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Posted by SeattleGirl in The DU Lounge
Wed Apr 22nd 2009, 06:20 PM
I was walking to the store near my office, and kitty-corner to where I was, this elderly gentleman was trying to walk across the street. He was walking extremely slowly, and when the light turned green for the people sitting there, he was smack in front of the lead car.

The driver got out, and offered the gentleman his arm, and started helping him across the street. Another man, out walking his dog, went over and got the older man's other elbow, and both of them helped him get across the street. The driver then went back to his car (the light had cycled by then), but no one in that line of cars honked their horns or yelled, because they saw what he did.

The dogwalker was smaller than the elderly gentleman, and so I was going to cross the street and help, but I had to wait for the light. As I was, another driver who had been in that line at the light pulled out of line and crossed the lane, parked his vehicle, and he and the dog walker assisted the elderly gentleman over to the vehicle, so he could get a ride home.

The kindness of what I saw just really touched me.

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