Originally Posted by BarbaraTX
Last week a 50ish year old man came to my door and asked if he could rake the leaves in my front yard. Said he'd do a good job, needed money for his family. I said I only had a few dollars in my wallet (I had forgotten that I took some cash out a few days before.) I told him I'd give him some food to take home, (growing up, mom always told me, never turn someone away who asks for food), but he was on his bicycle and he needed feminine products for his wife and teen girls. I felt so bad - it was cold and drizzly. I told him I'd give him whatever was in my wallet. That's when I found the little bit of cash I had taken out. I gave him $15 (that left me with $3) and told him he didn't have to rake the leaves. I kept thinking about this guy and just knew I'd been taken. But I'd rather be taken than turn someone away that was really needy.
Well, he just showed up at my door and is mowing the yard and bagging up the leaves (he has one of those catchers on the mower). He dragged the mower, gas can, etc. behind his bike (still no car). My faith in people is renewed!
Lovely story.
Reminds me of my son, he was 18 at the time. Working the 11 to 7 am shift as a security guard. On his way home he fell asleep at the wheel. He went between two telephone poles and took out a row of hedges and stopped in the middle of a rather large Crepe Myrtle bush. After we got home, had the car towed. He went back there, worked almost all day digging out the roots of the hedge and chopping up the Myrtle bush. He offered to come back the next day and replant everything. The two elderly sisters said no, they were planning on hiring someone to take all those plants out anyways.....LOL
He showed up there for weeks after working on their yard for free and lots of baked goods...LOL