What to do?

This was quite some time ago. We were driving out in the country when we got a flat tire. There were no phone booths around and there certainly were no cell phones at the time. And that’s when we had an interesting discussion about what one should do.

The sun was setting and it was getting dark, so we thought, should we just sit and wait, hoping for a Good Samaritan that may never come by? Or should we head up to that big, run-down, mysterious-looking house way off to the side of the road? The big lonely one with only one light on and no neighbors for miles around?

At first we decided to just sit. My argument was that I’d seen way too many horror films, and by gosh this was always how they started. On the other hand, my friend countered that it was also one of the most common ways that a porno film started. (I didn't ask how he knew)

So how do you know what to do? How do you know what genre you’re in? Is that how it is in the current crop of horror films? That all the teens in them just assume that they’re really in a porno film when they stupidly walk into these situations?

Wouldn’t life be easier if we just knew which genre we were in?

(unlike most horror or porno films, we had a spare tire, so we changed it ourselves and were back on the road within 15 minutes)