Mistaken Identity.

She gave the key a desperate third turn only to hear the sound of her car's engine stall again. In a panic she locked her car door. She sat with her hands on the wheel at ten and twelve and took in her souroundings. A broken down car on blocks was parked in the drive way behind her. It looked like any usable part it had been removed. There were store's too, all closed at this hour. Windows were boarded up, broken she guessed and the ones that weren't had bars over them. All the doors had pill down cages with locks over them to ensure that breakng in would be a task. Somewhere in the distance a dog barked violently and brought her mind back to the problem at hand. Her vell phone was dead and her car had broken fown on a dark street in Over-the Rhine. Her dad told her repeatedly that her little '97 Honda Civic was unreliable. "What are tou going to do when it breaks down on you while your driving?" her Father's words played over and over again in her head.
"I don't know dad," she said aloud. She broke into a heavy sob, the tears rolling swiftly down her cheeks and off her nose. Suddenly in the dark she saw a shadow move. She took deep, heavy breaths trying to calm herself and keep her hands from shaking. Now it was her mother's words that she couldn't get out of her head. "Downtown is no place for pretty girls like you honey. There are all kinds of thugs and holligans that will take advantage of anyone they can het their hands on." Her mother would say "This looks like a place where murders and rapists live." She saw the shadow in the dark move again this time much closer to her car. She sat, frozen, with fear, unable to move. BAM! All of a sudden there was a thud against her back window. A black man wearing a dark ski cap and a raggidy sweat shirt was standing next to her car. "Roll your window down," he demanded. She stared at him for a moment and seeing no other option she slowly cracked the driver's side window. "I saw you break down miss," he said, "And i've already called AAA, but I'll wait with you until they come. You never know what kind of characteres are lurking around the streets at this time of night."