The stores were open a bit later so I went to buy berries. Walking back home I turned onto my street and from the distance I saw an old man taking very small steps. He walked so slowly...when I had finally walked passed him he stopped me and asked me if he was close to a certain address. I could see his phone was out of battery. I pulled mine out and searched the address he had written down for him. With a few taps I knew he was six long blocks away from his home. I walked with him less than a block and when he noticed it was going to be very far he said thank you and kept heading that way but he was so slow and he couldn’t walk so well. It was nearing midnight and I could not let him go alone. Even if it would take an hour at his pace I would walk there with him but a taxi road by and I am fluent enough to say “take him here” and “ I will pay the fare” so hailed it down but the cab driver wouldn’t take him. He said “he’s not normal, he can cause me a lot of trouble” he wouldn’t take him. I walked with him arm in arm until I got to a bigger street there I hailed down another cab. I helped him into the taxi and asked to pay his fare. It was simple this time.

An old  man with a dead cell phone battery with a little paper medicine bag trying to get home.