ekardh
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See, to me this is exactly where theories like this unravel. Remember, Jason had a very clear, specific purpose in walking to the high school at that moment, and looking at it from his perspective, his agenda didn't leave any margin for error. He was due to meet the co-worker at the school at 11:15 AM, and he left his house sometime after 10:45. So it's hard to understand why/how he would get distracted from this very definite course by getting into somebody else's car. He would have known he was pushing it, time-wise. To make this work at this point, I assume most people imagine that this unknown driver agreed that he himself would give Jason a ride to Fazzoli's (of course this doesn't resolve anything about why he would flake out on the ride from the original co-worker). But it just gets more bizarre when you try to add in some new detour—like the unknown driver getting Jason to go inside a house or whatever—because it's just adding more time onto the clock, and making Jason later and later for work. Wouldn't anybody in such a situation respond: "no, buddy, I can't go over to your house and help you mount the t.v. on the wall, because, like I told you, I'm running late for work." So this is the general reason I tend to assume that, within this hypothetical scenario, something happened to Jason more-or-less immediately after he got into the car.
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I don't think this scenario is quite as implausible as you make out.
We've heard that apparently Jason was a good-natured, trusting young man and depending on how impressionable he was, and the kind of relationship he had with this hypothetical individual, he might have agreed to a quick detour to help them out. Jason was planning to start a new job next week anyway, so did it matter too much if he was a little late at Fazoli's?
Person offers Jason a ride to work, Jason consents, person has to stop at his house quickly to get something, invites Jason inside under false pretenses... and you know the rest. Compared to some of the theories posited in this thread, it's really not 'out there'.