Kindness from a stranger

[LuckyJoe]

The good things that have happened. I can only think of two.

When I was 16 my car broke down infront of this guys house in the middle of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He and his son helped me push it to the curb. I found out what was wrong with it. The serpantine belt had broke. It just happened that I had the right size wrench in the car to fix it. But I didn't have enough money to buy a new belt after awhile the guy came in and bought the belt for me. He wouldn't take the money I had on me. I sent him a Christmas card that year taking him for having helped me that day.

The second I was on a business trip out to New Jersey. While I stopped at a truck stop I sat down and left my note book laying on the table. It had all my reciepts in the pocket of it. I couldn't remember for the life of me where I had left it. A few weeks later a packet came in the mail. It was my note book. It didn't have a return address so I don't know if someone picked it up and mailed it or if the truck stop itself did the deed.