In a lot of ways, Saturday is kind of our default time for frantically catching up with stuff we missed the rest of the week. Errands, kids, parents, paperwork, schoolwork, mortal spats: The rules of engagement command our attention to all these and more, and Saturday thus becomes the province of the sleep-deprived. Many biblical scholars regard Sunday as the seventh day of the week, when God rested. His excuse? We imagine he was plum tuckered from all that overtime on the sixth. So it was for one overtaxed La Jolla woman, whose recent Saturday trek across Girard Avenue would end in a case in point. She trudged the crosswalk like an acrobat, carrying two gigantic bags full of what sounded like glass containers \u2013 and the contents would be made public as she reached the other side of the street. She\u2019d lost her footing at the curb, taking a serious header as a colossal clank and shatter echoed all the way to Carlsbad. Spent and exasperated, she sat on the mountain of shards, her arms akimbo, her language likely leaving nothing to the imagination.
\nThat\u2019s when La Jolla\u2019s spirit of generosity broke through the week\u2019s fatigue. No more than five seconds later, five onlookers \u2013 including one guy who\u2019d pulled over in his car \u2013 gathered to help the lady, gingerly lifting her to her feet and pawing the splinters from her clothes. Earnest questions about her condition competed with the noise from the broken glass, and they stopped only when each Samaritan was persuaded that the lady was all right. Peace and health were restored to the land. The street cleaners would take it from there. If you\u2019d seen what happened, you\u2019ve have known that these benefactors weren\u2019t fulfilling anybody\u2019s sense of requirement. They were obviously from all walks of life (the guy in the car was driving a high-end Mercedes), and they\u2019d rallied amid a sense of genuine concern. Rightly or wrongly, La Jolla and La Jollans may have a certain reputation for privilege, but that\u2019s equaled by the size of the neighborhood\u2019s helping hand, drop-dead Saturdays notwithstanding. Martin Jones Westlin<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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