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Driving home in the rain we saw an elderly woman with a walking frame trying to get her trash bin up over the kerb and into her driveway.

He jumped out and carried it for her, and I had to drive around the block to pick him up again. Maybe two minutes.

We drove on and right there: an accident that would have happened just two minutes previously. Two cars, people on their phones, cops coming, a moment of wrong judgment, days in pieces.

#smallstories