Too Late

This morning, my bus was just starting to pull away from a stop when a girl ran up alongside, calling, “Wait!” A bunch of people on the bus called out on her behalf: “Hold it!” “Wait!” but the bus driver, after a moment of hesitation, put his foot down hard on the pedal and pulled away from the stop. I felt sorry for the girl, who would never know that she had a bus-full of advocates. Such is the way of the world – it doesn’t matter how many people you have on your side if they are powerless.