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ORIGINAL: sub4hire

Everyone gave you excellent advice.  For the future you should get involved in at least one of the man Austin groups there are.
Then you won't ever have to worry again about a safe call.

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

great link Tasha :)

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After a few of these types of calls, they are treated, by the police, much like the little boy who cried wolf!
I ask for a third time, How does this keep Wendy safe?
The cold hard answer is "IT DOESN'T"! 
Safe calls do absolutely nothing to keep people safe! They may however aid the police department after they find your dismembered body stuffed in a trash can in getting a conviction. Knowing personal information about the last person known to have seen a victim is a good lead. It helps a lot, and Law Enforcement needs all our help! It does nothing at all to keep poor Wendy safe! What it does, is gives her a false sense of security. It leads her to the illusion that she is safe. It empowers her to decide to meet a stranger because her girl friend or the Safe Call Network has his particulars, and hers! But she is NOT at all SAFE

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  Yeah - i agree, safe calls are giving someone a false sense of security.

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

That isn't what a safe call is. 
A safe call is when my friend tells the guy that she will meet him at a certain place at a certain time, and I am just around the corner, waiting for her to call regularly and say she is still OK while they talk...then they leave separately. 

Yes, some Hannibal Lechter type super-predator could have already rendered her zombie like with invisible mist from a rare South American potion, and smuggled a battery powered surgical saw into the restaurant to carry the pieces of her body out through the tunnel he dug beneath their table 3 days earlier, and I wouldn't be able to help her...

Get real people, precautions minimize risk, they don't make things risk free.... anyone who advises against taking precautions because they aren't 100% guaranteed, isn't on your side.

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

Both of those are using the 'false sense of security' label, which is commonly understood as meaning not to bother with it.

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ORIGINAL: apiercedkitty

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

That isn't what a safe call is. 
A safe call is when my friend tells the guy that she will meet him at a certain place at a certain time, and I am just around the corner, waiting for her to call regularly and say she is still OK while they talk...then they leave separately. 

Yes, some Hannibal Lechter type super-predator could have already rendered her zombie like with invisible mist from a rare South American potion, and smuggled a battery powered surgical saw into the restaurant to carry the pieces of her body out through the tunnel he dug beneath their table 3 days earlier, and I wouldn't be able to help her...

Get real people, precautions minimize risk, they don't make things risk free.... anyone who advises against taking precautions because they aren't 100% guaranteed, isn't on your side.

Did ya miss the OP saying she "doesn't really know anyone around here?"
That was what i was referring to and, just a question... when you're the safe call, does the person REALLY interrupt their conversation to call you? And, if so, does she leave the person she's sitting with or does she do it in front of him? And, how long after she was supposed to call do you go looking. And, if you went looking and she wasn't there, what would you do? i'm just sayin here. You don't think a smooth talking guy has ever gotten a woman into his car?
i never said don't take any risks. If i had, i might have suggested she invite him to her house in the secluded wilderness. Don't try to put words in my mouth please.