I Woke To A Barefoot Little Girl Dragging My Gear Bag Across A Motel Walkway And Thought She Was Robbing Me. Then I Found What Her Sister Had Thrown Into The Ice Machine

I came awake angry, and I was wrong about almost everything for the next four minutes. There was a barefoot child outside my door hauling my gear bag along the concrete with both hands, and the motel manager was already shouting at her from the far end of the walkway, and the one thing nobody in that parking lot bothered to ask was why a seven-year-old would drag a stranger's bag toward the ice machine instead of away from it.