This morning, waking to freshly fallen snow, I checked the sidewalk which I shoveled TWICE yesterday and saw it was once again "full" and in need of a shovel. I made some coffee and began to think about my day. Lo! a sound, a motor, a neighbor with a snow blower . . . and he's approaching my sidewalk. Will he stop at the driveway or will he continue and do my sidewalk too? Oh, bless his heart, he did not stop. I don't know who he is, except that he has a big ole heart and a snow blower.
He doesn't live next door, maybe around the corner? I saw him on the other side of the street as well. How nice it is to live near a good Samaritan.
I will say that I think he uses discretion about how far to go. For instance, he did not go any farther than my house. In my mind, I think he saw that I had made the effort yesterday and the next house had not. (Although I did do a one time shovel of her sidewalk early). I don't care his rationale, I love being on the receiving end this morning.
And just FYI, as of 6 p.m. last night, Pittsburgh had received 42.8 inches of snow this month. It's one for the record books.
2 comments:
I have a friend that lives a couple of blocks from you on a big corner. Her husband was out of town and she was breaking her back shoveling her corner double lot. She told me of the "Snow Blower Angel". I have a feeling it was the same guy. Sam told me tonight before bed that we were in so much trouble cuz we didn't shovel our walk today. We. are. losers.
A wonderful "pay-forward" reward for you!!! I am really missin' you, now that I know you might not be coming back for the workshops!
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