Saving Babies

I knew I had to buy my good friend a birthday gift last night. So I went shopping and finally found this cool twisty silver ring. I walked through the parking lot towards my car and across from it I saw a woman prancing around her Astro van. It was strange but I decided to just get in my car and reverse out of my space, especially since there were two cars waiting for my parking spot. I pull out and see the woman is frantic at this point. I start to drive away but hit the brakes. I reverse back to the woman and get off and ask her if everything is ok. My conscious beat me and wouldn't let me walk away from this situation. She doesn't seem to understand me so I speak to her in Spanish. Finally she just unleashes and starts crying. She tells me that her baby is locked inside her van and so are her keys. She accidentally closed the door and the automatic locks went off and locked her out. I get close to the van and I can hear the baby crying. I panic.

A guy approaches us and asks if we need him to call AAA. I tell him yes and try to pry her windows open. The woman continues to go around her van, crying and yelling to her baby that she'll be there. She breaks off her antennae and hands it over to me. Still no luck. Finally the security guard drives up. We ask him to help but once he realized there was a baby inside he said it was against policy for him to get involved and that he had to call the police. The baby continues to cry and so does the woman. AAA says they won't be able to arrive till 30 minutes later. I finally put my thinking cap on decide to ask if it's okay to break the window since it seemed like the best option. The last thing I wanted is for this non English speaking woman to get arrested for child endangerment and/or neglect. I hand over a metal tool (from my tool kit in my car) to the guy who called AAA. I tell him, "break the window"! He's dubmfounded especially since the security guard yelled at us and told us not to get involved. He said it's against policy and that's when I had to remind him we're not employees of the parking structure and that we are private citizens and can do as we please. The crying woman begs for us to break the window. The confused guy looks at me for direction and I tell him to break the window. After a couple of blows to the window it finally shatters in a layer. The woman climbs in and saves her baby.

The security guard backs down and says that the police are on their way. I hug the woman and tell her to go home.

Just to think of how many people passed this poor woman up and never stopped to ask if she needed some help. This is the type of world we are living in. It's a very sad reality. It doesn't hurt to ask and maybe you could be saving a baby, someday.