Thursday, January 22, 2009

Kindness of strangers

I was riding the trolley yesterday, when it started to pull away. A woman was chasing it down, trying to catch the driver before she left, when... splat. She slipped on the icy street and fell in the slush.

The driver did notice her, and waited for her to come on board. The woman started to wipe the slush off her coat and purse, but she was pretty wet. Then, someone across the aisle from her pulled a few paper towels from her coat pocket and offered them up.

"I bring them from home," she said. "I have more. You take them."

And I thought that was pretty great.

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