In the past 2 weeks I have done two good deeds for my fellow neighbors, but have not seen something good in return, in fact the opposite has happened.
The Sunday after we came back from vacation I saw a little white dog wandering up and down our street, a dog I didn't recognize so I got in my car to follow it and when I found it again it let me approach it and I saw that it didn't have a collar on. So I took it home to try and give it some water as it was really hot out that day. Got the boys and Dave in the car and we drove around the neighbors asking certain people if they knew who owned the dog. Finally we found the owner and returned the dog to her.
Then last week when I was going grocery shopping I noticed a checkbook laying in the middle of the road. So I stopped and picked it up. Luckily the checks had the owner's name and address on them so I drove to return the checkbook to the owner. Still don't know how someone's checkbook ends up in the middle of the street about 1/4 mile from their home.
So those were my two good deeds and I really didn't expect anything special or nice to happen in return it just felt good to help someone. Well I really wasn't ready for what happened to me this past Thursday. My mom and I had gone to the outlets with the boys and on our way home after turning into our development something came flying and hit my windshield, scaring everyone. At first I thought it was a water balloon, but after stopping and pulling over I realized it was an egg as I saw shells on the street and could tell by the splatter on my car. I then proceeded to go look in the backyard of the house that it happened in front of but there was no one back there. So I proceeded to the front door to talk to the parents and tell them what happened. Of course no one answered the door, but there were three kids' bikes laying on the front lawn so I knew someone was there. We left and proceeded home. Luckily a neighbor of ours is friends with my mom and he was kind enough to clean the egg off of my car before it got "cooked" on anymore.
That night Dave went over to the house 3 different times to speak to someone but no one ever answered the door. He tried again on Friday and Saturday and got the same results. He will try again tonight and if the same results happen then a letter will be written.
It was quite scary and when we stopped there on Saturday Dylan didn't want us to because he was afraid it would happen again.
1 comment:
wow that stinks! first off very kind of you to do those two other things especially having to get the whole family in the car to find the dog's own.
I'll try put a good spin on this egg thing....?
Maybe, just MAYBE, karma WAS working...and if you did not get hit with the egg...and didn't pull over to inquire about the culprit, maybe you would have been farther down the road, and something crazier or scarier could have happened to you....worse than an egg....yeah it's dumb to think like that...but karma works is weird ways...i think...? possibly why you are having trouble finding out and/or talking to the owners of the house.
wacky i know...i usually don't think this way...so take it with a grain of salt.
Personally I would be miffed, pissed, and determined to correct the wrong that had happened :-)
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