On An Empty Street

 

 

 

 

“Officer RD! Officer RD! Do you miss me?”

 

It is Lily. She’s 58 going on 72. She’s tweaking, speaking as fast as her toothless mouth can move.

 

Hello, Lily. How are you doing?

 

She shotguns out sentences in a handful of sections.

 

“Can you call the shelter for me? I am going to be late and I don’t want to lose my spot!”

 

I can give you a ride.

 

“Oh thank you, but I don’t want to be seen in the back of a cop car. “

 

What time do you need to be there?

 

“Twelve-Fifteen. “

 

Well, it’s twelve-twelve now, you better get going.

 

“I can’t walk that far. “

 

Well, I offered you a ride.

 

She says, “What if I lay down in your back seat. No one will see me. Will that be okay?

 

Yes.

 

“Then, can you drop me off around the corner, so no one will see me?”

 

Sure.

 

She jumps bin the backseat and thanks me for dropping her off on an empty street.

 

 

 

Comments

[fritz]

That was a good deed.

On another note:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, on Tuesday signed a bill that no longer requires any "able-bodied person 18 years of age or older" in the state to help an officer who requests assistance during an arrest.

The Sacramento Bee reported that the old law, the California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872, was common in the country’s early days, but Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Los Angeles Democrat who sponsored the bill, called the old law a “vestige of a bygone era." The law was employed to help catch runaway slaves, the report said.

The old law made it a misdemeanor that carried a fine of up to $1,000 for refusing to help a police officer who requested assistance during an arrest.

The report said Newsom did not issue a statement after signing the bill.