A few years ago I was waiting at a stoplight and a guy was trying to get my attention. He was dressed *okay* and didn't look threatening so I rolled the window down and asked him what he wanted. He asked if I was going to Q street and I said yeah and told him jump in. So we're going down the road and he says he's going to a job interview at Safeway. We get up to Q street and I pull into the Safeway parking lot and let him out. He asks if I can spare a little money and I give him $2.
So I'm driving home which is only a few blocks from Safeway and I'm thinking about this, and when I make the final turn onto my street I kind of rolled through the stop, right in front of a cop, who pulls me over immediately. He comes to my window and says "you rolled right through the stop sign right in front of me, what were you thinking?" and I told him "yeah, I'm sorry, I was kind of preoccupied." "Preoccupied with what?" he asks. So I told him about how I saw this guy downtown and gave him a ride (which I almost never do) and gave him a couple of bucks to help him out and I was thinking about how we really are our brother's keeper.
He kinda looks at me for a few seconds and says "well, just be more careful" and let me go.