being a good neighbor--

[IXLR8]

There is a middle age couple down the street from me, he is a computer geek who gets injured just picking up a shovel and she only has one functioning arm. Their plow guy puts all the snow from their driveway and some from the road all in their front yard, right next to the house. Plow guy is their neighbors son, he has been asked several times each year to put the snow beside the house rather than in front of the house... he can't be bothered. When the snow is put in front of the house.. it melts and runs into their basement. So.. several times each winter, I go over and move the snow piles from in front of the house to behind the house where it melts and runs into the river rather than into their basement. If I lived there full time.. I would clear their driveway for them. Their beaming smiles and thank you's are all I need... and all I will accept. I have no idea why they keep using the neighbors twit son for plowing, but that is their choice.

 

[RayCo]

These are some nice reads.

Mine isn't anything extraordinary or anything. This past winter, we had two monstrous snowfalls. With the length of our driveway, the slope it's on, and the amount of snow, I knew it'd be a couple of days before I could get a vehicle other than my tractor out onto the road. Once I cleared a path to the road, I took a road trip on my tractor to a Wawa (like a 7-11 or Circle K) a few miles down the road. Along the way, I saw a man in his late 60s or early 70s shoveling his driveway. With the amount of snow we had, he would have been there until he died, either from a heart attack or just aging. So, I cleared his driveway for him, which to him was great, but to me, was just more tractor fun. Sometimes it's quite easy to seem nice!

 

[Chilly807]

Nothing puts a smile on people's faces like watching a machine easily do work that would have left them exhausted and with an aching back.

Sean

 

[dcyrilc]

Nothing puts a smile on people's faces like watching a machine easily do work that would have left them exhausted and with an aching back.

Sean

Got that right.

 

[RadarTech]

he is a computer geek

Hey careful there--- I R one of those!

J

 

[RadarTech]

These are some nice reads.

That was the whole purpose of this thread...

you know we all so often moan groan and complain..
and I thought it was just a good wholesome idea to share some good time stories about how good folk help each other....

I would really like to have this thread grow and grow...

and someday come back and see it all again!

keep em coming folks--- no matter the bad pain in the rears out there-- there are always those diamonds in the rough and their are always thorns...

but by thinking of those diamonds and just plain good times, we can weather the bad times...



Well.. that is about it for me... today was a double shift-- 7 AM until 10 PM.. and I gotta hit another 8 in the AM starting at 7. so off I go.. hi ho.....hi ho..... off to bed I go... or maybe in a few more minutes....


J

 

[TripleR]

Hey careful there--- I R one of those!

J

Ah, but do you hurt your arm picking up a shovel; probably not. There are Geeks and GEEKS.

I have a Geek friend who is as comfortable working on computers, cars, tractors or any kind of grunt work; all have served him very well.

 

[captbluewater]

I got a call at 10:30pm from neighbor telling me one of their horses died and needed to bury it. I got there first thing in morning in pouring rain and dug a large hole and then had to drag the horse from barn with FEL to the hole. The rope broke twice before getting to the hole.

 

[aczlan]

I have a Geek friend who is as comfortable working on computers, cars, tractors or any kind of grunt work; all have served him very well.

Sounds like me. I was raised on a farm, work (or have worked) as a farmhand, mechanic stable hand, surveyor's assistant, HVAC tech, electrician, DJ, maintenance man and (currently) as a systems administrator.
I am as comfortable baling hay or replacing a headgasket as I am as reconfiguring a server
Makes life more interesting than it would be having just one specialty .

Aaron Z

 

[TripleR]

Sounds like me. I was raised on a farm, work (or have worked) as a farmhand, mechanic stable hand, surveyor's assistant, HVAC tech, electrician, DJ, maintenance man and (currently) as a systems administrator.
I am as comfortable baling hay or replacing a headgasket as I am as reconfiguring a server
Makes life more interesting than it would be having just one specialty .

Aaron Z

Just like my friend, our Department would have been lost without him, he serves on some committees on implementing the use of laptops by all Officers, software parameters and stuff I don't understand, but is at home on the firing range, deer woods or swapping engines in his car; heck of a guy.