As to car problems, there was one chap who used to run out of petrol ALL THE TIME... When I worked in Table View, I used to alternate my routes a fair bit to alleviate the tedium of the commute. I saw him at least once every two weeks at one stage, in different places of course.

On the way back from AfrikaBurn we stopped to help a woman who appeared to be stranded in the middle of nowhere but after chatting to her we all decided she was a fake, and she turned snarky when it became apparent that we were not going to give her money. It helped that we were three people though!