premise: I suppose I should have thanked God that she had n't died in the middle of the Idaho mountains . She had the mechanics puzzled and I ended up staying another night at a reduced rate courtesy of the Comfort Inn 's " stranded car " policy . The shuttle driver of the inn blithely informed me that he 'd gotten stranded here five years ago and never left . Who or what nearly died in the middle of the Idaho mountains ?
hypothesis: The writer .