that entire road trip was great, but the stopped car deserves its own mention.
i wasn't in a rush and i wanted to complete an irl side quest, so i decided to turn around and see what was up. turns out two mexican dudes were behind the wheel. they didn't speak english at all, so we communicated through google translate. it turned out that their engine had died and they needed to deliver fiber to a company a few miles down the road. being a non-car person, i couldn't even begin to diagnose what was up with their motor (embarrassing, i didn't even have jumper cables in my trunk, which i have since ordered), so i just offered to drop them off at their destination. when i dropped them off, one of them tried handing me a jackson through the passenger window, which i refused. i still wonder how they're doing now