Posted on 07/26/2019 7:36:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The surprise set-up was perfect, and it paid off. Kinnie Morris walked in the lobby at Jim Pearson Elementary School Thursday morning bewildered and clueless on what the commotion was all about. Then, Ellen Price revealed the real surprise.
School custodian Kinnie Morris learns he's getting a new car thanks to the generosity of his community. (Source: WSFA 12 News)
'"We all got you together to get you a new car," Price, a first grade teacher at the school, revealed. Morris was even more stunned.
A new, used car is on the way to replace the old clunker Morris drives now. The reason behind it all is the school found out Morris was having trouble making appointments to see his doctor, and sometimes getting to work. He often had to borrow a friend’s car to make it to both places.
“This school would truly not run as efficiently or be as much fun without Kinnie," said Price who also spearheaded the GoFundMe fundraiser.
”I was completely shocked because I thought it was for somebody else," Morris explained.
For 24 years the school custodian has been sweeping his way into the hearts of countless children who’ve come and gone. “They don’t forget me and I don’t forget them. Now, some of them I give them nicknames," he said.
“He’s very funny, sweet and crazy," said student Madison Hamlet.
Kinnie Morris even had a nickname for his own vehicle, an old Buick Park Avenue. “White Lightning.” Well, it used to be. After all, it has close to 295,000 miles on it now.
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Endear yourself to an entire community for 25 years. That should do it.
That explains it. GM built it before it became Government Motors.
That’d get him another clunker that someone else got rid of because it wouldn’t get them to appointments.
Both of ours have more mileage than his and (knock on wood) they run just fine. Fifteen and 20 years old.
Yep, we are really bad down here in Bama. The weather sucks and we are all stupid hicks. Please don’t blow our cover by publishing articles like this. We don’t want the wrong kind of people to discover this gem of a state. Of course, Freepers are always welcome to escape liberal states and join us here, just keep it on the down low.
Except for the politically correct idiots which is the lifes blood of the Demonrats and more than a few STUPID Republicans as far as erasing the history of the South, I consider this hillybilly infested country the nearest thing to paradise on Earth!........ever hear of people moving NORTH in the past few years?.......;)
The community is majority white and the custodian is black. Don't expect to see this on CNN or PMSNBC.
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