I can’t believe …
Recently my little car went needed a small repair that should have taken a day (or 2 if a part needed to be ordered) but it took a full week. This was due to clerical errors and mistakes at the garage – but that’s for another time (maybe).
What ‘I can’t believe’ is the kindness of friends, neighbours, work colleagues and nodding acquaintances. I live on the edge of a village, the nearest shop is a mile away, work is half a mile away and my ponies are in a field just over a mile from home. Yes, all within walking distance without my car, and I love to walk – but this area is a produce growing area and the roads were not built for vehicles like modern tractors and large lorries and the thought of walking along the grass verges was quite worrying. Besides how was I going to get water to the field for the ponies!
Without being asked, and as soon as he noticed my car was missing, my neighbour jumped straight in and took water to the field nearly every day and when he couldn’t friends helped. Work colleagues ran me home at lunch time to see to my dogs and were just a phone call away when I was ready to go back. Even people I have just nodded to over the years took the time to pick me up and run me to the shop or work if the saw me walking down the road.
None of them wanted or asked for anything – they just did it out of kindness.
Sometimes in this world you can feel very isolated, it is good to be reminded that people are out there that who will always help if they can.
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Hello Beth, what a refreshing story to read, and such a change from stories of muggings, break ins violence………it can be very difficult in isolated rural areas where transport is minimal, but I think very often in times of trouble communities do pull together and offer help, perhaps more so in smaller villages than in the Towns and Cities where everyone tends to go about their own business………good on your friends and neighbours………hope your poorly car will soon be well again….xx
Agree with VonM… City Folk a different yoke, too busy looking after Selfs, competition for Space and All a Must! In the Country, more space to care and one loves to do for another, feels good.
Very true what Star is saying Beth. But here in Germany that will happen to people who have been born in the village seldom for city dwellers.