Hey - would folks like to hear about how sometimes other humans are just awesome? I sure would! And, lucky me, I was the recipient this past weekend of some genuine human thoughtfulness!
I posted last week that we were experiencing, like many others, issues with hoarding in our small town. We have a Walmart, a small Piggly Wiggly, and a very small pharmacy that supply us and the neighboring areas. And all of them have been completely out of stock of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and every Lysol product for a while now. Being a moderately-sized household, we had decent supplies of those things. But having a critical medical provider in our household (my wife), we have been experiencing larger challenges for a longer period than most of our fellow citizens. We have adopted strict protocols governing how my wife leaves our house and returns after work, and how I conduct my weekly trip to the grocery store. Most items that come into our house are sanitized, and there is one entrance that we use exclusively for when one of us travels out into the world, and another that we use for low-risk stuff like taking the kids outside to play.
All of this has resulted in us running low on both hand sanitizer and Lysol, and with a dwindling supply of TP, with no local options for refilling these items. The two nearest population centers (30 mins east or 60 minutes west) have also been out of items, and have the added disadvantage of being, well, population centers, with lots more activity than our town (though much of that has ceased as of Saturday).
Anyway, after my post last week, I received a message from a fellow forum member. And shortly after the receipt of that message, I received this box in the mail, overnighted to us at no small expense from literally a thousand miles away:
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Inside:
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Toilet paper, nitrile gloves, Lysol disinfecting wipes, and several containers of hand sanitizer!
Simply amazing.
My wife, who is running absolutely ragged right now, wept. I teared up myself. Our small children were disappointed that there was nothing for them, for certainly a package so good as to make mama weep and papa's voice crack should contain something more exciting for toddlers than toilet paper and sanitizer! Maybe in later years, when we are swapping tales of the worst epidemic in our lives (for there will surely be a lot of tales told about this for the remainder of all of our lives), they will understand how this box brought their parents to tears.
This kind and generous spirited person refused to take any compensation for either the items or the shipping costs, and also asked to stay anonymous.
But I could not keep this story all to myself, especially when I think we all need to be reminded of the high capacity for goodness that some humans possess - that some people are caring and selfless in great measure, and expect nothing in return.
This human knows how big of a difference they made, and how their gift has had immediate and positive real-world consequences for a family in the trenches, but I thought you all should too!
We should all be so lucky to have half of that reservoir of goodness inside of us :rose: