My day as an almost hero...

So yesterday began as any ordinary day, chaos. I was running late, I got turned around, things weren't cooperating. So I was meeting up with Andee to find something special for my almost brother-law, Bruce, for his birthday. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Joliet, on the west side of Larking there used to be a Christian book store( who knows how long ago they closed, but they did), so I was turning around to go east on Jefferson to the Family Christian Book Store, when I did a man started waving at me. If you are unfamiliar with this part of town it's a tad shady. I did not respond the first time but he kept waving at me and saying I accessed he was far enough away from the car it was safe to unroll the window so I could hear him. He says " There is a woman on the ground around the corner..." and by this statement he walks away. I look to where he has pointed and I am unsure as to "pile on the ground" if it is actually a person. I pull my van to the side of the road, and identify that it is a person who is laying crumbled in a pile in the middle of the day off a busy street. I dial 911, and roll up my windows and lock my doors ( as Jenna and Jackson are inside(and who knows what is about to unfold)) I shove my keys down the front of my pants, hey no one was going to steal my van with my 2 children inside it without a fight. I approach the person that I can clearly identify as a woman. I am talking to the 911 dispatcher who I think was amazed that I knew what I was doing (kind of you, I mean you train for these things but you hardly think that you may have to use them, in the back of my head I was locating my respirator which I carry to help preform safe CPR). I do locate a pulse and the woman starts talking saying thank you sister. At this point I tell the dispatcher that I believe the woman is intoxicated, that's right I could small it from ten city blocks away as soon as she open her mouthed. I asked her name, and asked if she knew where she was. She correctly stated both. Here is the kicker, she then tells me she is an officer! That's right ladies and gentleman and officer. I won't blog this ladies name, but I will always remember it. When the ambulance arrives, they say "Julie( that's what I'll call her) you missed court this morning", I was in shock and stumbled off something about my 2 kids in my car and asked politely was there anything else they needed the EMT ( I assume ) shook his head no. I was back in my van and off to the book store.
I have to ask would you have been the man who passed the lady on as someone else's problem or would you have been the person whose only thoughts we to her children and this women? Sorry to be so quizzical but I can hardly believe this man who walked away from someone who he saw unconscious on the side of the road!