“I offered a ride to a a young man and his aged mother dragging an open suitcase full of groceries during a winter storm.”
Ah, flashback for me to 5 or 6 years ago. An old man wearing dress suit and shoes was carrying several bags of groceries along the highway shoulder in a sloppy mess of melting snow.
I pulled over to offer a ride and he took one look at me and backed away fast shaking his head no.
It was then I realized I had on a skull and crossbones do-rag, reflector shades and my grayed out goatee was in its prime at 6”.
He wasn’t having anything to do with me.
I would have hesitated too! LOL