Posted by:
Dave the Atheist
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Date: May 17, 2020 02:44PM
Tevye writes ...
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" Jake Bland has two roles at his job at Hometown Hauling, a refuse collection company in Louisville, Kentucky.
He’s the operations manager and he’s also on the truck picking up his customers trash.
He noticed that one of those on his route, an elderly single woman, hadn’t put out her trash for two weeks...he felt...he knew...that something just wasn’t right. So instead of just moving along without a second thought, he called his dispatcher, Bernice Arthur, and voiced his concerns.
She called the 90 year old customer and was relieved that she answered the phone, but was heartbroken when she found out why she hadn’t taken out her trash.
She didn’t have any.
Said Bernice, "She just didn't have nothing to eat….and that's why she had no trash to put out there."
For over two weeks, because her caregiver quit over pandemic fears, she had no way to get food or even leave the house, as she is wheelchair bound.
And she ran out of food.
Ten days before.
"She has no family, nobody.
I said, ‘You do have a family now.’”
After his shift, Jake returned to her house and told her to please compile a grocery list, which she did.
But it was too short, so he asked her to please add more to the list.
But it was still too short.
He asked permission to look in her fridge and kitchen cabinets, and when she said yes and he did….they were empty.
He then gently insisted that she go to town and really compile a list, with his assistance.
When Jake was satisfied that the list was now complete, he then went shopping and delivered the car load to ‘Mrs.W.’
Paid for by the company.
Said Bernice, "Had we not reached out to her….she wasn't reaching out to anyone, and it taught me, regardless, check on them. Put something on their porch. Let them know."
And the company vowed to check on the many elderly and disabled customers that they have, as throughout the country, many of these brothers and sisters are struggling to get food.
Even more so than they usually do.
And that they will check on Mrs. W every week.
And as Jake observed, "It was even in a nice neighborhood. You never know what's going on in your neighbor's house."