Joan Murray in the essay, Someone’s mother, went off her own personal experience with her mother wondering off and having to put her in a home and how lonely she is now, in spite of her being taken care, instead of putting the lost women’s safety first. The elderly women tells her this is not the first time she has gotten lost, and keeps repeating “my son will find out and put me in a home” (147). Even though this may have played on Murrays’ emotion the right thing to do would have been to call the women’s son. Once she dropped the women off at the drug store, who knows how long the women had to wait till someone “noticed her” and took her home. What if the women wondered off again and fell somewhere? What if the women wondered farther and
