Been a Bad Week

   

A bigger understatement you'll be hard-pressed to find.

    I was speaking with my daughter this morning.  She told me that, one day last week while driving to her mother-in-law's with her two-year-old daughter, she passed an elderly gentleman attempting to wave her down.  She wondered whether he was in some sort of distress and needed help.  She wondered if she should stop.

    She did not.  

    Perhaps, in years past, she may have.  But not now.  Not in today's day and age.  

    She told me that she felt a twinge of guilt that she didn't.  However, she couldn't risk anything happening to her daughter.  I told her that I was very happy that she didn't stop.  After all, she was my daughter.  I told her that she did the absolute right thing.  The best thing to do is that she could call the police and inform them that an older gentleman apparently needed some help.  They would then render aid, if necessary.

    Likewise, if someone approached her, say, in a parking lot requesting assistance, she should tell them they both could go back into the store to call for help.  Never, never accompany them (even if they look like a kindly old man or woman) to their vehicle.

Because this.

    There are far too many stories of innocuous looking people luring young women into situations from which they cannot escape.

    Luckily, she said, she recognizes potential danger when she sees it.

After all, her favorite TV series is Criminal Minds

    That's my girl.

    In a week that saw the senseless murders of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk, the world continues to be a very dangerous place.

And the fact that people are openly cheering his assassination
tells me it won't get any better anytime soon.

    In fact, I fear that it will get worse before it gets better.

    Until then, smart people will keep passing those trying to wave them to stop.

    And that is a damn shame.