sidetracked...

i'm easily sidetracked. i meant to go home half an hour ago (yes...i really do have a home, i just don't ever use it because it's an hour from school [where i have to be every day]) i got distracted writing a blog...not this one, a different one. then i decided to go to the rec center to see if i could get tickets for the football game on saturday (to watch the marching band :) ahead of time. then i got really distracted.

on my way to the rec center, i came across three young boys. they had been biking and one of them fell, scraping his knee pretty badly. when i come across situations like this a strange conflict rises in me. this is the conflict between my momish side that says "HELP!" and my social worker/teacher side that says "maintain appropriate social distance and certainly don't look like you care too much."

it makes me sad that this is my reaction. it makes me sad that i don't feel that i can help people or care about people because it might be viewed negatively because there are so many people who only want to take advantage of others. but setting that aside, i was now very distracted from my mission to get football tickets.

eventually, i did take the boys to safety services to get bandaids...though they couldn't give out any alcohol or neosporin for fear that they would get sued (...really? again, people aren't allowed to help other people anymore! so sad) and i did go to the rec center...but i didn't get football tickets. now, i'm going home after getting sidetracked for the fourth time. :-)