Last weekend, we were at HD picking up a grill. It was too tall to fit under our pickup top. So here we are, two old duffers, trying to take the cover off to make it fit. Several people came along, offering hints and commiserating with us, when a couple stopped and asked which way we were headed. Sure enough, they were going in the same direction, so they offered to take it home for us in their open back pickup. When we thanked them profusely, their reply was.”pass it on.” This concept just needs to take hold all over the country.
Seventy plus years ago, our rural carrier would bring groceries to us, take anybody anywhere along his route that we needed to go. Unfortunately, todays mindset of suing people for any inconvenience or infringement of rights has stopped this practice. I, too, was a rural carrier years ago and an elderly lady's daughter asked me to bring her mother's mail into the house for her when she came home from the hospital. I was more than glad to do this, but after a few days another younger neighbor complained, stating that I would have to deliver every-ones mail to their door if I did this for the elderly neighbor. Imagine!!!
>>>“Pass it on” seems to be catching on in a big way around here.<<<
I have been doing that for a long time...
Back when I was in the Army, a fellow platoon member was very distraught - so I asked him if there was anything I could do. He said that he had everything set to bring his wife down there to live, he had a place rented and all, but he didn’t have enough money left to go get his wife.
I asked him how much he needed, and he said it would take $100 to drive up to Kansas and bring her back. I suggested we go to the base credit union and see what they said. They told him that he would need a cosigner - which I did for him, which meant I had to at least deposit $5 into an account of my own. He asked me how he could repay me and I told him to just ‘Pass it On’.
Many years later I was in KC, eating at one of the steak houses near the stockyards(I think it was the Golden Ox can’t really remember for sure) and this guy and his wife came up to me and said they wanted me to know that telling him to ‘pass it on’ had changed their lives. I didn’t recognize him at first but it was the same guy. He had decided to go to work for a rather large foundation that made small grants to people - he said that he made thousands of those grants, and he told each one to ‘Pass it On’.
So, I continue to say and do that. Never know who or what the good effects will be.