What would you do if you saw a man laying on the sidewalk?

[pipi_k]

30. I suppose if I had gotten used

to seeing him on the sidewalk, I probably would have walked by myself.

Then, as you did, feel terrible when someone else stopped and it turned out he was bleeding.

I think most of us have moments that haunt us...things we didn't do that we could have.

About two months ago Mr Pipi and I were doing our usual Sunday breakfast at this tiny restaurant in town...on a main State highway. In walked a woman, in her late 70s, maybe, asking how she could back to Syracuse, NY.

WTF????

I am in Western Mass, about +/- 50 miles to the east of Albany, NY.

This poor woman wants to get to Syracuse???

Well, the owner, who is also in his 70s, is trying to explain to the woman how to take the main road to the turnpike which will get her going in the right direction, anyway. No dice. She looked terribly puzzled. She walked out, got in her car, then promptly forgot the directions she had been given and headed up a side street, turned around, and was flagged down by the restaurant owner who told her to how to get back out on the main road.

After it was over, I felt awful...like, someone...myself...should have asked her for a family member's phone number to call. Or maybe even call the police to come down and see what they could do. Instead of turning this poor woman out to more than likely get lost again.

It haunted me for days.