I watched Ashely all day yesterday (we had so much fun!). And driving home in the evening, we had one of the worst storms I had seen in quite a while. The thunder, lightning, with rain that was leaving giant lakes all over the roads, was kind of scary to be driving in. There were cars that were stranded in these lakes (temporarily, they probably went a way after the rain settled down a little bit). But all this was kind of scary none the less. As I'm driving down one road, I saw two teens, a boy and a girl probably around 18 or so. As I'm passing them very slowly to not drench them with water, even though they are already drenched, they gave me this pleading look asking to get a ride to wherever they were going. My initial reaction was to stop because it was awful to drive in that, I can't imagine walking in it. But immediately after that my heart skipped a beat and the thought of bringing these strangers into my car with my precious Melody in it, was not even an option. I kept going and watched the defeated looks of them in the rear view mirror. It breaks my heart that we live in that kind of a world, but we do. I could never imagine having one poor decision affecting the life of my daughter. Part of me (as I was ridden with guilt, even though I knew it was the right decision) kept saying that they were kids, how dangerous could they be. But we hear it in the news all the time about these things happening. Anyway, it just made me sad that I had to leave these 2 kids to suffer the rain, thunder and lightning while I had a car with room for them.
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