue with A too much - but I don't think you were putting yourself in much danger.
re B) After about age 13, I think you need to judge for _yourself_ the people that are ok and those that aren't.
re C) Forget the media - they usually blow stuff like that out of proportion. However, they probably are right about not allowing 6 year-olds to get in the car with total strangers.
and re D) I think you're overreacting about the "vast danger."

Lastly, you need to trust people sometimes. No, don't trust them blindly, but I hope you don't even have BLIND trust in your parents or friends...

Vast numbers of people being abducted from getting into the cars of poeple they knew

[passage.livejournal.com]

C) From the media, via my parents.

Well I think there have been ... 2 .. in the last 10 years?

Hmm, none as old as 16 either I don't think.

No, this is just an absurd worry.

Neil