Posted on 12/06/2014 2:23:32 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Wow, my eyes are watering. :)
What a pleasant story to start the day. I think I’ll skip all the others, and just take this smile with me. How sweet it is!
Showed the video to my mom who is battling Alzheimers Disease. The disease is starting to do the most damage - brain atrophy is more significant affecting the arms - shaking a great deal, blank stare. But there is some times the ability to see past the disease. She cried viewing the video. So many years as a neonatal intensive care nurse and now this disease just rips the very existence away. Thanks for posting
Precious. I posted this on my FB page.
Thanks so much for posting this. :)
It’s good to see that there are some bright spots out there - thanks.
The entire story is just wonderful. The UPS driver of 25 years is a real man whose actions speak so much louder then anyone in Washington, DC. The driver knows what being an American is truly about. He has been so nice to this young man. Obama should watch this to see how real men act and so should the entire city of Ferguson. If mothers and fathers in Ferguson would concentrate on parenting they and their kids would not act and live like thugs and ghetto trash.
Absolutely precious .... too bad it’s a damned commercial
Thanks for posting—great to see good being done in the world.
My uncle has Alzheimer’s. He has always given the Blessing at family meals. This Thanksgiving, we prayed three times during dinner
He forgot he had prayed. He still remembers his love for our Lord and Savior and prays eloquently. Alzheimer’s hasn’t taken that from him or us yet.
Why? We are a capitalist country and businesses must make a profit to survive. Commercials help them make a profit.
It’s great to know that this can still happen at all. Everybody worked together, including the neighbors. No UPS co-workers made any trouble or filed any ‘complaints’ about misuse of company property. Some children do have an affinity for certain systems or machines. A few of these children grow up to be innovators in the area of study that has always excited them.
This kind of reminds me of an old personal memory that has never completely left me. I was about that boys age in 1960 and had a similar fascination with the “mail man truck”. Maybe my mother was just trying to keep me busy and out of her hair. (She did tell us that if we could shake salt onto a birds tail, we would be able to catch it. This did keep us occupied.) Anyway, one day I was out waiting for the mail man. He pulled up and stopped. As I recall, this was a vehicle that he stood up in while driving?! Or, maybe it had the tall “stool seat”, like the milk man’s truck. Well, I was a little over-excited and I decided to jump up and into the open drivers door. Unfortunately my foot ended up depressing the gas pedal,..... to the floor. Nice Mr mailman suddenly transformed into a screaming lunatic. The only clear words I got out of it (and it was the first time I ever heard them) were, “that’s a federal offense”!! It changed my life in a subtle way. Not exactly like the boy in the video. Imagine a five year old, in 1960, going in to his house and asking his mother, “Mum, what is a federal offense?”
I’m so sorry about your mom. My FIL died of Alzheimers a few years ago. FWIW, here is what I learned: I try to remember that decades of accomplishment and love define the person’s life, not a few years of decline. Also, there is a symmetry in caring for our parents when they are helpless, just as they did for us when we were helpless babies. Finally, a long goodbye has an upside: when our loved one eventually passes, there is more peace about letting go and letting God take her or him home. When my mom died after a battle with cancer, we had already grieved with her, and for her. What was left, at her funeral, was just profound gratitude for her life, and celebration of the family she had brought into the world.
How sweet. Thank you, Swampsniper. Haven’t seen any of your great pics these days and I miss them.
hahahhahahha
I had to laugh a little. Maybe not a federal offense, but all I could think of while the little boy was walking around the truck was ‘He can’t go on the truck! Please don’t go on the truck, the guy will lose his job!’
I worked at a UPS store for awhile. You get freaked out by stuff like that. : )
cute story
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