Excellent post. I have hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers, usually while trucking. But sometimes people stranded on the road.
I have had a few close calls here in the U.S.A. some near deadly which is when I stopped. Besides, I don't really go anywhere anyways anymore.
The reason I picked people up was because people helped me out. I have crossed half the continent hitchhiking one time, which I did and blizzard hit. I was grateful for the ride but the guy was a total pervert during the blizzard.
Most of the other people were okay except this one Indian, who took out a big Indian knife. He was in the backseat.
I took my hands off the steering wheel while we drove down a curvy mountain road and told him put the knife away or you better be good at throwing out a huge bastard.
It was a macho thing which Tribal Indians respect. So he sat back and was good after that.
I dropped him off at the army recruiting center.
Yes, my wife was in the passenger seat.
Keeping your composure at such a moment and knowing what to do is the most precious thing. Fortunately, I have not been in a similar situation and I cannot know for myself. Sometimes I think I could talk someone into something just by talking and being human.
However, this is hardly possible with mentally ill people, for example, and there are so many of them who are allowed to walk the streets of the country at the moment and could do anything. Yesterday one of them attacked people with samurai knives in a village. Last week, a young woman in the capital attacked and injured several men on the street. You can't convince such people of anything, because they act faster than talking anyway...
This is the starting point. You help because you have been helped, you know what it is, you understand it, you have experienced it, everyone sees things based on what they have experienced. I don't think anyone has helped me much at all with anything here, so I approach people with suspicion. And apparently there is also an objective reason for it to be so.
You're also a non-martial arts woman, right? These days, it's good to have a lean, mean male hunk machine?
If we're talking about any basic skills a person needs to have to survive in this world, and that's growing your own food, cooking, creating an off-grid lifestyle, martial arts, etc., I don't have many. But the need to have them also gives me the feeling of a lack of progress, in the world, not in me. If we still need that, and we probably do, then we need many other skills like medical skills, etc., but we cannot know and do everything. I know you don't mean that, but the skill of fighting to me is a survival level skill and I don't wish things were still at that level, but maybe they have always been there and always will be...
That's what I am saying and you see the truth: the world is still at a survival level because of the increase in the efficacy of weapons, how to "accidentally let lab study/gain of function research diseases escape", and sometimes people are insane. I have met my share and am still here.
And no nobody knows all things, that's human. It too bad you didn't come to America where evil wizards if drought operate before I found out I did not have a speech impediment it was the microphone - duh!
It would not be that bad here, except lawyers took over all three branches of government and proved beyond shadow of doubt they can't rule for sh__!
But I hear it's that way in Bulguria, too.
Anyways are Bulgarians unique on the planet because they shake their heads side to side for yes and up and down for no?
Ha ha, that's true. 😄I don't do it, because I lived abroad, and all the quirks of the Bulgarian people are foreign to me in principle, but this is one of the many things that amuses foreigners here.
If we talk about lawyers, it can be said that they are prevalent in the government here as well, simply because they know the little tricks and loopholes to circumvent the law, as well as have the ability to change it according to their own whims and interests in the face of the parliament. It is no coincidence that lawyering is a 'high-risk' profession from the point of view of any security or morality...
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