KGH, you have my sympathy, Rte 9!? *Shudder*!! You should be proud of your son; I noticed a lot of the racist exclusion, too; some of my neighbours really were shocked that I'd done something so simple as to help a mother and her children.

In the wintertime out here all bets are off. If you don't help someone the *Winter Demon* might come and get you and that can be lethal. It is just too seriously life-threatening out here for people NOT to stop and help out.