So I was driving to work the other day...

...with the windows down and the radio going, waiting patiently at a stoplight. There's a bus stop right there, with people waiting, but I don't give it a second thought. When this older Asian woman, who I had assumed was waiting for the next bus, comes up to my car and knocks on the passenger-side door. This of course startles me a bit, but being the polite type I turn down the radio to see what she wants.

In broken English, she asked (in a kind of demanding tone, I thought) if I were driving down to Carson. That puzzled me, so I gave her this blank look.

"What?"

"You drive Carson?" she asked again, and for a second I could have sworn she was going to open my car door and let herself in my car! (Lucky for me I always have it locked anyway...)

....?!?!?

I patiently explained that no, I wasn't driving to Carson, I was driving to work. In Torrance. Not Carson. She looked vaguely disappointed in me, and moved on to the next car, supposedly to ask the same question.

...???

Okay, I like to be helpful and everything, but am I the only one taken aback by this? I mean, if it were a neighbor or someone I knew, maybe I would have been tempted to offer a ride. But for a complete stranger to be asking - no, almost demanding! - a ride... ?

... sometimes people scare me...