To find this man in park suspicious

Ideally you would have said no and offered to phone someone for him instead if he needed.

He almost certainly wasn't a murderer, most people aren't. But, he was someone with either bad intent or strikingly poor judgement, to ask a woman to drive him to his car. As others have said, why not ask a man?

I am not a 'log it with 101' type. But most police forces have an online incident reporting form, and this is exactly what it's for.

Yea weirdo alert. Men need to understand it’s never appropriate to ask women they don’t known to help them. Also his GF was in the park so why didn’t he just wait or call her?

Once I was walking past a house and a man was carrying stuff in - bookshelves etc. He asked me, a lone 20-something to help him carry something into the house! I said no.

I'm glad you were safe and I'm glad you are a nice person who helps out others - they're in short enough supply. But...Any man with half a brain should know it is entirely inappropriate to ask a lone woman with a child to give a lift to a male stranger.

Next time, please don't feel you have to be nice and compliant to a strange man whose request for help could potentially put you in jeopardy. It's okay to say, 'No.'

Also why wait until the sister is in the car ready to drive off?

Why not sit down on a bench/wall/rock/whatever and wait for the girlfriend? Didn't they have phones?

Regardless of whether he had any ill intent it's an odd way to behave. I'm really confident my DH or adult son would not have asked to get in a car with a woman and teenage girl and I would be suspicious of any man who would.

Did you know you can drive without using your legs? You can have hand controls.
Dd's driving instructor drove like that.
She has one hand and has a small adaption on the steering wheel.

Why the sob story about his girlfriend too

Why not ask a man for help

We do things because we are nice and as woman and girls are conditioned this way it allows predatory men to take advantage, maybe he wasn’t but he certainly added some manipulation into his reasoning

I probably would have done the same op but would think later I shouldn’t have

He should have asked a man. I wouldn't do anything like that again.

But don't dwell on it, all's well that ends well.

I know everyone should be able to trust everyone but sadly, the world isn't like that.
There is no way I'd have let a male stranger into my car and I can't believe some people think it's fine! Yes, he might have been completely legitimate but you didn't know that.
Also very odd for a male to put a female stranger in that position.

Yeah very insulting

Your last sentence is pretty ignorant. The disabled or people with mobility problems can still drive. We're not all like Stephen Hawkin.

I mean we'll never know if he had bad intentions. As your sister stayed and didn't drive off we can assume this would put off anyone wanting to harm you.

Don't take the risk next time. Calmly explain that women are statistically at risk from men and tell him to ask a man. You don't need to put yourself or daughter in danger on the slight chance you might actually have found someone in genuine need.

I wonder how you'd feel if this was his trial run and the next time you hear about this someone is in a body bag. Yes predators do this.

I too thought of ted Bundy!

Presuming this was innocent and he wasn't a murderer, he's asking way too much of a stranger, a woman at that, without adult male company. For that alone it would be a NO

Exactly, there were two of them, they presumably had mobiles, and as the driver you are in control of the vehicle.

I think everyone is being ott. It honestly just sounds like the guy was struggling to walk and didn't want to be stood around waiting for his gf when he could sit in the car. Perhaps a bit of an odd request to ask a stranger but considering nothing bad happened he seems to have been legit.

That's what I thought old straight away.

OP please never let a stranger in your car again.

Women and girls have been conditioned by society to want to help and feel that they should. The minority of men who wish to do them harm know this and will use it to make women vulnerable. Equally, as above, the "good ones" are aware of this and would ask a man for help rather than put a woman in a situation which may make her uncomfortable.

Obviously nothing bad happened on this occasion but I think it's right to question. Sure, it's sad that we live in a society where we can't dole out help without a degree of paranoia but that's where we are.

Personally I would never let a strange man in to my car, go near their car, stop to help etc. You did the right thing in asking your sister to watch though, so didn't exactly put your daughter at risk.

If you are ever in a similar situation just say you are sorry but aren't able to help. Most normal men wouldn't put a woman in that situation.

While I agree with your sister, we’ve all agreed to odd requests when we’ve been totally thrown by them. Don’t dwell on it.

My dad would never ever ask a stranger for any kind of help but physically he could be that chap. Struggles to walk to far, uphill or any sort of distance but can drive perfectly well. Just to say the situation itself is not unfeasible.

You did put yourselves at risk.If he was genuine he should have asked a man for help.Most men realise women would be wary of letting strange men in their car and would wait till a man came along.
Dont ever risk your safety for anyone again.

I am a bit on the fence about this one, people are being stopped from helping people because of an unlikely event that something will happen. The man sounds like he was in a lot of pain and he didn't want his girlfriend to get even more annoyed at him. He didn't do anything so you know his true intention and I'm pretty sure he didn't drop an air tag in your car.
@HannaMaddie you should be suspicious and you need to get out if that relationship foe the sake of your sister and yourself.

and how he was going to drive with poor mobility

People drive with poor walking mobility ALL the time. Even without adapted cars. Just because he had a limp doesn't mean he wouldn't be safe to drive.

Yes it was. He'd fake injury then ask women to help in order to get them into a vehicle.

Just because he struggles walking doesn’t mean he’d struggle driving