I saw the weirdest thing I have ever seen today.

I went and picked up some lunch and decided to pull over to the side and just eat it in the truck. (I’ll do that every once in a while if there’s an interesting segment on the sports talk radio station I’m listening to.) Anyway, as I’m sitting there eating in the truck, I notice one of these monstrous SUVs come through the drive-thru at the fast food joint next door. The SUV comes to a stop and a lady rolls down the window to place her order. As she’s ordering, I notice her little girl in the passenger seat roll down her window, too. I figure the little girl (who couldn’t have been more than 5 years old) was just wanting to mimic her Mommy by “pretend ordering” or something. All of a sudden, the little girl stands up (evidently she wasn’t buckled up!) and climbs out of the window Dukes of Hazard style and climbs up on the roof of the SUV! After hoisting herself to the top of the car, she gathered herself, laid flat on her back and put her hands behind her head like she was sunbathing or something. By this time, Mom (who is oblivious to the whole thing) has finished placing her order and she begins to drive off — with the little girl still on top of the car!

For a split second, I was kind of caught: Do I get out and tell this woman that her daughter has climbed up on top of her SUV? I mean, shouldn’t she be able to figure it out on her own? Maybe she knows her kid is up there. Maybe this is like their little family game or something. “Hide From Mommy On Top Of The Car While It’s Moving.” But what if she doesn’t realize it, I thought. What if that little girl falls off and gets hurt and I’ve just been sitting here watching the whole thing when I could’ve done something to prevent it? And then I thought about this verse. And then I thought about these verses. (These verses always seem to pop in my mind at the most inconvenient times. Scripture can be annoying like that.) Don’t you just hate it when your lunch is interrupted by an ethical dilemma?

Right about the time that I was going to get out and tell this mother that her daughter was on the roof of her SUV (how do you start that conversation?), Mom reached her hand through the open sunroof (which I didn’t even realize was there), grabbed her daughter’s leg and proceeded to pull the little girl back into the vehicle, all without ever hitting the brakes. It was really quite an impressing display of driving skill, if you ask me.

Maybe the weirdest part of it all was that Mom was relatively unfazed by it. Just another day in Mommy-land, I guess.