I Always Wanted To Be An Angel

--by doowyah, posted Mar 28, 2007

I was walking from my office to my car during rush hour at the end of work day in San Francisco.   As I waited at the corner of 3rd and Folsum for the light to change, I noticed a car about to go through the intersection. The driver looked harried and was talking on his cell phone.

As he accelerated through the intersection, papers and a manilla folder began swirling and flying out the window.   The driver was clearly dismayed, but given the traffic and the one-way street, he simply pulled over a few blocks down.

As the light changed, other pedestrians stomped the papers into mud puddles in their rush to cross the street.   Looking at the drivers panic stricken face, I decided to try to pickup as many papers as possible before the light turned and cars started running them over.   I noticed these paper looked like the papers I signed when I bought my house.

As the driver came up to me to get the papers he said "You are an angel, You are an angel."

Hearing that made me feel better than I had in weeks.

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Posted by doowyah
Mar 28, 2007
Comments (20)

Readers Comments

lukeyluke wrote: That is a great story.

asdf wrote: Good for you! it's so easy just to walk away but you didn't. :)

gine wrote: HI THERE.SO GOOD TO SEE HOW SMALL THINGS MAY LIGHTEN UP OTHER PEOPLE'S LIFES.KEEP IT GOING...REALLY TOUCHED ME WITH YOUR STORY.MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR GOOD DEED.TAKE CARE.GINE

writingmomma wrote: The world is a better place because of people like you. How sad, that the other pedestrians stomped the papers into the mud. You truly was in the right place at the right time. If that isn't an angel, I don't know what is.

LOVEBUG wrote: You could be my hero or at the very least a Knight in Shining Armour

maddy wrote: That was really nice of you to do.Most people would just walk away

sparticus wrote: I'm glad you made a difference for that person that one day. acts of kindness are like those papers in a sense. the world is full of papers flaoting every where and very few people take the time to stop and pick them up. but it always makes a difference to some one.

icda wrote: May God help you achieve your dream.Because God help those who help others.

babatunde wrote: Well you have done something that only happens with good and kind people with great spirit,keep it up

guin wrote: beautiful story!
It was really amazing of you to actualyl stop and do what other people may have simply ignored.

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