AFSCME Sanitation Worker and a three-year-old girl Goes Viral

[Omaha Steve]

Sanitation worker Delvar Dopson and 3-year-old Brooklyn Andracke. (Photo courtesy Traci Andracke)


http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-sanitation-worker-goes-viral


BY ANDERS LINDALL | MAY 31, 2016

When the special friendship between a three-year-old girl and an AFSCME Local 699 sanitation worker in Bloomington, Illinois, went viral, the world got a lesson in kindness—not to mention the humanity of the working men and women we rely on to provide public services every day.

Every Thursday morning for the past year, Delvar Dopson would drive his garbage truck down little Brooklyn Andracke’s street. Dopson would honk his horn and flash his headlights, and the toddler would smile and wave.

“It was really cute,” Delvar says. “I would tell my wife about it every week.”

One day in April after Brooklyn’s birthday, Dopson arrived to find Brooklyn and her mom waiting on the curb. Turns out the little girl wanted to share one of her birthday cupcakes with her friend.

FULL story at link. OS is a proud AFSCME retiree.

[lunatica]

1. Great story!

the little girl probably does all kinds of things to make sure she's at her window at the right time. And there's probably nothing anyone can do to pull her away until she could wave to her friend.

[Omaha Steve]

2. Thanks for posting

OS

[irisblue]

3. birthday cake for a friend

[malaise]

4. Parents do matter

That is all

[MagickMuffin]

6. From the article

“I have to say it: I’m a black man, I’m 6 foot 3 and I have dreads. I might be unapproachable to some white people, especially a white woman. But this is a family that’s teaching their little girl not to see any of those barriers, of class, race, gender or anything. I want to lift up that parenting as an example, more than anything I’ve done.”

[malaise]

7. You see

Some choose to spread hate - others treat others as equals. That's the America I love.

[madokie]

5. Its the little things

like this that truly warms the heart.

so beautiful