after getting ice cream

... still can't get this out of my mind. After getting ice cream last night, I was getting in my car, when a lady pulls up in her Taurus behind my minivan. She apologizes for scaring me, which she didn't... then starts by saying that she was from West Columbia and didn't know her way around the area and that she needed some money to buy her baby some milk. I saw her blonde headed angelic child peering at me through the back window of her car. He was not in a child's seat and he looked very distraught. She goes on to tell me, that if I didn't have any cash that I could write a check and she could go in with me to get the milk.

In this economy, it's hard to judge whether or not if people actually are in need of food when they ask for money, or if they are wanting it for drugs or liquor. I HATED the fact that she was using her child as bait to get free cash for whatever it was she wanted to get... I HATED the fact that she didn't have her child securely strapped in the backseat and that she made me feel awful that I didn't give her anything.

I can't stop thinking about that child. I hope he's ok, where ever he is right now. I hope you are ok little one....