Doing the Right Thing

A young man did the right thing and I’m glad I witnessed it.

A vehicle trying to park at a local mall ran into a parked car. I thought the driver had driven away.

I soon discovered him walking with his female friend about to put a “contact” note on the windshield of the car his vehicle hit.

I told him that he was a good man, there is good karma in what he did and also there was little damage to the other car. The parked car was also a bit over the parking line.

It was nice to see such honesty as he easily could have driven off as someone, who once hit my car while I was driving, had done.

The honesty evoked memories of Jean Stapleton as “Edith Bunker,” on “All in the Family,” leaving a note on a car she damaged.

“Edith’s accident,” all stemmed, as she told us in her inimitable way, from peaches in some liquid form, as I recall.