Somebody raised that boy right
Not everyone would have done the same thing
Early on the evening of June 1st, at approximately 5:30 to 6 PM, I witnessed something that was real-world heroic.
I was driving out Division Street heading down the hill passed Harvey’s on the right and Canadian Tire on the left. Traffic was as bumper-to-bumper as it always is that time of day. Suddenly, a woman crossing from the left to the right with what appeared to be an arm full of groceries lost her footing and went down as traffic approached.
In approximately the same amount of time that it took me to hit my brakes and wince, the truck in front of me turned decisively to a position blocking both lanes. He had a large truck of the type that country boys so often drive. And there we sat, the lineup growing exponentially.
After several beats, the young man with the big truck came walking with the woman holding her groceries escorting her to safety on the right-hand side of the street. He was calm and unhurried. One car started to creep up and tried to get by him, but he walked calmly back to his big truck, unhurried and unbothered by the traffic that he had stopped to save the woman.
I beeped my horn at him and he looked up with a facial expression that was prepared for the wrath of an angry mob. I smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up.
Somebody raised that boy the right way. The poise to block both lanes the patience to help someone to safety and the thick skin to tolerate any blowback that might’ve come from people who don’t like to be held up for anything when in traffic.
I hope this makes it back to him. I already know what a young man like that will say: “It was nothing. Anybody would’ve done the same thing.”
And to that I would say: IT WAS SOMETHING and NOT EVERYONE WOULD’VE DONE THE SAME THING.
On the rest of the drive home, I talked to my granddaughter about that young man and how brave he was and how smart he was. When we got home, she then told her mother about it and so on.
I’m just happy to pass the word and I hope he hears about it.
—David Clark, Kingston and Surrounding Area Facebook page
