Helping your fellow citizens - please!

[abbeyco]

Not sure where to post this, but hopefully it'll get directed appropriately.

Tonight, leaving the grocery store, I saw a woman trying to get into a car not clearly her own. She was a senior citizen I'd seen before and was clearly confused and unable to enter the car with her bags. The car wasn't hers and she was completely confused that she couldn't get in. I asked if she needed help and she let me know her car looked similar but couldn't remember where she parked and was trying her key in cars that looked like hers.

Long story short, I looked at her key (Toyota) and the car she thought was hers - clearly no match - and went about looking for cars that matched being a Toyota. I found her car and got her bags inside and asked if I could follow her home, knowing she was rather shaken about not being able to identify her own vehicle. We drove off to her nearby community - back streets and no danger - and I left my business card with the attendant at her building, giving him a synopsis of what had happened. All ended well and she got home safely, but the attendant knew that she was starting signs of failing memory but there's no one to really look out for what she does for her own activities.

I know DU folks don't fail when there's an opportunity to help others out, but please just be aware that you may need to assist where you normally might not need to.

I don't post this to boast about what I did - just to bring awareness and I hope that if my Mother ever finds herself in the same situation, some kind soul will assist her, too.

Be well DU! :grouphug:

MODS - please post to GD - not sure how it ended up in Rural/Farm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. You are one of the Beautiful People.

:hug:

[abbeyco]

5. You are so nice to say that

And while I'm happy I could help her - and wonder how many people may have passed her by, I'm thankful for a safe and happy ending for this very sweet lady.

Pass it on....

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Take a bow,

and everything you did was correct, everything you said was right.

In the Jewish religion, we are taught that anonymous gifts of charity are the most blessed. Yours was blessed. How very lovely of you, and how dear that the woman was able to accept your kindness. It's a two-way street.

In this world, now more than ever, we need small kindnesses among ourselves to keep each other going.

I recently encountered a computer problem - a really scary thing that left me thinking a full reinstall of Windows (gasp!) was going to be necessary. Taking a chance, I posted my problem in the Computer forum here at DU.

You would not believe the immediate suggestions and help I got from people. And it went on and on, and finally, someone found EXACTLY what had happened to me, and took the time (I'm a computer illiterate) to explain to me, in painstaking detail, exactly what I had to do to fix my computer. Another individual sent me a link to a free utility I could download to save all my Firefrox settings! Just out of the goodness of their hearts, bless them all.

I haven't done it yet - tomorrow, with a clear head - but can you imagine the kindness of people all over the world! They just did what they could to help out a baffled LaBamba, and I ended up with the perfect - and simple - solution, simply because someone had had the same experience and wanted to help me.

That's what we need to remember, and what you did with that confused woman - especially following her home - touches my heart. I've done stuff like that. Doesn't it feel wonderful?

Remember when you were in grade school and some kid punched you and hissed "Pass it on!"

Pass it on .....................

[abbeyco]

4. You are too kind and PUNCH - back to you

Thank you for your kind comments that entail ALL that is great about DU.

I feel wonderful and I hope that what I've done will enable other folks to do the same - or at least be on the lookout for folks that need an assist.


Pass it on.......again

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. One of my favorite things,

and it's so easy and so right, is when I end up in the line at the grocery store, and someone in front of me doesn't have enough money for the order. I just give them whatever they need, and when they thank me, I tell them that one day they'll be where I am, and they'll see someone who needs a hand, and they'll extend that hand.

Youngsters - kids buying gum and munchies and stuff - take this especially well. You can see it registering, you can see it in their eyes, in that instant, that they are forever changed.

As you did, kid - pass it on .................................

[daleanime]

3. Your a very nice person...

now where that cloning machine?:applause: