The story is short. But the picture is worth – well – everything.
I was in a cab heading home from O’hare airport – a journey I make with regularity. The cab driver was polite. His car was clean. And I was settling in for my 25 minute ride home.
It was then that I noticed it. The sign. There were actually two of them. Identical. Laminated. And posted perfectly on the back side of the driver’s seat and front passenger’s seat:
I think I read it three or four times. The cynic in me was looking for something missing. There had to have been a catch.
But there wasn’t.
I snapped a photograph and posted it on my Facebook profile with a note, “Nominating my cab driver for today’s ‘act of kindness’ award.”
And within seconds my Facebook profile lit up like a switchboard. A reminder that most of us welcome a reminder of goodness, humanity and compassion.
One by one the comments and “likes” poured in.
“Your sign and message are awesome. Amazing,” I said to the cab driver.
And he told me the simple story of where it all began. Travelers were arriving hungry – especially many traveling international.
So this was his way to help.
Nothing more than that.
“Well, you are an inspiration,” I told him.
And he just smiled.
Another fare in the backseat. Nourished with kosher kindness.
Jim Higley is the Bobblehead Dad – author, speaker, radio show host, spokesperson and cancer warrior. A single father raising three kids, Jim’s book Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew