Lilly Sway

I was a bit chilled this morning on the regular school run and soon found myself launched into the regular hustle and bustle of the day. It really was a little bit colder than you would normally find in Texas this time of year, but not a new thing. As I made my way from one school to the other I noticed that there was a long slow traffic jam at the stop where a three way intersection is. I pulled into the parking lot of the church where this intersection was backed up. I cracked the window to hear the horns and the impatience of people to busy and caught up in there routine to notice what was really going on. People were swerving around one another just to come to a complete stop only one car length from where they were to begin with.

I was stuck in that parking lot, as so were many others. I began to asses the situation to find that in a distance I could see that there was a car with two people inside. These two individuals in the front seat of their car were  stopped In the middle of the cross way. By the looks of the car line it did not seem as if it was going to start back up. These two individuals were elderly and had not the strength in my opinion to move the vehicle. I asked if I could help, they said that they had called for a wrecker and thank you anyway. Then they quickly rolled up their window. I tapped on the window again and offered to them a proposition, which was, since I have a car full of teens going to school and I knew that they would be happy to help me push the car out of the cross way would  they allow us to. all the while people honking and yelling obscenities.

The man said hey that would be great and so I ran back to my vehicle to get the 6 teens and soon we had cleared the cross way and traffic started to move along. I was not in a hurry and could see that the older couple were truly embarrassed of the whole situation, as if they could control fate. They said how grateful they were and I finally  was on my way like the rest, but before I left the parking lot the woman from the car patted my back and with a tear in her eye.  I did not mean to close the window so fast before when you first came to our car. We were afraid and thought they would never stop honking and yelling at us. Thank you so much for just being a descent bunch of people. Before, as we pushed the car out of the way to the same parking lot that I had parked in we heard “Hey you, get out of the way,  Move it or loose it,  Get one that works, Thanks a lot you idiots”, and I guess you get the picture. The older woman said that her husband had asked for help to push it out of the way but that people were just to much in a hurry to help.

I waved and got the kids to school just in time for the bell, and when I came back by the stop sign there was the wrecker pulling out of the church with the car, All is well, or is it? I could not seem to dismiss the instant anger that those people so readily expressed and what if it had been them? what would they have done? My stomach felt upset at the fear the woman had in her eyes, for goodness sake what other things had people yelled at them? I am truly upset why can we not give people the benefit of the doubt? Could they really entertain the thought that these people would block the cross way “intentionally”?

I came home and backed my car into the driveway to avoid the north winds direct path to my vehicle motor, or so I thought. I really backed up into my driveway to avoid the angry cold people that may have the unfortunate luck of being stuck behind me on a cold morning if my car was not functioning properly.

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Lilly’s Way