I can't sleep. Its 2 am in the morning and I am restless, too many things are running through my head for me to sleep.
I've been doing these writing prompts that are supposed to get the creative juices flowing. Some of the activities have caused me to look within and somethings I would care to forget have resurfaced. On the positive side it has given me things of substance to write about but it has caused memories I would care to not remember to come back, hence the sleepless night to night.
In other news the other day I kind of accidentally picked up a random drunk guy off the street. It was a familiar street, right in front of the Highland Gym. I was on my way to a doctors appointment and as I was about to leave campus I heard a guy yell hey! The reason I stopped at all was because it was on campus. Everyone knows everyone on campus and your suppose to be nice to your Adventist neighbor right?
I stopped my car, he asked if he could get a ride and I hesitantly let him get in my car. What could it hurt taking the guy to the store a mile down the road? Well as we approached the store he said no this isn't the right one its further down the road. Hmmm that doesn't sound right. I've driven on this road the whole year and I have never seen another store besides this one but naive, stupid, Kendra decides to believe the inebriated gentlemen and follow the directions he is suggesting. As we approach the highway he points to a road and he says that's it, turn here. I look and the sign says Dead End. I turn on the DEAD END street.
At this point I am getting super scared. I'm headed down a dead end road with a strange man in my car and he is telling me to just go a little further down this road. The road goes from pavement to gravel and I decide that I should probably start to ask Jesus to forgive all my sins. As my heart races I decide to tell the guy I'm going to turn around and he says "oh I think its just around here." No this is someones yard, you sent me in the wrong direction, drunk individual. I turn around and than stop the car and ask him to get out, I have an appointment I'm going to be late for. He says uh no I don't think I can do that. I'm not sure what to do at this point and I shoot up another prayer to God to keep me safe despite my stupidity. I say well let me take you back to that other store we just past and he agrees, its about a mile down the road and all the way there I'm almost shaking cause I realize how dumb this decision was. We get to the store and thank the Lord he gets out! I drive away and breathe a huge sigh of relief.
I have done some dumb things in my life but I think this probably tops them. I will never pick up a stranger even if he is on campus. Kendra what were you thinking? I wasn't thinking at all was I?
