Abigail (Abby) Marsh

I did.

It was the most terrified I've ever been in my life.

And I remember trying over and over to turn the car back on, and I couldn't figure out why.

I couldn't get the engine to reengage.

I remember turning on the brights.

I turned on the flashers just to try to alert people to my presence.

But I didn't have a phone because it was the 90s, and so there was absolutely nothing else I could do.

And I thought that eventually I was going to get hit, and I would either get very badly hurt or killed.

Yeah, one of the great shocks of my life.

So it was a summer night and the windows were rolled down.

And I was very surprised in the middle of all this to hear a knock on the passenger side window, which because of which way I was facing was on the very narrow sort of tiny ridge on the edge of the fast lane.

And I turned to see a man standing outside the car wearing as best as I can recollect a suit.

And he had a shaved head and chains around his knackle jewelry and sunglasses, even though it was the middle of the night.

And I remember the silly thought flashing through my head of like, oh, no, oh, no, you know, this is a stranger.

I'm not supposed to let strangers into my mom's car.

And he said, you look like you could use some help, which was quite an understatement.

And of course, I said, yeah, I do.

So then he said, okay, do you mind if I get into the driver's seat?

So I said, okay, that's fine.

And I scooched myself over the central console into the passenger seat while he waited for a break in the traffic, which took a minute because of course, all while we're talking to each other, the cars are still continuing to blow by.