Maria and Brynne experienced a truly weird occurrence today. They were out shopping, stopped at Panera to eat, and as they were leaving, a running car with no one behind the wheel rolled into them, causing a little damage.

They took pictures of the car and the license plate and then went inside to try and find the owner. It was difficult to explain this “ghost car” to the manager. A non-native person ran out, tried to get in the car, and drive away. Luckily, he was stopped. Maria tried to get insurance info, but he did not have any. She tried to get his name and number, but he did not want to give it because he was obviously in the States illegally.

She said he was obviously frightened. Ultimately, he touched her arm, said, “Why don’t we call it even,” got in the car, and drove away to a stunned Maria and Brynne. Maria felt like she was in a moral predicament because she wanted to be sympathetic to the guy. I said, if he had given her $100 and said let’s call it even and drove away I would have been good. She said that if he had just said sorry, it would have been enough.

As it stood, she had to call the police and file a report.