Carefree Reminiscence

I remember I saw her a sturdy grey haired eighty something woman with pin point pupils and vacant looking coldest grey - blue eyes. She appeared lost and yet some fragment of sanity rendered within. She waddled purposely stick in hand across the road, to the bench next to the bus stop. Conversing and nodding on her approach but there's no-one there. I got to wondering if she were unhinged, out of her mind crazy what with hospital for such nearby. Were she one with mental illness? Was this a State negligence? Maybe she was disturbed with some cruel neurosis, or then did she see beyond a veil where I could not, and be thinking similar thoughts of me? Non-sensical but I recollect how an ambulance pulled alongside. Two got out in a hurry, three slipped away.