Stories of Kindness from Around the World

The Wood Carver


--by amoskowitz, posted Aug 18, 2018
I had two job interviews yesterday morning. I decided to go to PF Chang's for a cup of hot and sour soup. Between my 2 locations sits a very old, homeless man who used to work and have his own business, and who is a veteran. He sits with a wooden sandwich board with messages on it in front of him on a table. He has his plastic bucket in front of that for people to donate. He made the sandwich board himself; he used to make furniture and still carves wood. He says politely to people who walk by him without giving him anything "G-d bless you" or "Have a blessed day" or other little sayings like that.

Yesterday I stopped and looked at his sandwich board. He had carved several really intricate Seahawks logos and painted them the Seahawk's blue and green. The messages on his sandwich board were all in Seahawk's blue and green. He even put tried painting blue and green stripes on his plastic bucket (they were wearing off). Not only did I gave him all my change, but I told him how much I liked his work. He sat back and laughed.
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Readers Comments

rapumpkim wrote: I wish you and that poor man many blessed days. I hope his luck changes for the better soon.
mish wrote: Way cool dude he be :)))
mindyjourney wrote: Love this!!! Thanks for noticing his handiwork and give him some change :)).
melnotes wrote: Thank you for sharing :)

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