So we got over two feet of snow here starting thursday into friday. With the snow plow going by, I had a three foot wide and two and a half foot high pile of snow around my car. Holy cow man, that was going to take me hours to shovel out of my parking spot on the street and when I woke up at 6:00 a.m., I was like, Oh no... I'm not going in to work today. I'm all blocked in out there. So, I called out. Most of the office did actually.
So, I went out around 2:00 p.m., and started at the front of the car, making a nice "U" in the front so I could swing out. As I started chipping into the huge pile at the side this guy with a snow plow was sitting there behind me when I looked up. I moved off to the side and he turned his plow at an angle, and he drove 6 inches from my car and took 2 feet of it away!
Well! There I am, standing there, mouth dropped open ... he only did my car, I've never seen the guy before and he did that massively nice thing for me! Wow... holy cow! I gave him a thumbs up, still standing there with this gratefull and surprised look on my face. I mean, wow... right? He just saved me a good couple of hours!
So, the woman who lives downstairs from me was shovelling hers out, so I went and helped her when I was done with mine. After that, the girl who lives next door who parked across the street came out with this icky shovel and she started on hers. So, I went over there and began helping her. The woman who I helped walked over and she started to help us. :)
Man... isn't that just the nicest thing?
Because that fella helped me, I still had the energy left to help that other woman. I was going to anyway but that made it easier. And because both of us did her spot, we both had enough left to help that young girl next door!
Now this is just totally cool to me :)
Do something nice today for someone. Hold a door, wait a few extra seconds to help someone, JUST DO IT! ... expect nothing in return, okay?
I mean, it seems to me that, the more I do without thinking about it, you know just doing it, the more I start to see it happen. I like that. I think about small towns and places where people go out of their way to know their neighbors and do things for one another and that would nice if it spread to all over. Right?
Yes!
You guys have anything nice you've seen or done lately? I mean, isn't that just great? YUP!
3 comments:
Very nicely written, and inspiring as well. The guy next door did us that same favor yesterday, bringing his industrial strength blower over and doing our driveway. Yes, people can be really nice sometimes.
That's very nice! My friend up at his house, they all went around helping each other too!
Yesterday I went shopping at Kohl's, they have sales that are linked directly to using your credit card from there. If you don't have the card, you don't get the discount. Which I think is a really ridiculous way to get people to get their card. So when I asked the woman at the register, if there were any coupons I may have been missing she said no, only the ones with the card. Then she said, she would give it to me anyway! The woman behind me got my attention and asked if I would like to use her 15% off coupon if they could use it twice. That was very nice too!
See... I think those who are mean leave a bigger mark than all the nice things we can be subjected to on a daily basis, the trick, I believe is to really start focusing on the good and then we start seeing more of it. Not to say we won't see the bad yet I think it would give us a better perspective on it when it happens.
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