Good samaritan....

When my neighbor stole my dogs and dumped them off, a group of people were good smaritans. I am assuming that they were homeless by their appearance (sorry for being judgemental) and the fact they were at a park known for it's homeless encampments. They found my dogs, played with them, fed them, even took them swimming in the river. I know they didn't have much money, but they managed to call me several times from a payphone until they got ahold of me. My dogs had such a great time with them. When my husband and I gave them the reward money, the guy started crying. It broke my heart because that made it obvious that he didn't expect a reward and really needed the money.

A person that made me feel really special...

Two years ago, I went to an old old old run down apartment building to repair a phone line for a woman. (I work for the phone company in construction, but help out in repair during storms.) It was storming pretty bad and I was having a hard time with her phone lines since the building was so old and big. I was up on the telephone pole outside of the building in the wind and rain for a few hours trying to get her lines working. When I finally fixed them, I went to her apartment to tell her. We got to chatting and she kind of had a silly smile, but didn't let on. This woman was an artist and poet, so we chatted about poetry a bit and she showed me some of her work.

Like a month later, I get a call from the dispatch department telling me I have to go back to a customers house to fix her line. I told dispatch that I am in the construction not repair department, so they must be mistaken. The dispatcher said "I know, but this lady is insisting on you coming back, so the management said I could page you. She will not stop calling until you come back." So, I went back all worried thinking she's mad and I must have made her lines worse.

She presented me with a beautiful abstract canvas painting of myself on a telephone pole and a collection of poems and quotes about strong-willed women. It was the coolest most special thing.