I had a very disturbing incident happen on Friday on the drive home from work.

About halfway home at an intersection waiting for the protected turn, I was the first car in line.

While waiting for the light I noticed a young girl cross the street right in front of me. She must have been about 9 or 10 years old.

I didn’t pay much attention until I noticed a small brown item fall from her purse/bag she was carrying and fall to the ground directly beside my passenger front bumper.

If I would have had my pickup, I would have rolled down the window and yelled to the girl that she dropped something. But I didn’t, I had my car. And the power window on my car does not work on the driver’s side.

This means that I would have had to get out of the vehicle to get the young girl’s attention. I strained over the steering wheel to try to discover exactly what had fallen free onto the ground and my best guess was that it was some type of protective case for a phone or possibly an mp3 player.

I reached for the door handle to get out and either get the girl’s attention or grab the item and catch up with the girl at the next block once the light turned green.

Then it hit me. How soon would it take someone to phone in to the cops that a car without plates (I just bought it) is trying to sollicite the attention of an minor and obviously a very young female minor.

I froze without opening the door and about the same time the light turned green. I continued on my drive home, leaving the object in the rearview mirror along with every other driver behind me.

On the rest of the way home it really bothered me that I could not / did not help this girl, that for all I know just lost her new phone that she saved for all summer…

It is a sick world we live in when you have to worry about getting accused of such atrocities for a simple act of kindness.