🚀 go-pugleaf

in my driveway!

As you know we got some snow yesterday/last night. We generally don't
worry about shovelling out the whole driveway; as many of you know,
we're car-free, so we maybe shovel out a path if we have time, no need
to shovel out the whole thing unless we're expecting guests. This
morning we did not have time, waded through snow past my knees and a
big snowbank nearly up to my thighs to get to the bus stop. We're OK
with that, we can deal.

Of course the darned snow was still there when we got home. If we want
to get any mail or get out without being soaked to the knees, we
needed to do something, so we grudgingly got out the shovel and
started working. I took the first turn, and figured my husband would
finish off what I didn't.

As I shovelled, the previously mentioned nice guy went by on the
street in one of those little Bobcat plows they use for plowing
sidewalks. He came up my way, opened his window and asked if I could
use a hand. I said sure! He asked if I was just making a path, and I
said yes, we have no car to worry about, just need to walk in and out.
I thought he meant he was just going to plow away the pile at the
bottom left by the street plows (which would have been fabulous all by
itself).

But no! This fabulous guy and his wee plow went all the way up my
driveway! He had to make two tries to get up to the top (it's steep),
and cleared a five foot wide path all the way up, dumped the snow
across the street! It took him about three minutes, but saved us about
a half hour of labour at least! What a great guy! He asked for nothing
in return. After I thanked him profusely he just said have a nice
evening and drove away.

MUCH better than two years ago when we got home after a snowfall and a
night out to find that someone had stolen both our shovels.

It was a kind thing to do.  If I had a snowblower, I'd be blowing out
the driveway next to me just to be nice to a neighbour. Wish there
were more strangers willing to do nice things for people, would make
the world a better place.