The Kindness of a Stranger

Something really neat happened to me today. When I left for the morning it was kind of wet outside, it had just stopped raining. During the day it was really nice and warm. I had to stay at school a bit later than usual and during that time it started pouring outside. I didn't dress for heavy rain, I didn't have a hat, my shoes were not very good and I don't even own an umbrella.

Well, the sun was going down and it was getting colder and pouring rain, and since I had to stay later I had to wait longer for the bus because it is less frequent after a certain time. By the time I got down to the bus stop by toes were wet and my hair was dripping. I still had about 20 minutes to wait for the bus when a really nice car made a U-Turn and started pulling over by me. I started to get nervous about who this person might be because I didn't recognize him. Then he rolled down the window and handed me his umbrella. How neat. He saved me from getting completely soaked and kept the wind off of me as well. He even saved my books and papers in my backpack that was getting soaked. It kind of reminded me of that TV commercial where people do good things for each other and pass it along. Very neat.