Random Facebook Request — What Would You Do?

Lately, I’ll say within the past 3-5 weeks, I’ve been trying to do something nice for atleast one person everyday. Rather it’s giving a homeless person at the gas station a dollar when they ask for it or paying a random person a compliment, just something to help me slowly transform myself into a more loving individual of human beings in general.
Earlier this week, I noticed a status by a young lady on facebook that read, “Need someone to take me to the bus station.” Without thinking, I responded saying, “I got you.” I really had no intention of taking this woman anywhere. First off, it was on my Michigan Undresser page, so I didn’t know this woman at all. All of her statuses were basically about her “boyfriend”, who she seems to be obsessed with (I can’t wait to see the statuses when they break up, lol), and I wasn’t attracted to her. I didn’t even know where she was from.
The next thing I know, I received a message in my inbox, so I felt like I was light-weight committed to this situation. I asked her where she was from and she said Detroit. Gosh darn it. I then asked what area, hoping she said the eastside or some suburb, and she replied “off of Livernois.” Shucks. That was maybe 4 minutes from where I was at the time. At this point, I figured helping her out wasn’t a big deal, so I told her to call me around 11 a.m. the next morning.
I didn’t think anything else of it until I was talking to a lady friend of mine and she brought up the fact that I could be possibly going to pick up a killer. Darn it, I forgot about that. This is Detroit afterall, she may not be a killer, but her goons could have been looking for some dumb facebook prey to set up. She brought up the fact that I very well may have slept with someone she knew and they knew what kind of cars I drove, money I may have on me, etc…so it could be a setup. Now my future good deed had turned into a potential nightmare.
I went back to her page, did some Google stuff, and verified that was her real name, what college she attended, etc… so I felt a little better. When she called me in the morning, I ran the address she gave me through Detroit’s Property Taxes database, to get the name of the actual homeowner and I did a quick Google Maps check to make sure it wasn’t a trap block (I refuse to go on blocks where there are too many vacant lots/houses). Everything was on the up and up, so I grabbed my trusty Glock and jumped in one of my boys cars with a little more power under the hood just in case I had to make a speedy get-a-way. Right before I left, I left a note on my computer just in case I was killed making sure that they buried all of my shoes with me, who I went to see…along with her info, and instructions to magnetize and burn my laptop and desktop computers, “yall don’t want to see what’s on there.”
Once I got in her neighborhood, I took a trip around the block to check for any n*gga activity; all was clear. I saw old people in their yards watering their grass and that’s always a good sign. After a minute, I let her know I was outside and she eventually came out with a few bags.
Fortunately, it was the same girl from facebook, only…a little less attractive than her pics suggested. I wasn’t mad though, as I didn’t come to get on, but I won’t act like a pretty chick wouldn’t have made it a little more enjoyable. She was pretty quiet after saying her initial hello, which seemed weird to me since she was in the car with some random dude who could have done anything to her. Then again, you don’t really talk to your cab driver do you?
Before I hit the Lodge freeway, she asked me to stop at the bank. Was she about to tell me to go to the ATM and clean out my account with a gun to my head? Ummmm, no. She offered to give me gas money. At $4 a gallon, I wasn’t mad at her, so I gladly went. She returned to give me $30, which was MORE than enough considering that small drive I had to make. I was pretty thankful for the donation, thinking perhaps I should moonlight as a cab driver in this Marauder with 22′s. I probably should have put some of that money towards gas in my boys car, but ehhh, he’ll be alright.
I kept the music down pretty low as to not destroy her hearing, but I was then forced to talk to her by the threat of multi-person car silence. I asked her a few questions about where she was going and she seemed very uninterested in speaking to me, as evident by her dry, one word answers. She desperately needed to get back to U of M to take her finals, but I’m thinking, for $30, she could have actually got a real cab. We ended up at the Greyhound station within 7 minutes. She got out, said thanks, and i pulled off.
That was the first time I’d ever had a woman in a car with me that I didn’t hug…or squeeze her ass…or something. It felt kind of weird, like I was really a cab driver, only the customer rode in the front. I said a little quick prayer thanking God for not letting her cut my nuts off and I went on my way, driving from Dexter to Davison running out more of my boys gas.
Would you ever offer a random person a ride off the street or on facebook? If you were a woman, would you even accept a ride from a stranger, especially off of the internet?




17 Comments
4/29/2011
I would drive a chick somewhere that I didn’t know. it’s really not that much of a biggie. I wouldn’t say that I wouldn’t expect any type of sexual payment, but I would do it.
As far as a woman is concerned she’s crazy for climbing in a car with guy she never even met.
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4/29/2011
Heck no—not in Detroit. I watch “Hardcore Pawn” and i see what type of people fall into the place. Them folks look like God ain’t been good to Detroit.
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4/29/2011
I would have been worried that you were the killer lol! Just can’t get in random guys cars anymore lol.
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4/29/2011
You know better then to spend that money on meijer cookes and condom depot smh
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4/30/2011
I have been offered rides plenty of times while walking around my neighborhood, and have never ever accepted one. Something about it just seems creepy to me. As far as getting a ride from a stranger on facebook, that’s another no for me, it’s too dangerous. Though some men would be doing it just out of kindness I just can’t see it happening. I’ve had too many uncomfortable moments with being approached while walking.
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4/30/2011
I wondered where you been, why the absence from the blog. She probably didn’t open her mouth KNOWING you would try to shove your man piece it in.
Be careful with your choice of deeds. Nothing is wrong with a good deed, just don’t be stupid. Hey can I borrow thirty bucks as your good deed for tomorrow???
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May 3rd, 2011 at 1:15 pm
lol, no you can’t borrow $30. As far as the blog, I just didn’t have anything to write about. Shoot, this one alone was a filler. I’m going to try to write one today.
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May 4th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Aww shucks, well I will return this evening to read your latest adventure.
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4/30/2011
YAAAAAY!! New blog entry!! u know u really have to stop doing this to us! But HELL TO THE NA I wouldnt have gave her ass a ride! this time u was lucky…but next time leave that act of kindness to a cab driver or some random dummy! girls..not women can be very sneaky! If it was a set up u wouldve been a easy victim!! Food for thought!
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4/30/2011
NO…..I cant do it…too many negative varibles for me to take that chance.
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5/1/2011
I wouldn’t have done what you did! No way! At least you did your research and checked stuff out beforehand…I’m all for helping random strangers, but you gotta watch yourself these days. Has she broken up with the BF on facebook yet?
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May 3rd, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I don’t think their relationship was ever in jeopardy. I haven’t talked to her since that day though.
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5/3/2011
WELL SEEING AS THOUGH YOU DONT HAVE ANY PICS OF YOUR ACTUAL FACE ON YOUR FB PAGE… SHE WAS CRAZY I DEFINATELY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THE RIDE AND SHE REALLY COULD HAVE GOTTEN A CAB WITH 30$ BUT MAYBE SHE JUST DIDNT THINK THAT FAR. ME BEING ME I THINK ENTIRELY TOO MUCH SO I WOULDNT HAVE TAKEN THE RIDE… AND AS FAR AS GIVING ONE. DEFINATELY WOULDNT HAVE DONE THAT EITHER..!! BUT BIG UPS TO YOU uH… THAT WAS SWEET. I WOULDNT DO IT AGAIN THOUGH =/
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May 3rd, 2011 at 1:14 pm
yea, I doubt I will.
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5/3/2011
Finally a post. Nah strangers are very suspect in my opinion.
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5/4/2011
It’s astonishing how uncomfortable silence makes people.
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5/17/2011
When I was younger, i always took rides with strangers. and they were always these rough looking guys. i’m thankful none of them raped me or killed me. lol. i hate seeing people drive on the sides of the roads or waiting for the bus in the rain…if people these days weren’t so damn crazy and gas wasn’t so expensive, i would pick them up.
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