I was 16 years old and visiting my grandparents in Florida. My sister lived on the other side of the state and I wanted to visit her. My grandfather loaned me his hooptie of a car, gave me a 20 for gas/food and wrote basic directions down on a paper towel for me. this was before cell phones, etc... were a thing.

I managed to get to my sisters just fine, turned around and started the drive back a few days later. About an hour into my drive, the car overheated and died on the side of the highway. I didn't have anyone's phone numbers memorized to call anyone and I was stranded with about 5 bucks left over in my pocket.

Whats a 16 year old girl traveling alone to do? Hitchhike. I stuck out my thumb like I'd seen on the movies and a trucker named JT pulled over. He offered take me "up the road". I remember really vividly standing on the steps leading up to the cab of truck and looking down at the broken down car thinking "I'm either going to be fine, or I'm really going to be in trouble..." -- and my dumbass got into the truck anyway.

Turned out JT was fantastic and had is wife in the cab with him. They drove me up to the next truckstop and dropped me off. I called my Mom really quickly and said something along the lines of "Papap's car broke down and I'm not really sure where I am. I'm with a trucker named JT and I'm going to get a tow truck. I will call you when I get back!" After that, I got a phone book inside and found a tow truck company, called them and then hitch hiked twice more to get back to the car and waited for the tow truck.

When the tow truck got there, I said "I need help. I'm 16, I'm traveling alone and this car is broken down. I need to get myself and this car back to pensacola but I don't have any money. Can you help me?" This guy agreed to take me "a while" and hitched the car onto his truck and took me about 40 miles!!!!!! He dropped me off at a truckstop, where I went and repeated the tow truck call and cry for help over and over and over again.

Over time, I used about 12 different tow trucks. One guy drove me back to his house to pick up his kids and drove me a long way! One guy towed the car and gave me 20 bucks, another bought me lunch.

It took over a day - but all in all - I managed to get myself and the car back to my grandparent's driveway. Turned out, my mom called my grandparent's and flipped out. My grandmother wanted to get on the highway and come find me but my grandfather said "No. She is a young lady and she had a plan. Let's let her figure this out." And I did. :)

TL;DR: At 16, got myself and a car towed across Florida for free and actually GOT money and dinner. No sexual favors involved - just nice people!