As the temperature approached as high as 90 °F last July 4th, three police officers went into a Foods Market to get something 1 to drink. Once inside, they were asked by a security guard to help with a 2 woman. The woman in question was obviously 3 , and her cheeks were wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were containers of 4 .
"I'm hungry," she explained5 . Caught red-handed, the woman no doubt expected to be treated as a 6. But the police had other 7. "We'll pay for her food." One of them told the 8 security guard. She would not be9.
Drying her wet10 , the woman repeated, "Thank you, thank you." She wasn't the only one touched by this act of 11. Customers at the store were so impressed by what they'd 12 that some even posted a photo on Twitter. 13, attention was never what the officers sought. They were 14 by a far more common emotion. When we look at someone's face and see that they need you, it's pretty 15 as a human being to walk away from something like this.