Senerio Sunday: Compassionate Thieves?
Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7:59AM Welcome to Senerio Sunday, everyone!
Senerio for today: You are a young, single mother, struggling to just keep food on the table for you and your four-year-old son. You have several goals: 1. To go one entire month without an ER visit to treat your son's asthma. 2. To make sure he has money for two upcoming field trips with his class. 3. To work enough this week to get the rent paid which is already a few days behind. 4. To get more than four hours sleep, which is all you've averaged in the last week. 5. To scrounge up some loose change to splurge on some orange juice because you feel run down and like you might be coming down with something--which you can't afford to be sick. You can't miss another day of work or you will lose your job.
When you don't have enough change for orange juice, you, along with your son, stop at the bank to try and bleed just another $5 from your practically empty account. Suddenly, there are men wearing jumpsuits and masks, robbing the bank, forcing everyone to sit against the wall and wear blindfolds. It is a terrifying, unending experience. Yet, during the course of the situation when your son has an asthma attack, one robber (although he doesn't allow you to see him) cares for your son and makes sure your son gets his medication, saving his life. When the robbery is over with the robbers escaping with an undisclosed amount of money, you and your son are held at the police department (again feeling like hostages). Exhausted, hungry, worried about your son, you feel the police are treating you worse than the robbers especially when all of the witnesses' stories seem to conflict and give the police no definite leads. You finally get home, feed your son and put him to bed.
Hidden in the bottom of your son's backback, you find two stacks of the stolen bank money. What do you do with it?