"yeah, sorry. it's been a long walk getting this far, my brains a little scrambled." he apologized with a loose, noncommittal shrug of his shoulders. part of him wanted to give up, this clearly wasn't going to work and he was wasting time with this conversation, but a quick glance around only managed to make him that much more desperate. there was no one else to try and bum a ride off of and, well, if it was going to take him an hour to get there in the car it was going to take him twice that, maybe longer, on foot; and he was already exhausted.
"look," he huffed without fully realizing the other man was still toying around with his previous slipup as he teased about payment. "i know i'm already askin' a lot here, but the more simple the pay the better. i'm a little strapped for cash at the moment so if you've got something else in mind, i'm all ears."
just as he was about to throw the proverbial towel in and start his march into the night, his knees practically buckled beneath him as the man unlocked the doors to his car; as the man let him in. hanson hadn't been religious for a long time now but that didn't stop the stray hallelujah from falling from his lips in whisper as he hurried to pull the passenger side door open.
stuffing his bag into the floorboard at his feet, he scrunched himself into the seat-- his legs an awkward fit around his duffle. "you have no idea how much i appreciate this man. really. you ever heard of murphy's law? well murphy has heard of me and has been fuckin' me with that law of his for two whole days." he explained with a hoarse, tired laugh as he pulled the car door shut and looked over at the other.
his savior.
"my car broke down two days ago and i called for a tow but they never came but i figured, since i called, they'd be coming eventually so i camped out of my car for a day-- two days actually-- but, yeah, they never came. i know what you're thinking, why didn't i call them back? my phone died. like i said, murphy's. fuckin'. law."
"so, uh, until you pulled in here my only option, really, has been to walk."
"you're really savin' me here."