Humbled by my daughter

[Oakie]

Actually proud of both of them at different times for different reasons recently. This time it's daughter number two though. She's a postie / courier / newspaper deliverer and doesn't mind going the extra mile a bit. I got an e-mail from her telling me that one of her elderly clients made her day by leaving her a wee cake as a thank-you. I asked her for what and she sent the following:

"Yeah, I realised this morning some wisdom, which I shall now impart on you.

An act small and insignificant to you can mean a lot more to someone else than you realise.

It can turn looking for your Sunday paper from a cold wander down the drive and trying to find it in your garden, into opening your door, picking it up and going back inside.

My reason, as I have explained to you before, for delivering to the doors of the old folks is because of what mum told me when she broke her leg, that most elderly who fall and injure a hip/leg will never get out of hospital. To me it's just doing my bit to ensure that someones Grandma or Grandad doesn't end up in hospital because they slipped on ice going to get their paper.

This detour up their drives adds probably 90 seconds onto my day. Not a great deal to me, but I guess to these elderly people it makes them feel that one more person is caring for them and trying to make their day a bit easier, and hopefully they understand that is respect for them, not feeling sorry for them, that makes me want to do it.

There is no better reward than knowing you've made a difference to someones newspaper reading pleasure!"


Doing stuff like that is that it's how my Dad lived his life and it's how I've lived mine. It's just so cool so see that carrying on into another generation.

[98tls]

Very nice.

[caseye]

Awesome post mate, brilliant that your daughter ( this time) does it for the simple reason that it might stop another persons Gran or G/dad ending up hurt,alone and in pain, give her a great big hug from someone with an elderly Dad/ Grand dad to our girls and who thinks about this sort of thing happening to him, more often these days.
And who smiled as he read her reasons for taking the time, nodding sagely with a wee sand fly in me eye, I think it's a sand fly.Pesky blighters.

[buggerit]

you've reared a great member of society there, lots to be proud of.
I reckon there is more to being a human being than walking on your back legs.

[mashman]

Gawd I hope my kids carry that sort forethought with them in whatever they end up doing. Top job Ms Oakie, top job.

[Oakie]

Thank you folks! It's great watching your kids being kids but man it can still be rewarding when they're adults.

[ellipsis]

...if your kids don't humble you, teach you and sometimes make you introspectively reconsider through some thought or action...you've been doing it wrong...you must be doing it right...

[Bender]

So nice to read - and that's coming from someone whose mother has just broken her hip and will never leave hospital. Job well done by you and your daughter.

[Oakie]

Oh, and she's a biker too. She bought a scooter to do her postie run (no, not a CT). She's told me she wants to buy a real bike one day too.