Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Random act of kindness

I often ride the bus to school in the morning. Needless to say, I still have a hard time knowing the exact time that I need to be at the bus stop (all our clocks have different times). This morning I went rather early to make sure that I would not miss the bus.

Early spring time weather has hit hard in Logan. This means quite a bit of rain, and probably snow at some point as well. As I stood at the bus stop, vehicles were swishing down the rainy road. Then, all of a sudden a blue Toyota Corolla started to slow down and pull over to where I was standing soaked in the rain like a wet dog.

"Who could this be?" I thought. As my mind raced as to who this could be, the person rolled down their window. It was an older gentleman who was unfamiliar. He said nothing, but handed a black umbrella to me. I said thanks, and he quickly drove off as fast as he had pulled over.


What a selfless, kind act of service. How many times have I driven by someone who needed my help, someone who needed an umbrella, or maybe money, food or work? I am going to pass this umbrella on. Hopefully that person can pass it on to someone else, and it can continue on to help many sopping wet people.

8 comments:

10V said...

Very beautiful thought sir...Wish we had more people like that in the world...Its would be a much better place to live in.

The Kynastons said...

What a cool guy! I need to be more like that.

MSmith said...

That story made me misty....

made sweet said...

that is such a sweet story! i love amazing people like that. thanks for sharing.

and...i still have another year of school. but that's cool, right? lots of people go to school for 7 years....

:)

Katie said...

Wow. that is awesome

Mrs. Case said...

That is just so great. We need more umbrella droppers!

Megan said...

everybody should go right now and buy an umbrella just for that purpose. so rad.

Birrell Family said...

Don't you love nice people? Let us all pass it on! That made my day :)