alt Hacker NewsThe other night at the grocery store a woman with a cart and groceries approached me in the parking lot, asked if I (a male) could give her a ride home. Was probably innocent enough, but I declined. No way I'm going to accept even the possibility that she'd claim I did something, with no witnesses. That's just the world we live in and it's sad in a way. No trust anymore.
I hope Uber drivers have in interior camera running in their cars, for their own protection.
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When faced with the choice of trusting a stranger, you turned it down, then made the decision about the lack of trust in the world?
Trust in strangers has never been easy in the US. If something is to change, it has to start individually.
This incident is creepy enough that I would also not agree to a give a random stranger a ride home, absent any additional context or mitigations. Maybe to avoid waking up in an ice bath with my liver gone. But, to not give a ride because of some perceived idea that they would claim you assaulted them or something is a bit "this person should go touch some grass" or whatever.
It's wild how much this actually happened and isn't made up. It sounds so contrived as to be only useful for making a passive aggressive rhetorical point, but for it to happen in real life, wow!
Happy that you were honest about it, but paranoia is not healthy.