Karma pays you back.

[wvpolekat]

I live on a small blacktop road that is about 3/4 of a mile long that has 7 houses on it. Normally, whenever I plow my driveway, I make a run down the road and back, and knock the pile of snow down at the end of other peoples driveways. This gets me my seat time and out of the house. I enjoy it.

I have a neighbor on one side of me that has a drive that is about 100 yards long and very steep. Probably about a 25-30 degree angle. Normally, he plows it with his ATV and keeps it salted.

There have been days when he was at work or out when we got a dump of snow. If I happen to notice that he isn't home, I will run up his drive and clear it for him.

Yesterday, when plowing about 10" of snow off the road, poor lil Bota, lost traction going up a hill and very gently slid into a ditch, where it firmly lodged itself.

Well, me being alone, wasn't in a position to extract it. And, help would not be available until about 8 PM. Bota was left in the ditch to be retrieved later.

Fast forward to 6 PM, I hear something outside. My neighbor is on his ATV clearing my drive. I walk out to talk to him and thank him, he had seen the tractor and figured I needed help. He offered to help unstick it. About 15 min later, he and I had unstuck the bota using his ATV to clear the snow and give it a tug.

So, the lesson is that a simple 5 min act of kindness and being a good neighbor pays off. Even if I would have not needed his help, our neighborhood was a slightly better place to live because we are good to each other.

Take that cup of diesel fuel and 5 min to help someone out, they will help you or someone else and make things a little bit better for everyone.

 

[Johno Geo]

Very true!
Help your neighbors when you see they could use it.
....never know when you will need some help.
I'm with you... If I'm out first, I always make a pass at the neighbor road.

(hopefully, they never need to pull me out of a ditch, but it's nice to know they would)!

 

[miramadar]

That's how society is supposed to work. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans have become callous and self-centered that we are failing as neighbors. We see the world in a "global" context and forget about the more important "local" context of our existence. It is my opinion that man is supposed to live locally...not globally.

To quote one of my favorite bands: "Take care of those you call your own and keep good company."

10 points.if you can name the band.

 

[jlsmith]

Good for you.:drink: Im glad to see there are still some good guys out there.:thumbsup:

 

[smstonypoint]

To quote one of my favorite bands: "Take care of those you call your own and keep good company."

10 points.if you can name the band.

Queen. But I Googled to find out. How do I collect the points and redeem them for cash?

Steve

 

[wvpolekat]

That's how society is supposed to work. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans have become callous and self-centered that we are failing as neighbors. We see the world in a "global" context and forget about the more important "local" context of our existence. It is my opinion that man is supposed to live locally...not globally.

To quote one of my favorite bands: "Take care of those you call your own and keep good company."

10 points.if you can name the band.

That would be Queen- Good Company.

 

[nuffer460]

My home is my neighborhood. I don't want to know their business and they don't want to know mine. I watch their homes and they watch mine. I have a neighbor with a plow truck. He plows his driveway then makes a pass in the morning so my wife can get out. After his wife and daugter go to work and school. I really clean out his driveway. Then I clean mine and a couple of others. I had a health issue a little while back. He told my wife to call him if she needs anything. He told her, I've taken care of his family enough times. The best thing is we don't keep track of who has done what for who. It just gets done. :thumbsup:

 

[TripleR]

My home is my neighborhood. I don't want to know their business and they don't want to know mine. I watch their homes and they watch mine. I have a neighbor with a plow truck. He plows his driveway then makes a pass in the morning so my wife can get out. After his wife and daugter go to work and school. I really clean out his driveway. Then I clean mine and a couple of others. I had a health issue a little while back. He told my wife to call him if she needs anything. He told her, I've taken care of his family enough times. The best thing is we don't keep track of who has done what for who. It just gets done. :thumbsup:

I live in the country and the way it is around here is that often times, you don't even know who to thank. A fence will be repaired, a tree moved from the roadway, driveway plowed etc. and you will never know who did it. I have bush hogged neighbors plots, roadways etc and they have done mine. Nobody keeps count or expects payback, it just is the way it is and we love it that way.

 

[wvpolekat]

TripleR and Nuffer nailed it. I never did it expecting anything in return. I would have never expected him to plow my drive. I just did it because I know that it needed to be done and I could help him out. Just the way I was raised.

I think that the key thing is neither of us ASKED or EXPECTED the other to do something. We saw a way we could be helpful and did it. Even if he had offered me something for doing it, I would have turned it down, only asking him to help someone else out if he could.

I hope I am passing these values on to my son by example, and I think the TBN community as a whole has these same values. Just wish that more people as a whole had them and passed them on.

Last year, I was driving down I-79 with both boys in the truck. We see a tractor/trailer tire bouncing down the road, across the median, across the oncoming lanes, up a hill, back down, across our lanes, coming to rest on the shoulder.

I sped up knowing that whoever lost it wasn't far. I found a truck missing the passenger side duals on the rear trailer axle. I flagged the driver down and he stopped. I told him what I saw and pointed out his lack of wheels. He was mortified that someone had gotten hurt. After assuring him that nobody did that I saw, he asked if I could run him back up the road to fetch his wayward tire(s). I told him I would. We went back and loaded up the one we could find. Took him back to his rig, helped him load the tire in his trailer. He repeatedly offered me money, and I declined. I simply told him to help someone else out when he could. He made a couple of calls to locate someplace to get it serviced, I gave him some directions and we parted ways.

Sometimes, you just do what is the kind thing to do in the hopes that the person you helped will remember it when they see someone else they could help. Kind of a "pay it forward" attitude.

 

[s78wingrider]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: