Thanx to catering I've been doing a lot of extra walking, unfortunately most of the time either chasing buses or walking home at 1am. It also makes you put a lot of trust into other people, like getting into strangers' cars =S Sometimes I'm surprised I'm still alive.
One time I was asking for directions from a car stopped at the lights when I was lost somewhere in the suburb next to mine, and the three people turned out to be looking for the same suburb, and offered for me to hop in with them. I didn't have much of a choice since I was lost as all hell, and they couldn't give me clear directions either. They were pretty friendly people though, and not a serial killing gang as they could have been, and I got home much faster than if I kept on wandering around.
Oh and I got picked up by police too. On a walk back from a neighbouring suburb about 40mins walk away, I was halfway home when I spotted a stray kitty on the sidewalk of a roundabout so I stopped to pat it for a while. I seem to see a lot of cats around my suburb and they're ALL super friendly, heehee kitten love ftw. But I digress. Because the police car that pulled up next to me scared the kitten away, and I had to explain what I was doing loitering about at 1am in the middle of apparently nowhere. In the end I was 'offered' a ride back home and told off =( ah well it did save me another 20mins of walking.
Last Friday on the way to Pikenba (which turned out to be further than expected) I missed by bus stop to the venue somewhere in the industrial suburb, and got off near some shops to ask for directions. I had missed the stop by a km, and was about to run through the midday sun on a dusty road back, when the truckie who gave me directions offered to drive me to there instead. It was my first time riding in a truck so I thought that was quite fun, and that it would have been a long run back.
Shows that there are good people out there who are willing to take a stranger into their car, and go out of their way to help them out or keep them safe. Just gotta pick them out from the seemingly-normal weirdos who will strangle you in their car, bury you in a sandpit and steal your shoes O___O
