That same week, while on a shopping expedition in Scotland, Tabitha lost the cuddly cow her Great Granny had given to her. Dakota and Edward scoured the store but came up empty handed. Tabs was in tears until we discovered that it hadn't been taken, it had been turned in. It was just sitting on the counter of the customer service desk waiting for her to retrieve it. She was ecstatic!There are a lot of good people out there.
A couple of years ago when my sister Melanie came to visit, we took the kids to a popular park a couple of villages away and accidentally left her son's stroller there. Yes, I know, I know, but we were too busy talking to notice! In fact, we were so busy talking that we didn't notice for DAYS! When we did finally did notice, four or five days later, we didn't think we'd have a hope of finding the thing again. But, just in case, we drove down to check and...there it was! It was a little sun-faded but it was still there!
And this kind of stuff happens to me all the time. Heaven knows how many times I've left shampoo, towels, flip flops, etc behind at the gym - but every single item has been returned to me. I realize that people don't exactly aim to steal sweaty jog bras but still... the world is a good place and that makes me happy.
Another thing that makes me happy is passing our tiny village shop every morning on the walk to Tabby's school. Its delivery of bread comes way before the place actually opens so the bread just sits out there in the open, every morning, unprotected. And no one ever touches it. I find this especially amazing considering it's right next to the teenager's bus stop! Lovely. Like a ray of sunshine on a crud day.So, honest people of the world, I salute you! Keep on scattering that sunshine!
7 comments:
I love this uplifting post! Happy day!
Guy, Tabs is looking so gorgeous! What a sweet post Daish, I'm so glad you wrote it. We need to hear more of this sort of stuff. I suppose the negative just sells better and stirs up the fire. Too bad because I felt very inspired by this blog. Thanks.
Ditto What the Hecklinger and Anonymous said.
What time did you say that bread was just sitting there... All lonely?
Correction.....all of the honest people in the world are in England. Oh yes, and there is one in California.
Remember the song "Scatter Sunshine" and how we would mock/sing it? Ahhh, the good old days.
Too bad my camera thief didn't turn my camera in...or maybe he did and we just didn't check!
We don't seem to have such honest people out here, though the bread truck outside of McKays does sit unattended with the back open while the delivery guy takes stuff inside...
I'm not saying there's no crime out here (ie: Tiana's camera was stolen in London) I just think it's great when people are nice. And a pox on thieves!
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