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Date Posted: 10:24:06 07/14/01 Sat
Author: Marlene
Author Host/IP: 64.24.217.27
Subject: Our sad world

After dinner last night (still light outside) I took Mack for his walk. We went out to the Jr. College where we often go. As I parked the car by the baseball field I saw an older lady with a small suitcase, a backpack and a bottle of water, talking to the campus security guard. The lady didn't exactly look homless, but she was a little disheveled and looked like she had been outdoors a great deal. She also looked worried.
Mack and I began our walk and when we were over by the buildings we ran into the guard who was checking doors. I asked her if she was the one talking to the lady down by the field and asked if the lady was all right - she was definitely "out of place" where she was. The guard said the lady needed to get to a town about 30 miles south of here where she had a place to stay and left it at that.
I couldn't stop thinking about her and that "there, but for the grace of God, go I" and my first inclination was to see what I could do. But, sadly, my second inclination was that she could be dangerous in some way.
We finished our walk and when I got back in the car, she was still there - sitting on her little red suitcase and looking out at the road (she was not in a place anywhere near to where she could get a ride.) I don't have a cell phone, so couldn't even offer to make a call for her.
On the drive home I decided to get my husband and come back - we could certainly afford the time and the gas to take her to where she had a place to stay. The Big Guy said, "No, we're not going to do that" and I said "Yes we are - c'mon, let's just go talk to her........" So, of course I won because I told him I would go back without him!
Anyway, when we got back......she was gone. I have no idea where she went.
When I was a child, in the small town I lived in - my Mother would have given this old lady a ride without thinking twice about it. I just hate it that we have to be so afraid of strangers nowadays and can't act on kind instincts without weighing the negatives.

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