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I need to stop watching horror movie documentaries late at night.
While putting groceries in my car, I started to hear a low moaning sound coming from the side of the car. The first thing I thought was that I was woefully unprepared and vulnerable for a zombie attack. I look up, and there's a girl in a grade school uniform shuffling up to me, yes, shuffling is the right descriptive for her gait, with some strange expression in her face. She continued to make moaning noises- there's no other way I can describe them. She appeared to be alone. Realizing that she was likely not an actual zombie, I didn't panic- at least, I was pretty sure.
She steps up to me and makes louder moaning sounds, she's clearly trying to tell me something, and I start to wonder if she's in some sort of trouble. Like I said, she looked dirty and alone, and she was very clearly a young girl. She holds up a crumpled sheet of paper and makes louder noises. I see the sheet of paper, and suddenly it all makes sense.
The girl was deaf, and the paper was asking me to contribute money to some sort of fundraiser for a deafness based group. I hadn't seen her using any sign language, so that was the thing that finally clued me in. I don't know any sign language myself, and being alone, the girl had no one to translate for her. I could only hope she knew how to read lips as I said and tried to gesture that I didn't have anything to give her- which was true. She lurked around my car the entire time I put up groceries and then left, I think she went into the store where hopefully some guardian or supervisor was, or at least someone who could talk to her properly.
What the fuck. You do NOT let kids wander around town, much less a parking lot at a grocery store, without proper supervision, with or without disabilities.
While putting groceries in my car, I started to hear a low moaning sound coming from the side of the car. The first thing I thought was that I was woefully unprepared and vulnerable for a zombie attack. I look up, and there's a girl in a grade school uniform shuffling up to me, yes, shuffling is the right descriptive for her gait, with some strange expression in her face. She continued to make moaning noises- there's no other way I can describe them. She appeared to be alone. Realizing that she was likely not an actual zombie, I didn't panic- at least, I was pretty sure.
She steps up to me and makes louder moaning sounds, she's clearly trying to tell me something, and I start to wonder if she's in some sort of trouble. Like I said, she looked dirty and alone, and she was very clearly a young girl. She holds up a crumpled sheet of paper and makes louder noises. I see the sheet of paper, and suddenly it all makes sense.
The girl was deaf, and the paper was asking me to contribute money to some sort of fundraiser for a deafness based group. I hadn't seen her using any sign language, so that was the thing that finally clued me in. I don't know any sign language myself, and being alone, the girl had no one to translate for her. I could only hope she knew how to read lips as I said and tried to gesture that I didn't have anything to give her- which was true. She lurked around my car the entire time I put up groceries and then left, I think she went into the store where hopefully some guardian or supervisor was, or at least someone who could talk to her properly.
What the fuck. You do NOT let kids wander around town, much less a parking lot at a grocery store, without proper supervision, with or without disabilities.