Runaway Future

(One of the many Tony Pierce rules for blogging is not to apologize for not writing, so I won’t)

I saw something today that really bothered me.

I went to the mall and was coming from Wal-Mart heading towards the bus terminal. On that narrow strip of sidewalk between the Wal-Mart parking lot and the bus lanes is a light pole. And walking around that light pole was an old woman.

Around and around, she had a walker, and just kept circling the light pole. No one around, just this woman, alone, circling a light pole.

It stuck out as something that isn’t normal. No normal people, elderly or not, continously circle inanimate objects, like it was some sort of mission.

I didn’t know what to do. So I jumped on the bus and off we went. Strangely enough, running didn’t solve my own little voice of something being not right.

So I got in touch with my sister and asked her to get in touch with the police.

And that’s where my story ends. I don’t know what happened after that. Hopefully someone was able to be there for her.