I was on my home and was on the ramp getting off the highway. I saw a mini-van on the side of the road. There was a lady standing next to the van and in her arms she held her child. I can only assume her mini-van had broken down. I don't know, perhaps with so many gad stations being out of gas, she had also run out. I slowed down and started to pull over to offer her a ride. At the very last second I noticed a "W" sticker on the back of her vehicle and I sped up and drove off...
How nice. Where I live, it can be a long, dry space between gas stations, and you just don't leave someone alongside the road. And that's when there's not an emergency going on. Under these circumstances, anybody who would abandon someone to the roadside deserves to be staked out to an anthill.
Nobody's ever going to mistake me for a tzaddik, but I've never left somebody by the side of the road if I could help it. I've taken some hellish chances doing it, too, although God's always kept me safe. I'd like to think that if it had been me, I'd have had the back of the truck brimming with people, Republican, Kleptocrat, or National Socialist. Even that chippie with the W phobia would have been welcome. In an emergency, you just don't do anything else. From each according to his truck capacity...
[S]o many hateful thoughts went through my head. I wondered how a person could see what was going on in NO and still have one of those awful stickers on their car. How could they support an awful excuse for a human being that has let our country down and is letting Americans die after they have made it through the storm? How can someone be so blind and so stupid?
Gee, I don't know. How can they?
A/T to Tim Bayly.
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