Should she use her car? Someone else's? Steal one? Take one from the garage?
-- How about in terms of self-defense? Mace is useless against a vampire, right? Should she take a stake? She doesn't know how to use one. This guy is a friend, though. Is she going to have to defend herself at all?
In fact, she agonizes over these decisions so much that she's ten minutes late.
She rushes out of the car she borrowed from the garage, sprints into the restaurant.
Pauses.
Registers the fact that she saw someone outside.
Turns around, and pushes the door back open.
This man's face looks familiar to her. She can't quite seem to place it.