Something happened yesterday that made me a little sad. Something I've seen before. A long time ago, when I was maybe fourteen years old, I was in Vermont on vacation with my family. We were driving along, when we spotted a woman in a minivan broken down in the middle of a busy street. My father, my brother and I immediately got out of the car and went to help her. While she steered, we pushed her car and we were able to get her car out of the way until a tow truck arrived. What bothered me about this whole incident was as we were helping this poor woman, all of these drivers were going by yelling and cursing her out. "Get your f___ing car out of road!" At one point about a dozen cars in a row drove by shouting stuff like that. I couldn't help but think, "Are we really the only ones who are willing to help this poor woman? She didn't do this on purpose. Her car broke down on her." Humanity made me sad that day.
Well, last night I was in the car with Galen and our roommate Icy. We were on our way to the gym when we saw a guy broken down in the middle of a big intersection. The three of us got out to help, but also, just like I remembered from before, all the other cars were just driving by, cursing him out. He was very grateful to us for our help, but once again, I was disappointed with humanity. I ask of everyone that reads this. If you see something like this on the road, don't get angry and don't curse out the driver. Hop out and help. Or, in the very least, if you are in a terrible rush and the traffic has put you behind schedule, just drive on by and don't make an already stressful situation worse.