“Try to turn it over,” she ordered.  Tina did so, and there was nothing, just a horrible clicking sound.  There was some banging, some grunting.  The woman then walked around to the door, Tina still held onto the mace with a deadly grip.  “Open the gas tank?”

            Tina grimaced, but did as she’d been asked.  A few moments later, soft swears in Spanish, then knowing grunts.  “Si, I thought so, someone dumped sugar into your tank, or something grainy, sand perhaps.”

            “What?” yelled Tina, getting out of the car, forgetting about being scared.  “Who would do something like that?”

            The woman shrugged, a strand of silky hair fell into her even dark eyes, “I don’t know.”  She shrugged, slipping a hand into her cargo pants, letting them ride a bit lower, revealing a pair of white thongs against her dark olive skin.

            “Fuck, fuck and double fuck!”

            “Actually, that would be, triple fuck,” the woman smiled.  She leaned up against the back of Tina’s car, her arms crossed over her chest.  “If you need a ride, I can give you one.”

            “No, I’ll call a cab, I’ll call a truck in the morning,” groaned Tina, as if things couldn’t get any worse this evening. 

            “You got many enemies?” the Latina asked Tina, walking around the car as if looking for something.  Her dark eyes darting around the parking lot, just a few of the patrons of the club making out by a car, nothing threatening, or so it seemed.

            “No,” shot back Tina.

            “Are you sure, you got a flat here too, even if your car had started, you wasn’t going much of anywhere tonight, chica.”

            Tina threw up her hands, beyond angry now, “Fuck!”  She reared back, kicking the back panel of the car with such force that it left a dent.

            Look, give me a few minutes?  I can at least change the tire for you?  This way it won’t cost you an arm an a leg to get it fixed.  Just an arm and a few toes off the other foot.”

            “I can’t ask you to do that,” smiled Tina, the cute joke made her laugh and put her instantly at ease.  There were still good Samaritans out there.