Would you have?

Alright, so you're getting out of Kroger (or the grocery store you usually go to). It's 8:00 p.m. and the parking lot is pretty full for it being 8 and all. As you're making your way back to you car from buying some groceries, you notice the people around you. It's so funny how they live in your town, probably even near your house, but you've never seen them before. You notice a man in his work clothes carrying his 6-pack of beer, Shiner Bock to be exact, probably off to see the game or just relax after a long day at work. You see a girl on her cell phone laughing like a crazy woman, probably on the phone with one of her girlfriends. You notice a woman pushing a basket full of groceries while trying to control her little monster of a child (makes you not want to have kids, EVER). And then you set your eyes upon the other entrance of the store. You see a woman pushing her basket back to where the other baskets are and a man going towards her. He takes the basket and you smile. You think to yourself, "Man, I can't believe there are still good people around"!

You turn away towards your car, it's kind of far because you told yourself, "the more you walk, the better". Just as you get near, you hear a scream. You turn around and look to see where this scream is coming from. Then you notice people looking towards the other entrance direction. You see the woman and the "nice" man arguing, kind of fighting. She starts screaming again and this time you can make out the screams, they're a cry for help.

She's saying "Help! Help me!"

You get a closer look and the man is pulling her purse away from her and you see him pointing a gun at her chest. This woman must be tough or she must have something valuable in that purse because she is not letting go! You can't believe this is happening, is this an act? Some kind of sick joke? Just as you start to realize maybe they're not joking, the man hits the woman, pushes her to the ground and runs away in her vehicle. She's lying on the ground and people start to realize what just happened. this woman was mugged by this "nice man" and nobody, not even you, did anything to help her. As you stand there dumbfounded, you notice some people leaving, others are going towards the woman, and the rest just stand by their cars and look from afar. You're close enough to hear what's going on or maybe the shock of what just happened has silenced the entire parking lot, either way you hear what people say.

The woman, now in tears, looks at the people coming towards her and asks, "Why didn't you help me? He took everything!"
A man tells her, "I though you were playing."
She responds, "Why would I joke about something like that?"
You hear silence once again. You think to yourself, "Why didn't I help her? Did you think she was playing? Why would this man do that?"
And the question really is, "Would you have helped?"