Good people...
ARE out there!
The news can be awfully heavy these days. I know I like to take breaks, and I assume you do, too. If you don’t, I highly encourage it (after you’ve read PJ Media, of course). With that in mind, I’ve decided to try something a little new. On Fridays, I’m going to share with you a “feel-good” story from the week that touched my heart and helped me remember that there are still good people out there in the world, and I hope you enjoy these stories, too.
If you’ve ever ordered food or grocery delivery from a company like DoorDash, you understand that you never know who will deliver your stuff. It could be a young college student trying to make some extra cash, a single mom who needed something to do that would allow her to bring her baby along, or just someone who enjoys the hustle of making his own hours and sort of being his own boss. To be honest, though, I think most of us rarely know who exactly is dropping our food off because we opt to have them leave it at the door. I know I do.
Brittany Smith of Tennessee used DoorDash last week to place an order from Starbucks. From her Ring doorbell camera, she saw that her delivery driver was an elderly man. He moved slowly and struggled a bit on the stairs to get up to her porch. That left her wondering why a man his age was out delivering food when he should be enjoying retirement. She wanted to leave him a bigger tip than she had, but the DoorDash app wouldn’t allow her to do so, so she took to social media.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
I’m thankful there are folks out there like Mrs. Smith who are willing to actually DO something!
There are good folks out there, we just usually do not hear about them. As a friend (television director) said many years ago, “Give me blood and guts or a sob story, and I’ll get you 15 minutes nationally for a couple of days. Give me a feel good, and I ‘might’ get 15 seconds once.”
All you have to do is look at any news broadcast and you’ll see the truth of that. Dammit...
And we DO need good people to help our friends out. Kat (Ainsworth) Stevens has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is facing a double mastectomy. The problem is she is a gun writer and freelancer so no insurance. If you’ve read any gun mags in the last few years, you’ve probably read her stuff, yes, she IS that good!
She is also a hunter/firearms tester and has been featured in a number of articles and advertisements, but now all that is off the table.
Rachel Fry has put together a Give Send Go for Kat, and that is here- https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund
Anything helps, as she is looking at considerable expenses! Thank you in advance...
A breath of fresh clean air you are sir, BZ
There are good people out there. I see them all the time. I think it's important to help grow them, or at least bring out that inner goodness that is within most of us. Try to do it by smiling a retail sales staff, waitresses, counter people at fast foods, people out there who wait on you and have to struggle with good folks and not so good folks. Thank them, be civil, polite, pay them a compliment if merited. That comes naturally to most of us, I know, but going the extra mile to brighten someone's day pays dividends in maintaining our civilization. This is kind of an adjunct to mentoring. I was on the receiving end of it when I first started out on my own. It made a huge difference.