Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/17/alabama-college-student-walks.html
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It’s a nice story. I really wish people would be their best selves more often.
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Hey universe, More stories like this please and thank you.
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There is sometimes heart in small business. I think this would not have happened if he walked all night for an Amazon job.
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Not only that, but they didn’t shoot him.
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But the poors are lazy!
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I live in Pelham and I’m very proud to live here…it’s a small town about 15 miles south of Birmingham, with a nice spread of income and demographics…and we just got a ‘mostly empty’* new Library. And I like the cops here, not that I get pulled over a lot, but every interactions with them has been pleasant.
*They had a library that was very small and the city counsel funded the new 2 story building. It’s mostly their previous collection moved into larger space, so it looks a bit barren. They’re also have a ‘maker space’ Which needs more stuff…I didn’t see the 3D printer when I walked in…just some mindstorm robotics stuff, but it’s a space to be filled eventually. http://www.pelhamlibrary.com/Default.asp?ID=2&pg=Home
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No kidding? I went to high school at PHS in the eighties, and lived down hwy 119. Small world!
A heartwarming story that would have been rendered unnecessary by decent public transportation. Walking 7 hours to get to work. It’s the absurdity of living in a society built around private automobiles, but where those automobiles are far from a given for many people.
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I’ve heard so many stories about the precariat where a busted car leads to a spiral of lost jobs and homelessness and police harrasment that this is a pleasant change. From the cops to the client to the employer to the young man himself this was a perfect storm of the kind of human decency that’s been missing from our public discourse.
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Lived there for 11 years, still kinda miss it. Yes, it’s one of a string of 'burbs south of Birmingham, but it felt like living in a small town. The cashiers at the grocery store knew and recognized my daughter from infancy. My car repair shop was within walking distance from home. Our pest control guy’s regular job was as a city firefighter. The fire department drove the big engines around most of the neighborhoods on Christmas Eve evening with a Santa Claus on top. It wasn’t until we moved away that we realized how cozy our everyday life was there.
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Damnit people, be more like this Robert Fulgham-level twee crap more of the time.
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Not only that, when his story checked out they bought him breakfast and then drove him the rest of the way so he’d be on time.
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Waiting for Trump to take credit for this, too.
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Obviously his tax cuts allowed the CEO to afford to give away a car. Besides, Obama was the reason the first car broke down.
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Why these stories exist:
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But I would walk 20 miles
And I would walk home 20 more
Just to be the student who walks twenty miles
To fall down at your door
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Now there is a headline that cuts both ways.
No matter how far and how hard some try to sink this Nation, we all know the way back.
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