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Driving toward Montgomery, Alabama, late one night, two businessmen planned to spend the night in a small town on the way. They were making good time through some low country where the road was a few feet above the surrounding land when they spotted a figure far ahead. As they drew nearer they discovered that it was a little old lady walking briskly along the side of the road.
The two men said they would give her a lift as far as the next town, a two hour drive, and she was delighted to accept. She sat in the back seat and, as they drove through the night, they talked about her daughter and three grandchildren - their names, where they lived, the children's school - the usual small talk among strangers. When the subject was exhausted, the men eventually became engrossed in business conversation and forgot about the passenger behind them. When
they reached their destination, they stopped to let the elderly
lady out. She was gone. Panic-stricken to think that she might have
fallen out
along the way, they headed back in search of her. But they found no
signs
of their passenger, even though they retraced their route to where they
picked her up, and saw her tiny footprints in the shoulder of the road
where
she had first talked to them. "When was that?" they asked her, and she replied between sobs, "When she was buried, just three years ago today!" |
Written by: C. B. Colby