Big-Hearted FedEx Delivery Driver Shovels Porch For Widow

Shame this is news. Happens all the time in my neighborhood.

For example, couple of windstorms ago, an ~85 year-old veteran across the street had a huge cottonwood blow down in his yard. Within the hour, neighbors had showed up with chainsaws and trailers and it was taken care of - almost instantly. That's just one example.

And really how it ought to be. People around here do that sort of thing all the time for the elderly and those down on their luck.

Guess I'm lucky to live where I do.

We pull back the trash cans for neighbors. Everyone does it. The city gives you only 24 hours to remove your bins from the street which is ridiculous in winter. Folks might be on vacation, delayed, whatever.

At the risk of being maudlin/sappy/thanksgiving-ey, maybe all of us who read this thread can resolve in some way to do the same.

We cannot do fuckall with politics. The world. Most of the crap that we see in the threads on this site and in the news. BUT...

We can shovel the widow's sidewalks. Carry a few warm hats from the dollar store in our car and give them to the homeless we see. Take in our neighbors' trash cans. Whatever.

I assert that if more people did stuff like this, we'd be closer to a real solution than further from one.

Wow. I sure didn't expect to go there on the Internet today. Indulge me.