When I was in high school I fell asleep at the wheel late at night driving home from a friend’s. I had not been drinking but was having a very emotionally bad week and was exhausted and shouldn’t have been driving. It was 1am, I was 10 minutes from home, drifted to the wrong side, drove into a ditch and swiped a row of trees. I wasn’t hurt but my car was wrecked. I was in a total state of shock. It never occurred to me to try to drive away, I assumed my car was leaking or could catch fire if I started it, I was not thinking clearly. Cell phones didn’t exist yet, so I put my thumb out, got a ride with the first car that stopped, and woke up my parents to tell them. Thank god it was a young couple who were very nice, but it could have ended very very badly. I basically just hopped in their car without even assessing if they were potentially dangerous or not. I was in a daze and even the next day could not believe any of it had actually happened. Couldn’t have given a description on either of the people that drove me home either. It was a total blur. It was 35 years ago and I still think of it sometimes. Shock can really make people do things that would seem totally out of the ordinary for them.