A Little Girl and Her Plastic Bag

Yesterday while on my way to a supermarket I saw a little girl of perhaps five leaning at a tree close to the road and watching a blue plastic bag which was drifting in the wind. She looked very sad with her light blue eyes and her blond hair streamed out behind her. The bag was lifted by a strong blast and I ran after it, crossing the road. A car came and stopped, waiting for me to cross the road. A younger man on the other side of the road saw that I wanted to catch the bag and he was also running after it, but the wind drifted the bag far over the lawn up hills. After some unsuccessful attempts to get hold of the bag he finally could grab it. I went to him and he gave me the bag and smiled. I then told him that a little girl was sad about losing that bag. He wished me a nice weekend and I returned to that little girl still standing near the tree but this time smiling. She shyly whispered "Thank you", took the bag and ran to her little playmates waiting for her anxiously in the background.