If you haven’t seen the quiz yet, go there and read it first before you check my answer below the fold.
My answer:
I would slow down as I got to the bus stop, then roll down my window and shout out:
“So… how’s that public transport thing working out for all of you then?”
…before speeding off home to my wife.
I figured you say something like that. I didn’t participate because I wasn’t sure how “why would I stop” be taken.
Never fear how your comments will be taken on this back porch.
If I stopped, I’d take the pregnant woman a, the lost child, and the surgeon.
Why?
The pregnant woman may indeed be going into labor or other pregnancy related emergency.
The child because it’s a child, thus inexperienced in life and foolish.
The surgeon, not for his sake, but for his patient needing the “critical surgery”. After all, all of his many British and Italian sports cars may have broken down simultaneously.
Leaving the “person you know” sitting in the bus stop.
Why? Because they’re either going to be able to handle his little inconvenience well and take responsibility for stranding themselves without getting their nose out of joint, or they incapable of doing so and I have no wish to have any further dealings with them.