Shattered
“There were lots of cars and people … regular people—couples walking hand in hand, and groups walking along the sidewalk, going to or from restaurants or the theatre or maybe the movies or shopping. We had travelled only about five blocks but we’d left behind one world and entered another—one much more familiar to me.
Mac had offered to stay and wait with me for my ride, but I told him to go on his way. He still had to finish his rounds. I’d used my cellphone to call home and I’d spoken to Berta. My parents still weren’t home and she was on her way down to get me.
I watched the cars driving by. Half of them had bluish lights. Those were the type that expensive luxury cars like Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, and a dozen other types of prestige cars all had. It was amazing how many expensive cars there were—how many people had so much money to spend. And as I stood there watching and waiting I wondered—how many of those people driving in those expensive cars passed by the parks and alleys where ...the homeless were sitting or shuffling or sleeping, and never knew that there was anybody outside of the climate-controlled, leather-seated, CD surround sound that encircled them?MoreLess
Mac had offered to stay and wait with me for my ride, but I told him to go on his way. He still had to finish his rounds. I’d used my cellphone to call home and I’d spoken to Berta. My parents still weren’t home and she was on her way down to get me.
I watched the cars driving by. Half of them had bluish lights. Those were the type that expensive luxury cars like Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, and a dozen other types of prestige cars all had. It was amazing how many expensive cars there were—how many people had so much money to spend. And as I stood there watching and waiting I wondered—how many of those people driving in those expensive cars passed by the parks and alleys where ...the homeless were sitting or shuffling or sleeping, and never knew that there was anybody outside of the climate-controlled, leather-seated, CD surround sound that encircled them?MoreLess
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