Larry and I were out driving Tucson today taking pictures of houses. Fortunately nobody called the police on us. His great-grandmother was the first female to Homestead in her own name in Tucson. There's even a street named after her. She and her family built bunches of homes several of which are still around.
So we're heading to the last house and we were at the intersection of River Road and Grant. Anyone who knows Tucson will recognize that it's a really big, busy intersection. We were in the turn lane about 9 or 10 cars back. A blind gentleman attempted to cross the street from left to right in the crosswalk. He got as far as the left turn lane and had veered a little and ran into the first car in the turn lane and got turned around. Not one person got out and helped him. Then the light turned green and he was caught in the middle between oncoming traffic and the traffic turning. I was flabbergasted. Larry put the truck in park, stopped and ran up in to the light past all the cars and got him across the road with cars honking at him all the way. I know there are a lot of scammers out there but this guy was most definitely blind. And when traffic started streaming all around him, he was scared to death.
Next thing I know Larry is leading him to our truck. Come to find out he's only been in town about a month and was actually living about 6 miles down on Grant. He'd been heading in the wrong direction. He said he had asked several people where he was over the course of the past couple of hours and no one would give him the time of day and he was totally lost. Now granted he was missing most of his teeth and after we dropped him off we lysoled the truck cause he didn't smell real good. But I just couldn't believe no one could be bothered to get the poor guy out of the intersection.
I sure do love my hubby! OK, end of my rant. I feel much better. Thanks y'all for listening.
So we're heading to the last house and we were at the intersection of River Road and Grant. Anyone who knows Tucson will recognize that it's a really big, busy intersection. We were in the turn lane about 9 or 10 cars back. A blind gentleman attempted to cross the street from left to right in the crosswalk. He got as far as the left turn lane and had veered a little and ran into the first car in the turn lane and got turned around. Not one person got out and helped him. Then the light turned green and he was caught in the middle between oncoming traffic and the traffic turning. I was flabbergasted. Larry put the truck in park, stopped and ran up in to the light past all the cars and got him across the road with cars honking at him all the way. I know there are a lot of scammers out there but this guy was most definitely blind. And when traffic started streaming all around him, he was scared to death.
Next thing I know Larry is leading him to our truck. Come to find out he's only been in town about a month and was actually living about 6 miles down on Grant. He'd been heading in the wrong direction. He said he had asked several people where he was over the course of the past couple of hours and no one would give him the time of day and he was totally lost. Now granted he was missing most of his teeth and after we dropped him off we lysoled the truck cause he didn't smell real good. But I just couldn't believe no one could be bothered to get the poor guy out of the intersection.
I sure do love my hubby! OK, end of my rant. I feel much better. Thanks y'all for listening.
