We hear it time and time again! When we ask the question, "What do you like most about Nova Scotia?", the majority of the time, the first answer is the PEOPLE. Salt of the earth, friendly kind of people. You'll meet them at our restaurants and pubs. You'll meet them at our museums (like these two gems I met at the Seal Island Lighthouse Museum in Barrington last year).
You'll meet them at our B&B's and our hotels. Occasionally, you'll even meet them on the side of the road. They come along especially when you need them!
Today is a Friday, like any Friday, the end of a hectic week. I ran out to pick up lunch and when I went to parallel park by the building a sleek black truck with some young whippersnapper pulled up beside me. (Yes, I said whippersnapper but no, people don't really talk like that anymore.) I thought, he probably is annoyed that this old bird took so long to parallel park. He's probably going to yell at me or give me the stink eye, I thought. But NO. He pulled beside me to tell me that my driver's side headlight was out. He then said he had the same car at home and was thinking he might have a spare headlight in his glove compartment. He was going to pull ahead in the parking lot and have a look. He did just that and came back with a set of lights. We popped the hood and they were the wrong fit. Key sera sera! He wasn't able to replace my light but he was able to make my day. When he was going to hand over his $60 set of headlights to this strange lady, he asked but one thing...PAY IT FORWARD. Well, what else would I do?
So Rob Burke from Chester, I am going to pay it forward in many ways, the first being this blog, I wanted to share your kindness with others on a Friday afternoon. I want to thank Rob for being one of the nice PEOPLE, that makes me realize how fortunate I am live in this beautiful place. If you know Rob, kindly share this with him. If you think what he did is nice, find a random act of kindness of your own and put it in motion this weekend.
Rob's act of kindness reminded me of one of my favourite video we featured in the iLove Nova Scotia contest. Just couple of friendly Irishmen sharing their own experience. I have linked to it many times before so some of you may have seen it. But those who haven't pass it on or pay it forward yourself.
You'll meet them at our B&B's and our hotels. Occasionally, you'll even meet them on the side of the road. They come along especially when you need them!Today is a Friday, like any Friday, the end of a hectic week. I ran out to pick up lunch and when I went to parallel park by the building a sleek black truck with some young whippersnapper pulled up beside me. (Yes, I said whippersnapper but no, people don't really talk like that anymore.) I thought, he probably is annoyed that this old bird took so long to parallel park. He's probably going to yell at me or give me the stink eye, I thought. But NO. He pulled beside me to tell me that my driver's side headlight was out. He then said he had the same car at home and was thinking he might have a spare headlight in his glove compartment. He was going to pull ahead in the parking lot and have a look. He did just that and came back with a set of lights. We popped the hood and they were the wrong fit. Key sera sera! He wasn't able to replace my light but he was able to make my day. When he was going to hand over his $60 set of headlights to this strange lady, he asked but one thing...PAY IT FORWARD. Well, what else would I do?
So Rob Burke from Chester, I am going to pay it forward in many ways, the first being this blog, I wanted to share your kindness with others on a Friday afternoon. I want to thank Rob for being one of the nice PEOPLE, that makes me realize how fortunate I am live in this beautiful place. If you know Rob, kindly share this with him. If you think what he did is nice, find a random act of kindness of your own and put it in motion this weekend.
Rob's act of kindness reminded me of one of my favourite video we featured in the iLove Nova Scotia contest. Just couple of friendly Irishmen sharing their own experience. I have linked to it many times before so some of you may have seen it. But those who haven't pass it on or pay it forward yourself.
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