Leaving someone stranded at 1am at night

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Honest opinions wanted here.

Here's the scenario. My friend (she's 26) foudn herself having to return home much later than she expected. This meant she had to get the last train home from Birmingham city centre.

There was a mix up on the departure board which meant she got on the wrong train and ended up in a tiny train station in a village quite far from any major city.

She was clearly distressed as she got off the train and a couple overheard her conversation to her friend. She explain she had only £10
On her, no bank card on her and no idea where she was and no charge on her phone to call anyone to see if they could pick her up.

The couple said they would take her to the main train station in the nearest city which was 10 minutes drive away.

So she got in the car. They dropped her off at that train station at 1am.

She then found a pub willing to let her charge her phone and then when the pub closed she returned to the train station at 2 am. It was at 4am before she realised she could do an emergency transaction using her natwest online banking app.
She comes across as someone who would be comfortably well off so I'm guessing the couple thought she had money but she had explained she did not have her card on her.

She then paid a lot of money for a taxi home.

Now obviously it was nice of the couple to give her a lift the the main train station, but it didn't actually help her much. And they left her at 1am with no cash on her, outside a train station which was boarded up and closed.

That doesn't sit well with me and isn't something I would do. Or am I being unreasonable? Obviously it was unwise of her to travel back at that time but she was not expecting that morning when she left the house to be travelling at that time.

Honest opinions wanted here. And I'm genuinely not the person this post is about.

Just genuinely interested in what others opinion is.

Arse End of beyond

This has to be the same friend who was supposed to be looking after her nephew but had no food to feed him with. Otherwise the OP has two dim friends who shouldn't be out on their own.

I'd like to know what the mix up on the departure board was.

alltoomuch I was 21 first night in Miami drunk at 3am finding my way back to my hostel! Apparently some 26 year olds can't sort themselves out on what seems a regular night out " she normally gets off at the first stop"

Tbh also wondering where she was stranded. From Birmingham new street on the local trains none of the first stops are too far from Birmingham and really out i the sticks (perhaps water orton or coleshill parkway) and on the nationals they are all fairly large area stations

Yep same friend (says on other thread she had to use £100 to get taxi). Also £100 for a taxi means it was really far. Makes the expectation on the couple even crazier

Mrsguyofgisbo I suppose the scam is that people want to be given money to pay for a cab to 'distant place' but when the cab comes, they only take it to 'nearby place' and pocket the rest of the money.

If she had to spend £100 in a taxi to get home then how was the train's final stop the same as the train she should have been on?

I think the OP needs to rethink this chapter of her book :)

She's 26, not 6.

Not sure I believe any of this, nobody is that dim surely?

Meant to go home at 5pm but stayed an extra 6 hours drinking on limited funds instead.
Spent all their money then was too drunk/stupid to read the departure board.
Expected someone else to pick them up but forgot to say where they were.
Has such a bad phone that it takes an hour to charge.
Is not cognitive enough to think about online transfer/get a taxi home & retrieve bank card for another couple of hours.

And you think they are a victim??

We can't get a train home out of Brum past 11 o'clock. Where the hell did she end up at 1am?

I'm totally confused by all this but pretty sure no one is being unreasonable except for the pudding friend

When I was 15 I lived in Herts and used to get all round London on own used to bunk off school and hang around with the goths and punks at Kensington Market too Never any trouble with buses and trains and I was often alone coming back at night.. if I missed the last train and had to hang around at Euston till the 5am then I sucked it up as totally my own fault..
Still in my teens I later got on a plane for the first time…. alone to USA…
I don't see why her age is irrelevant..what point I'm making is that you can be responsible for yourself and travel at any reasonable age.. no mobiles when I was doing it in the 80s either...

I'd advise your friend not to leave the house alone again, she doesn't sound able to manage.

I wouldn't be giving a random a lift at 1am, I'd stay well clear.

OP are you writing this because secretly you are exasperated?

Why didn't she make a call while her phone was charging?

If I had a friend like you, OP, who is willing to drive random strangers all over the country then I would have called you.

the train she got on had the same final destination as the one she should have got and came into the platform at the same time with the same departure board up.

Why didn't she stay on the train then?

Op your friends are a bunch of numptys.

If I accidentally got on the wrong train and got off in the middle of nowhere with no means to get myself home, I would expect to either sleep on the station or walk around all night to keep warm until the first train of the morning.

Your friend was lucky to be offered a lift anywhere.

The OP is clearly the nitwit friend & was hoping for us all to agree on how unkind the couple were?!

What a shame you weren't able to drive out to get her immediately OP. She obviously can't cope in that big wide world on her own.

Desolate that hole was covered! She gets off the same stop! HT it still means they were going the same direction so couldn't be that far apart!

If the OP actually IS the nitwit friend then we need to worry because on a previous thread she has claimed to be a doctor!