For years, in the rain or cold, Bill Moczulewski walked six miles to work at the local Walmart as a nightshift janitor—but that all changed the day a woman stopped and offered him a ride.
Christy Conrad learned that despite being legally blind he possessed a steadfast determination to trudge in any kind of weather in order to work.
“I picked him up in nine degrees the other morning,” said Christy, who also learned that he used to ride a bike until he got hit by a car.
But Christy has her own family and couldn’t always be there, so she started a Facebook group to seek other volunteers who could give him a lift.
Mr. Bill’s Village soon attracted over a thousand members who wanted to keep an eye out for the man walking in a camouflage jacket at sunset or sunrise.
One group member said it’s now like a competition, ‘Who can give Bill a ride today?’
“There’s a lot of good people in this world, all over the place,” Bill told Steve Harman and his CBS News crew who recently visited Cabot, Arkansas, to tell the heartwarming story.
After seeing the TV news story shared across the world, Christy cried—but all “happy tears”.
“I hope if anyone takes anything from this, it would be: use the Golden Rule. Treat others the way you would want to be treated,” she wrote on the Mr. Bill’s Village Facebook Page.
“When you see a need, fill it if possible!”
Chris Puckett, the local owner of Puckett Auto Group, saw a way he could help. He wanted to gift Bill a vehicle, but since he’s not allowed to drive, the car was donated to Christy—a fitting example of the old adage, ‘It takes a village.’
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