This story taken from
Buddhist Boot Camp is a PERFECT illustration for Step 6 of Karen Armstrong's book, "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life" -- ACTION. We'll be discussing this at our next session of the book study at Oblate School of Theology on Thursday, March 21.
The streetlight turned yellow, so he stopped his car at the crosswalk
instead of accelerating through the intersection to beat the red light.
The woman who was driving behind him got really angry and started honking
her horn. She was extremely mad that she missed her chance to cross the
intersection behind him (and because stopping the car made everything
on her lap drop to the floor: cell phone, makeup, and half a sandwich).
She was still in the middle of yelling and cussing at the man in front
of her when she heard a tap on her window and looked up to see the face
of a very serious police officer. He ordered her to exit the vehicle
with her hands up and took her down to the police station to be
searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.
After a couple of hours, she was escorted back to the booking desk
where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal belongings.
"I'm very sorry for this mistake. When I pulled up behind your car, you
were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you, and
cussing up a storm. But it didn't make sense... You have the 'What Would
Jesus Do' license plate frame on the car, the 'Namaste' decal on the
back window, and the 'Coexist' bumper sticker, so I figured you had
stolen the car. My Bad!"
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