I'm driving over to the 7:30 a.m. morning mass at Our Lady of Mercy for Lent the other day. On the road behind Citizens Bank I see a red SUV rolling through a stop sign ahead of me. It's one of those deals where the driver slows from 35 to 10 and considers that sufficiently immobile.
I turn right toward the church, and the SUV is discharging a kid, maybe 9, in front of the school across the street. The vehicle barely stops, and the kid is out — wearing jeans and a short-sleeved tee-shirt on a damp, dank, cold morning. The SUV takes off and the kid apparently finds himself confronted with a locked door, so he dodgedly begins walking around the corner to find another means of entry. I figure he eventually got in because I didn't see him frozen to death on the sidewalk when I left church.
Not only can't we stop at intersections, but apparently we can't stop long enough to see if our kid can get safely into a building when he's dressed to be in Palm Beach though living in East Greenwich. We rush madly around all day trying to save 20 mintutes that we don't know what to do with once we have it.
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I remember a black Escalade racing down Divison once at what had to be over 50 mph. Where did it wind up? At OLM, apparently with a driver so worried about missing the opening of services that running down something along the way was a minor concern.
People say we should "stop and think." Maybe we should think about stopping.
