Well I will admit this - I had a tear in my eye today and was pretty choked

A young woman about 21-ish came to my taxi on crutches - she was with her gran, but got in on her own.

I said jovially 'What happened to you then?' She then went on to explain she had a fight with a train !

I was stunned and asked her about it as I'm not bad at dealing with tricky situations.

Poor lass went on to explain she was in a dark place and decided to end it all.

Without appearing to be a perv, I told her that it was hard to comprehend that someone as pretty as her (she was lovely) and articulate (which she endorsed in my mind the more we chatted) and that surely she had everything going for her.

She told me she had had an abusive childhood and could not help feeling worthless.

This was choking me up and I said, 'If I could, I would adopt you'. She laughed at that and unfortunately our journey to the Mental Health Unit at the hospital was nearly over and I just so wanted to chat to her.

I said I hoped she would never consider that again, and she said she hoped so too - 'only hoped '

She had previously worked on a ward at the Hospital and kept getting embarrassed when she bumped into the other nurses.

I gave her my card and asked her to ring me if ever she needed a lift.

In all my years of doing the job, that was the saddest journey I had ever done, and I so hope she is ok one day and leads a happy life.

I drove away with tears in my eyes!