I thought this was interesting about stereotypes. [View all]

[gvstn]

I'm a 50 old man and my mother uses a wheelchair or electric scooter. Today I had lunch with her and took her over to a shopping center with a boutique she likes to go to once in a while. She had her scooter so I sat out in the car and waited for her. When she was finished, she got in the car and I disassembled the scooter to put it in the trunk. While I was doing this I saw a big SUV pull up across the lot and it had the spare tire on the back of the rear hatch and the owner had scrawled on the tire cover in big bold letters "Benghazi was Murder!". He had a DAV (Disabled Army Veteran) license plate. This was in a pretty affluent area and I thought to myself--rich Republican Obama hater.

Well, maybe it was because I was looking in his direction reading his tire cover, but this guy offers to give me a hand lifting the scooter into the trunk. This particular scooter does not disassemble very much and the main body is very heavy and awkward because it is so long. I've wished someone would offer a hand plenty of times over the years. That is the point of the story, I must have dragged one scooter or another in or out of the car 2500 times or more over the past 20 years. This guy I pre-judged was the first stranger in all that time who offered a hand. I was thinking about that this evening and have resolved to try not to be so quick to judge. I realize he could still be a rich republican Obama hater but he is also the kind of man to offer a helping hand to a stranger. I didn't see that at first glance.