Ride Sharing
“The limo driver gets out of the car. I’m like, ‘It’s fine. Maybe he just hit something’,” said Katie Queen. “He gets back in, opens up the back window, and says, ‘you’ve a flat tire’.” And there they sat, in Brookline, N.H. “We just laughed about it,” said Angelique Arsenault, the bride whose wedding they were trying to get to. “We actually had cars driving by us, and they just took pictures and left. And then finally someone actually stopped to see if we needed a ride.” The passerby took the bridal party to the wedding. The rescuer, Jay, “pretty much made the whole day,” she said. (AC/WBZ Boston) ...Maybe that’s the answer to the obvious question: Why didn’t they just summon an Uber?Original Publication Date: 02 October 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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