I’m flabbergasted at what lengths people will go to to cover the truth.  Today after a harrowing trip to the grocery store with both kids (now I remember why I always prefer to go alone) I witnessed a middle-aged woman pull in to a parking spot and smash into the car directly in front of her.  I sat and watched her from inside my car, not wanting to get out after wrestling both kids back into their carseats, waiting to see what she would do.

So, she got out of her car, went to look at the bumper she had just hit, and walked to the end of her car where she stood thinking about something.  She turned around, got back in her car,  and though I thought she was going to get something out of her car to write a note to the other driver, she pulled her car out, and re-parked two spaces away!!!  What in the world?  I memorized her license plate number just in case the damage was bad and pulled out of my space to drive around to look at the innocent bumper that had been hit.

Luckily it really looked like no damage more than a minor scratch was done.  But here’s the thing.  Tell the truth, people!!!  Didn’t your mother teach you that even if you took something from a store when you were a kid, that you would have to go back into the store and apologize?  Or that if you told a lie, no matter how big or small, a lie is a lie and you would need to admit it and make things right where they were made wrong?  Didn’t your mothers teach you right from wrong?  Because if I remember correctly, when I learned to drive, if I had done something like this my parents would have made me at least leave a note.  And they would have definitely disagreed with me trying to hide my error by moving my car.

This disturbs me on several levels really.  The woman driving the car was driving a jaguar, and the car she hit was an H3.  I’m assuming that both drivers have plenty of insurance and money to cover a small fender bender like this.  And the woman was middle-aged for crying out loud!  She should know better.

So there it is- my indignation over the lack of morals and cloudiness of right and wrong that seems to pervade our society.  Sorry for the rant, I just couldn’t believe it.  Note to my children when you are older: Mom will make you leave a note if you hit someone’s car.  What you do with the small errors of life shape how you will handle the bigger things that come your way later.