Children & Stop Lights! Watchout!
Today is a special day here in Fresno. Valley Children's Hospital here in north Fresno has a fund raiser today. It's a special edition of the local paper; the Fresno Bee. For a $1 gift you can get the edition and give to support the hospital. It's a good thing.
The problem is - youth are selling (distributing) the papers at every corner and stoplight in the city. When you approach, they are yelling at the top of their lungs for you to buy a paper. When you stop at the light, they approach your car like a herd of window washers wanting money for the service. Even if you have a paper, which you purchased, in your car, displayed proudly on the dashboard, they call out for you to buy another.
Then, the light turns green - cars begin to move, but no - we can't move because someone is digging for a dollar, trying to finish the transaction before the light turns and children are in the way of cars trying to get to work on time.
I'm confused - is this a good thing really? To have youth selling papers to earn money for a Children's Hospital while standing on a turning curb 2 feet from a speeding car, and then darting through traffic at stop lights? Makes me wonder if any children wind up in the hospital today because of the Hospital's newspaper fund-raiser. I hope not.
Blessings, --RB
The problem is - youth are selling (distributing) the papers at every corner and stoplight in the city. When you approach, they are yelling at the top of their lungs for you to buy a paper. When you stop at the light, they approach your car like a herd of window washers wanting money for the service. Even if you have a paper, which you purchased, in your car, displayed proudly on the dashboard, they call out for you to buy another.
Then, the light turns green - cars begin to move, but no - we can't move because someone is digging for a dollar, trying to finish the transaction before the light turns and children are in the way of cars trying to get to work on time.
I'm confused - is this a good thing really? To have youth selling papers to earn money for a Children's Hospital while standing on a turning curb 2 feet from a speeding car, and then darting through traffic at stop lights? Makes me wonder if any children wind up in the hospital today because of the Hospital's newspaper fund-raiser. I hope not.
Blessings, --RB
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