Humanity today will never cease to amaze me at times! It was around 5pm this rainy evening when Jamie and I were driving home. We hit the busy intersection we always do on our way home on the island. I am driving and go to make a left hand turn, as I turn my head to check for a clearing to make the left on the very busy road where although the speed limit is 35 most people are driving about 50mph. I notice to my horror a young boy erratically running in the middle of traffic bouncing between the 3 fast running roads. I yell at Jamie that there's a boy who looks autistic running in the middle of the road, without hesitation he throws off his seatbelt and is jumping out the door. Cars are bolting by, not ONE slows down they just swerve by him. A white car comes to a screeching hault just as soon as Jamie reaches him, while I pull over to the side to call 911. The white car pulls over aside to assist Jamie, cars continue to speed on by. I get off the phone with 911 and meet up with the gal in the white car, Jamie, and the boy - who is OBVIOUSLY mute and autistic (one of my BFFs has a son who is the same way). While we are waiting and going over the fear that just hit us, a gentleman comes running up the street who is thanking us profusely about holding onto him. Because the police hadn't gotten there Jamie walked him and the boy back to his house to his crying mother.
Jamie came back as soon as he knew he was safe in his house to wait for the police with me. They arrived shortly and we all went on our merry ways. All the rest of the way home Jamie and I just talked about how amazing our society can be at times. What if we had just taken the same "Someone else will deal with this situation" attitude as the 25-50 cars that just swerved by took. Would this outcome have been a different story? Would we be hearing about a far more tragic ending on the 10 o'clock news tonight? "Autistic run away boy, died in a car accident on a busy street in this posh quiet city". Seeing a distraught mother crying on tv and hearing the criticism from others of how could she let him run, not understanding the full story.
All it took was 3 people to save this boys life...and fortunately these 3 people didn't take the stance so many in today's society does!!!!
