Heard on Springer: _ride with [someone]_ = "take care of during, share in bad times," etc.

[Wilson Gray]

Mid-twenty-ish, white female speaker to white boyfriend's other white
girlfriend:

"Are *you* going to _ride with him_, the next time he goes to prison?"

To boyfriend: "... You might infect me with a STD, sleeping with all
these other women!"

Late-twenty-ish, white male to above girlfriend:

"It's not '*all* these other women'! There's been only seven. Besides,
if *I* get an STD, you *ought* to _ride with me_ on it, if you're my
woman!"

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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