Things are not always what they seem

I was leaving work and saw a man, very disoriented, standing beside a young woman trying to help him. She looked very concerned. I walked up to them to see if I could help. The man had lost his wife. He was looking for her and wandering in and out of traffic through the bustling parking lot. Afraid he would get hurt we moved him under the awning in front. He seemed very agitated and told us that his wife told him to meet her by the recycled bag drop off. He was rambling and not making a ton of sense and the lady and I assumed that this older gentleman might be having some sort of aged episode. We helped him look for her and even went back in to the store to make an announcement. We feared not only for his safety but for hers as well. We searched the store. I checked the bathrooms and still no luck. We started to think that something in his story may have been confused.  He grew angry with us when we began to ask questions like "are you sure your wife came with you today?" We went back with him to his car to check thinking perhaps she was waiting there for him. We asked if he wanted us to call his house to check and make sure that she had not gotten home somehow or call another family member for help. 30min go by and after we make an announcement in the store again we decide the next step is to call the police. This whole time the man keeps yelling at us saying he's not crazy, but honestly at this point we are suspicious of his behavior. He kept trying to walk back into on coming traffic and almost got hit in front of us a few times as we were trying to convince him to stand with us.  He says " she does this to me all time."  Finally one more sweep through the store by the lady helping us and she comes back out as I was standing with him to quietly tell me, ", there's only one older lady I see but she's very well quaffed and does not look like the kind of lady that would belong to this man I think we need to call the police now". Sure enough three seconds later both our jaws drop as this very elegant lady comes out to meet her disheveled , hygienically challenged husband. Boy we felt guilty and foolish. All this time we were treating this man as if he were completely senile and in the end we were the ones who were left standing confused.