Didn't think about it at the time, but yea...
running around doing errands with kids a few days ago. And they see a carnival...so we head off to it.
We are waiting at the stoplight on the corner of a very busy road and these women with their kids that are standing next to us are yelling
'Get out of the street! Lady, get out.'
I look and there is this old woman pushing a cart, obviously not coherent and she is walking in the middle of a busy street with cars honking.
The light changes and these women walk across to the carnival with their kids and don't even help.
I have my daughter and her friend buddy up and cross to the carnival and wait on the other side while I go to the old woman in the middle of the street and help her to the sidewalk where we just came from. Cars are backed up.
She doesn't speak English, I try to find out where she is going. I walk behind her as she struggles to walk and push her cart down the sidewalk just to make sure she is okay.
Then all of a sudden she starts to veer off again and heads towards the other street that is even busier and goes down the curb between parked cars and starts walking into the oncoming traffic that way.
I run and grab her cart and her hand and get her back to the curb and onto the sidewalk. She is definitely at least 80, disoriented and it seems she had cataracts as well. I don't think she could see.
The carnival was actually a Los Angeles Police Department carnival outside their station so I called my daughter and her friend on their cell phone, tell them to go to one of the policemen over there so I can talk to them.
An officer gets on the phone, I tell them what is happening.
I walk behind this woman closely for about 2 more blocks to make sure she stays on the sidewalk and then 3 cops on motorcycles pull up and try to help her. I find a Hispanic man who speaks Spanish to her and she is looking for Ralph's food market. There isn't one for miles.
She obviously was disoriented and pretty much would have gotten hit by speeding traffic.
They took care of her and I ran back to the kids.
What bothered me the most were the other women with kids who just yelled at her to get out of the street, not even bothering to help this woman who obviously had no idea where she was. That was a good example for their kids to see how their parents handled that situation, not!
Anyway, I went back to my daughter and her friend and thanked them for helping and my daughter said, 'Yea, I am glad we helped save a life today.'
I guess that is what we did.
