Re: Selective Blindness?

Posted by Steve@Advance on March 28, 2020 at 21:18:47 from (66.169.147.211):

In Reply to: Selective Blindness? posted by RedMF40 on March 28, 2020 at 20:03:54:

Hard to say why people do what they do.

It’s certainly nothing new, think of the parable of the Good Samataran in Luke.

I’m just as guilty, I typically don’t stop at accidents unless I see a real need. If others are already there, I assume they have it under control and I will just
be in the way and told to move on.

It’s fear of involvement, most people have the same mindset. Someone else will be better qualified, or they might do something wrong. Probably the
person is drunk or on drugs, might be combative and doesn’t want help...

The excuses are easy and they pop in my head quickly. Next thing I’m already past, so maybe next time.

I’ve tried to help a few strangers in need, some with success, some without.

One in particular, a very frail elderly man standing in the middle of the service road, hot summer day, cars driving around him with no regard.

I stopped, he got in, just looked at me like “do I know you?”

He told me he lived up there, pointing to a side road tha lead to a trailer park.

So off we go, looking for his house. Except nothing looked familiar...

He didn’t know his address, anyone’s phone number. I finally concluded he was probably an alzimer victim. I asked if he had any identification,he
handed me a wallet that must have had $10,000 in it! His ID showed a Minnesota address. He then started telling me stories of his working days.

I decided this was more than I could handle, knew there was a rest stop near where I had picked him up, so I went back that way to find a pay phone to
call the police, maybe someone was looking for him.

Sure enough, they were. He had wandered away from the rest stop. I turned him over to the search party, hopfully all turned out well.

Did I help, or delay? Who knows, at least I got him off the street before he got run over!

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