Carjacker
For a change, let's have this situation from a woman's POV {point of view}.
After one whole day of shopping, you carry all your newly-bought shirts and pants to your car that's waiting in the middle of the local mall's vast parking lot. By now it's 9.00 PM, and only a few cars are left on the parking lot.
As you make your way towards your parking lot, which is only illuminated by lamp posts placed a few yards apart, you catch a shadow. It's... oh, crap.. it can't be...
It is. It's a carjacker. He's prying open a Hummer.
Then, something worse happens. He sees you looking at him and his sinister deed. "Look, lady," he says, "you better get to your car and leave the hell outta here. I have a gun." [But he doesn't show you a gun.]
You look around. There's a security guard about a hundred meters back. You could hurry to your Picanto and leave the lot like a scolded cat, or you could help the poor owner of the Hummer being carjacked. You could run to the security guard, since you're wearing comfortable {but still stylishly hip} sneakers.
If you were this lady [remember? Female POV], would you run as fast as you can towards the security guard to report the crook, or run the other way towards your car and leave the place?
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