mother of the year

[LDS Jock]

Today I needed to go downtown to do some downtown kinda stuff. I had messing with parking, so I thought I would take the bus. So, while waiting at the bus stop, a woman and her four kids came to wait for the bus too. My first thought was why aren't these kids in school? The oldest was 7 or 8 years old and the youngest probably about 4. Now before I go on, let me add I don't live in that nice a part of Austin. Not horrible, but certainly a place where you take care to watch out. This woman tells her kids to wait there for the bus. She was going into the convenience store behind the bus stop. This woman left her four young children alone to wait at a city bus stop. The oldest child had a ten dollar bill and three ones pinned to his shirt. Almost like a bribe to help tempt someone to take him and the others. Five minutes later the woman returns. Her kids still around, playing along the side of Oltorf, a busy street in Austin. I couldn't believe she did it. I watched her kids to make sure they didn't do anything too wild, or to get the license number of the car stealing them. It amazed me too that the kids acted like this was the most natural thing in the world and that it happened all the time.