I feel like crying. (Not election related)

[Crunchy Frog]

A couple of weeks ago I was home alone with the two froglets. I went down to the basement to get something without remembering that I had locked the door from the other side (yeah, pretty dense). So anyways, I found myself locked in the basement with my two toddlers upstairs, and no way to get to them. I fortunately had a phone and a phone book down there, so started calling around to various locksmiths. I finally got one who said he could be right over and would charge $75.00 for the call. I had to go with him since one of my boys was already starting to sob on the other side of the door.

Anyway, long story short, he came and got into the house and let me out of the basement and I was able to get to my now hysterical toddler (the other toddler is more mellow). Then he went and made a copy of the key with a little storage pouch to keep in my basement so it wouldn't happen again. He didn't charge anything for that last part. I wrote him a check for $81.00 and that was the end.

Anyway, just opened the mail today and there was the check enclosed along with a nice note saying that they wouldn't charge me anything because of the circumstances and the kids.

So, these days it's hard to believe that there are still decent people in business, and it's easy to believe that the whole country is just generally mean and nasty, but this has kind of renewed my faith that there are decent people out there.