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All right, it is Mojo in the morning. Okay, so Megan, I want to get to this topic because I want to make sure it doesn't get too late to be able to do this. Would you give a stranger a ride?

I feel really bad about this. You want me to get into the whole story right now?

I want you to get right into this.

So this past weekend, I was sitting outside of some government buildings in Toledo. And as I was sitting there, I was going through my phone. I was trying to figure out the address of the next place I was trying to be. I was late for an appointment and, um, I couldn't find the address. I couldn't find the address and I was getting super frustrated and I hear this tapping noise on my window, which just, I'm sorry, aggravates the hell out of me. Like if you see somebody sitting alone in the car and you knock on the window, you're a terrible person, period, point blank. You scared the crap out of me. I don't like being scared. Um, but it was actually a young guy. He was, I'm so bad at ages. If I had to guess his age, he was anywhere between 18 and like 21. I don't know, somewhere in there. And he knocked on my window and I rolled it down. I go, hey, what's going on? And he goes, I need a ride home. And immediately I'm like, no, buddy, I'm sorry. No, I'm not going to give you a ride home. I'm sitting alone in my car. I have no idea who you are. I'm not going to allow you into my vehicle to give you a ride home. It's not going to happen. I said, I'm really sorry. I'm running late for, I didn't say that to him, by the way, I'm nicer than that. But I said to him, I'm late for this appointment. I'm trying to figure out where I'm going. Can I Venmo you some money to call an Uber? And he said, my phone is that I can't call an Uber. I can't give you a ride home because that feels so unsafe. I cannot give you money to get a ride home. Like, there's nothing I can do. And he just shrugged his shoulders and walked away. And I thought about this all weekend, all weekend, that it was cold outside. He was a young dude, whatever. But in my mind, I could not give you a ride. I'm with you. I wouldn't have either.

Did you think about maybe Ubering him? I tried, but he didn't have a phone. I'm calling it from your phone.

But I had to leave, so where is the Uber going to go?

Well, no, just current location.

I think in this day and age, you've got to assume the worst of all the situations.

I'm for sure not giving them a ride.

No, no, no. I'll get you on that.

I felt absolutely awful all weekend. So wait, so you were second-guessing yourself? I cried about this. Really? I cried about it. I cried about it.

What made you cry?

Because I knew how cold it was.

Yeah.

And I felt guilty.

Was there any other... I'm sure you already thought about this, but was there any other building that you could point him inside to be like...

He had come from a government building. Okay. Mm-hmm.

Okay.

so alright here's a question has anybody ever given a stranger a ride my mama

my mama used to do this all the time

my mama used to do this

all the time and not just a certain type of person like my mom had given old ladies at the grocery store rides we picked people up from the bus station when I was a young kid my mama used to be like get in the back like randos Mojo you did it

I did one time

I'll never forget that story Chelsea was so... Because weren't you on the phone with Chelsea?

Yes. It was... We were at the... I was at the gas station, the Shell station, and the person wanted a ride to the Kroger. And it was... Like, just down the street, right? They had to go to work. And I... But they looked like they had the uniform. I don't know. It's kind of like they were dressed in the uniform, so...

That's something, and I feel like I feel bad about a lot of things. I wouldn't feel bad about. Like, safety is paramount there. Yeah.

You want to be a nice person. And you want to be kind, you want to help somebody in need, but at what cost and risk to yourself?

And then if you pick this person up and something happened to you, people would be like, you idiot.

Yeah.

But I also feel like it's my obligation to help others.

And I didn't.

I left them in a crappy situation.

And you know how horrible the cold is. But Natalie, what's up? How you doing?

I'm good. Good morning, guys. Good morning. This is actually one of the craziest stories of my life.

When I was a kid, my dad accidentally left my mom and I at a rest stop, and it was, like, 3 in the morning. We were right on the border of, like, Tennessee and I don't know whatever state that is, and this lady saw my dad drive away without us, and she was like, do you guys need a ride? And she drove us, like, three hours until my dad, like, got caught by highway police, and they were like, hey, you accidentally left your child and wife. How did that happen is a bigger part of that story. That was no accident.

You don't forget two people.

We had like one of those really big like creeper vans. And my mom and I had been sleeping in the back. So he went in and thought that we had stayed in the car. And it was like 3 a.m. We were so sleep deprived. So there's a bunch of blankets back there. And it looks like, you know, two bodies. So he just thought we were really asleep. and he was like you guys ready to go we didn't say anything obviously we weren't there so he just

that is a crazy story wow uh by the way i bet your mom never let him live that one ever again chris what's up it's mojo in the morning hi hey how are you good what's going on

so i gave this girl it was like probably like midnight one time i was at a gas station and she was hysterically crying and like hysterically crying um freaking out i heard her like on the phone using the phone at the gas station like just crazy so i was like where are you going and she told me it was like 15 minutes from where i lived and because i would normally never give anyone a ride i don't know why i did but i'm like i need you to dump out your purse take your jacket off empty all of your pockets and turn around because i got to see if you have any weapons

get out with your hands up yeah that was by the way i mean look if you want to get in my car that by the way i wouldn't mess with you i'd be like okay it's a ride well no i'll be like i need a ride i'll i'll go naked in the car maybe not naked what's up cassie hi

hi yes my mom actually we were driving home and she hit a guy on a bike um me and my brother her in the car and she hit some dude and we drove him home i mean that's at least i'd probably do that i don't know hold on i'm saying do we give him a ride do we call the police do we run

that's that's crazy hopefully he was okay um melissa what do you think about megan uh feeling bad about not giving this guy a ride she's smart right and not giving him a ride i i think you've

got to trust your gut with that yeah um i've driven people home if i saw them like if i pass a disabled vehicle and they're walking with a can of gas um i've given them rides there i've given like kids younger kids obviously than me uh who are walking in like shorts in this weather i've given them rides home yeah but i i fully expect that one of these times i do i'm gonna get jumped in my car you gotta be careful yeah you do have to trust your god and it depends on where you're at as well i mean in toledo no way there's no way i would do it but in front of the government

in front of the government building in toledo no i'm but i'm saying any i would say any city or any town you got to be worried about i wouldn't just randomly do it but it's crazy by the way that woman was from toledo because her heard her that's why she said that's why

No, I, okay.

But so she wasn't dissing on Toledo from another city.

It just hit, I did do this one time. I was downtown Royal Oak. I think I was leaving the club or doing something, and this girl had knocked on my window. She's like, hey, can you give me a ride? I live down the street. Can you just drop me off in my apartment? And I was hesitant, but I let her in. And nothing happened. I was, I wasn't in my brain. How much money did she ask for? Nothing, bro. I didn't even try to smash her. Are you sure she wasn't like a prostitute or anything? No, she got out right at her spot. She was like, my dad is a lawyer. She had, like, this whole, like, conversation and thing.

I'd be afraid that she was trying to, you know, set you up for something. I wasn't thinking. Sean, are you there?

Hi, yeah.

Sean gave a lady a ride, right? Is that right?

I gave her a ride to multiple garage sales, actually.

So you were just trying to be nice, and then next thing you know, she wants you to go to garage sales with her?

I was already garage sailing, and she was at one of these garage sales, and she asked if I could take her ride to the one that was right down the street, and I was like, yeah, you know, like, absolutely. Turns out she was from Nigeria, so maybe this is common for them, but she kept telling me to, like, wait for her to go to the next garage sale, and I did, and we ended up, like, going garage sailing, like, for, like, half of the morning, and then finally I was like, I really gotta go is there somewhere that can

Drop you and your, like, boxes of clothes. She was buying clothes that she was going to ship back to her family. Oh, wow. That's nice.

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