I suppose you had to be there. There was no question in my mind but that the request for a lift was entirely genuine. We were in a village with a strikingly low crime rate, the boy was obviously walking from the bus stop, he looked frozen stiff, and the temperature was Siberian. Not to mention the fact that a little way further on anyone on foot would have been walking either in deep snow, or in the tyre tracks in the road.
Nobody with any decency would have turned him down.
Rolfe.
