I was on my way to the lake one day last week, to take care of some cats, when I saw a guy walking with a dog on a leash in one hand, a guitar in the other, carrying a huge backpack. It’s not like in the middle of nowhere, but I don’t usually see people walking and wondered where he was going.
After a few hours with the cats, I left and stopped at a grocery store by the lake on my way home. Walking in there was a woman walking in the parking lot with a young toddler on her hip, what I thought were grocery bags in her hand and a young boy carrying 4 grocery bags at her side.
I could tell the bag were heavy and thought about asking if they needed help. Just then the kid set the bags down to rest or get a better grip and before I knew it, I was there picking up the bags asking if they needed help.
Turns out the woman was not carrying bags, she had a baby in a car seat thing, holding it by the handle. She told me “He started a fight for no reason”. I had no clue what she was talking about and didn’t really care, I was just helping her get to her car.
Turns out they weren’t going to the car. Turns out whoever “He” was, picked a fight for no reason and then drove off in the car. Fuckwad! Drove off and left his wife with an 8-year-old, 1½ year old and a 3-month baby?!? With groceries!
So, now she was walking to her hotel. I could see it from the grocery store. I loaded them all in my car and drove them to the hotel. At the hotel I used a luggage cart for the groceries, all the woman's bags and the baby and put them all in the elevator.
In the car the woman told me she didn’t believe in divorce. I assured her that it does indeed exist. She said as a Christian she just couldn’t divorce. I had no answer for that. The 8-year-old noticed all the Pokeman cards in the car door pocket and I told him they were now his.
Back at the grocery store, I quickly got what I needed and while I was shopping, I could hear a dog bark. I thought that was odd because typically service dogs don’t bark when they’re working.
When I left the store, who was walking across the parking lot but the guy with the dog and guitar I had seen walking a few hours before. Only now he had a dog on a leash and a guitar in one hand and a couple bags of groceries in the other.
I briefly thought perhaps I should help him, give him a ride wherever he was going. There are a lot of homeless encampments around the lake. I did not stop to help him though and wondered why. Because he was a man? Because he seemed very organized and on a mission as opposed to the woman I had just helped? Because I had met my “helpful” quota for the day? Or maybe just simply because I’m not Canadian?
50 second VERY funny video.
