It is just a group of frenzied people wanting to pose with Santa at Lake Forest Park Shopping Center where she finished the shopping she couldn't get done online.
No, here's the real story: she was driving home from retrieving extra keys from the car dealer, and as she was heading up 15th NE, she spied a man in a motorized wheelchair struggling to ascend the unusually steep and narrow wheelchair ramp onto the sidewalk. He couldn't make it, and then became stuck and hovered sideways on two wheels over the curb. He had no use of any limbs and was flailing. She was ready to turn into the side street to help him, when the man in the car in front of her stopped his car on 15th, with flashers, got out to right the situation. Then a pedestrian stepped in to help. The keeper decided to use her car as a protection for the Good Samaritan and his tiny little car, so she put on her flashers. The car behind her did the same. And so on for a few more cars. No one honked. No one sped away angry. Everyone waited for the Good Samaritans to get the wheelchair bound man back on his way. Then she clapped for them, and she could see the people behind her doing the same. On such a day of crazed shoppers, it was a reminder of what this is all about.
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