I don`t know how I forgot to put the following in the journal because its a notable event I think. What happened was last Friday, daughter Kerry came over for a cup of tea and to take home my washing. I opened the door to find her holding a laptop case that she had found outside my house. We opened it to find no laptop (what a surprise!) but it had quite a few floppy disks and CD-ROM. After further hunting through we found a few business cards. The case was soaking wet and they were only just readable. But anyway, Kerry gave the company a call and to our surprise we found it was stolen TWO MONTHS ago ! The company are chartered accountants and they said the disks would be very useful and that someone would come round to collect it. Well, a man did turn up and he said he was so grateful to Kerry and he gave her a bottle of wine for being a good citizen and being honest. It was a very nice thing to do but it got me thinking, is it really such a poor world that we live in and is it all that unusual to give back what is rightfully somebody`s property. I suppose we have given our children the grounding they need and the conscience to do the right thing by others, for that I can rest easy, but I do think its food for thought. Would other people have just walked past and left it there. Its like the young woman who was lying on a London Street and cars drive past and didn`t stop to help. The poor woman could have been seriously injured or worse. Thankfully she wasn`t even hit by a car, but the point is nobody knew that. Anyway , Kerry said it made her day to do a good turn and that it made her feel good and at that moment I felt really proud of her. A small thing to some perhaps, but so much to me!
Well, have a good weekend and a HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all !
4 comments:
The good turns get passed on too, I believe, Sandra. When you open a door for someone, they'll open a door for someone else later that day. The small things count.
it's always nice to be able to help someone out
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Sure testament that you raised her right.
Well done to Kerry for doing the right thing. We live in a sad world. I remember seeing those pictures of that young woman lying in the street and cars just driving past. Some of it is the couldn't care less attitude and some of it is fear. I hope people today are raising their children as well as you raised Kerry. xxx
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