Injured trash collector is lifted by the many friends he picked up

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | July 12, 2023 | Abby Kirkland

[Sacajaweau]

Simple Life Lesson....Be Kind!

[Dr. Sivana]

“I hope to return to work in the fall if I am cleared by my doctor,” he said. “I want to show everyone how much I appreciate what they did for me.”

He said he is making progress every day but has a permanent brain injury in his frontal lobe.

“I still have knee problems and I’m doing exercises at home to rehab it. I have 10% hearing in my right ear and I can’t smell or taste food. But I can get out and do things now.”

What a great attitude. He would probably qualify for lifelong disability, and should be tempted to bitterness and resentment, but he moves forward with a positive attitude. God Bless him!

[albie]

Nice story. Hard working guy that everyone loves. Our trash peeps are thugs that look like they’re fresh out of prison.

[arthurus]

Not being able to smell or taste food is really annoying. I was epileptic or a few years after a head injury and after a seizure I couldn’t taste food. We all say something is tasteless from time to time but I didn’t know what that really is until I experienced real “tasteless.” For a day, sometimes two after a seizure the only thing I could put in my mouth was ice cream. The cold and texture substituted for the missing taste. Eating was unpleasant in the extreme.

[V_TWIN]

Not long after we moved into our customers we started giving our regular garbage truck driver a monetary Christmas gift.

Since we began doing that he brings our can up to the garage every week.

Seeming to be of an advanced age, Willie always has a smile and a kind word when I see him and if he sees me first he always gives me two blasts on his truck horn.

The money we give him averages out to only around a dollar a week....money very well spent IMO.

[V_TWIN]

Current home not customers......stupid phone

[USS Alaska]

Current home not customers......stupid phone

I wondered about your post, and then thought of auto correct and remembered that AI has already taken over my brain to the degree that I forgot what I was going to write... smart ass computer program.

[Huskrrrr]

Work hard, complain less, help others. What a great example.

[Zuriel]

I disconnected the autocorrect 2 years ago. I figure I make more sense with just a letter or two wrong than an entire word or two.

[V_TWIN]

Yeah I tried that once......for me it’s aggravating either way. 😏

[peggybac]

The garbage men in my city don’t leave their trucks. An arm picks up the receptacle, dumps it in the back of the truck, then replaces it on the end of the driveway.

[curious7]

True.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOxEwCuEgQ

[RedMonqey]

Wow, that really blows. While I’m the eat-to-live kinda of fellow, what food I enjoy are of the spicy, high flavor type.
One of the perks of life.

[Albion Wilde]

[TribalPrincess2U]

Detest photos with no description of anything.

[linMcHlp]

Apparently a photo of him, while at “Hocking Hills in Ohio where he hiked and relaxed.”

[Albion Wilde]

Don’t look at them then.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Having a photo without any words is amusing? How dumb. Why bother.

[Albion Wilde]

Having a photo without any words is amusing? How dumb. Why bother.

Complaining on a post that was about one man because of a picture of one man, and needing that explained to you? Talk about dumb.