I was confounded and asked my wife afterwards about it. 'At least you stopped and tried to help,' she said. I grieve to see un-parented or poorly parented kids turned adults, out in the world, alone, a bag of belongings in their hands or on their backs. And, yes, the kindness of strangers has saved my (vegetarian) bacon many a time!
Your wife was right, of course, but how could you not be torn up by that experience? Your concern for the future is well-founded. Unconscionable, the indifference to children liike her in a country as rich as ours. The TacoBell employee's refusal even to let her use a phone—policy be damned, the cop just driving away, is shocking. Both good "Christians," i'd wager. What have we come to?
So very sad my eyes sre misted, but this also brings back the many times the kindness of strangers has saved this lost girl's bacon.
I was confounded and asked my wife afterwards about it. 'At least you stopped and tried to help,' she said. I grieve to see un-parented or poorly parented kids turned adults, out in the world, alone, a bag of belongings in their hands or on their backs. And, yes, the kindness of strangers has saved my (vegetarian) bacon many a time!
Your wife was right, of course, but how could you not be torn up by that experience? Your concern for the future is well-founded. Unconscionable, the indifference to children liike her in a country as rich as ours. The TacoBell employee's refusal even to let her use a phone—policy be damned, the cop just driving away, is shocking. Both good "Christians," i'd wager. What have we come to?