I read an article in Uplifting News the other day - it was about an elderly woman who fell and broke her leg while hiking, and a whole band of people helped carry her down the mountain and to the hospital.
There’s an awful lot of bad news out there, and it often feels like humanity is failing each other. But at least in this story, absolute strangers came together to help someone who couldn’t help themselves. I cried happy tears.
There’s a short stretch of road on the way to camp that’s always been a sand trap, but lately it had become almost impassable.
Whenever someone is stuck, people come out the woods and start shoveling and hooking up tow straps. Pulled up last week to 3 vehicles, grabbed my shovel and walked up, “OK. Which one’s stuck?” “Bro, we all stuck.” “OK, who’s first?”
There were two white girls stuck in an AWD drive vehicle. One of the guys got them into AWD mode and they drove it out. A black family was stuck in a medium-sized car and the neighbor used a 4x4 (which he keeps in the weeds for just such cases) to lever the ass end off the ground. Our local Boomhauer backed his 4WD up and yanked another truck out. I stood there with my shovel mostly being useless.
Never gone 15-minutes stuck without a helpful redneck pulling up. One of the guys on the road just dropped a dump truck full of red clay and packed it into a little hill! Should be good for a long time. The guy next to my lot is poor as a church mouse, and not in great health, but he drives his little POS tractor down the roads pushing the sand to the side. Not long ago the road collapsed where I turn just past the trap, so bad even my ancient F150 would bottom out. Someone got out there and removed all the broken asphalt and smoothed it over, that was serious work! (I should note, this is a private dirt road in the boondocks, no city or state assistance.)
I wonder why we don’t have an active HumansBeingBros style community here on Lemmy yet. The Wholesome community does fairly well, but HBB was one of reddit’s largest subs.
I read an article in Uplifting News the other day - it was about an elderly woman who fell and broke her leg while hiking, and a whole band of people helped carry her down the mountain and to the hospital.
There’s an awful lot of bad news out there, and it often feels like humanity is failing each other. But at least in this story, absolute strangers came together to help someone who couldn’t help themselves. I cried happy tears.
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There’s a short stretch of road on the way to camp that’s always been a sand trap, but lately it had become almost impassable.
Whenever someone is stuck, people come out the woods and start shoveling and hooking up tow straps. Pulled up last week to 3 vehicles, grabbed my shovel and walked up, “OK. Which one’s stuck?” “Bro, we all stuck.” “OK, who’s first?”
There were two white girls stuck in an AWD drive vehicle. One of the guys got them into AWD mode and they drove it out. A black family was stuck in a medium-sized car and the neighbor used a 4x4 (which he keeps in the weeds for just such cases) to lever the ass end off the ground. Our local Boomhauer backed his 4WD up and yanked another truck out. I stood there with my shovel mostly being useless.
Never gone 15-minutes stuck without a helpful redneck pulling up. One of the guys on the road just dropped a dump truck full of red clay and packed it into a little hill! Should be good for a long time. The guy next to my lot is poor as a church mouse, and not in great health, but he drives his little POS tractor down the roads pushing the sand to the side. Not long ago the road collapsed where I turn just past the trap, so bad even my ancient F150 would bottom out. Someone got out there and removed all the broken asphalt and smoothed it over, that was serious work! (I should note, this is a private dirt road in the boondocks, no city or state assistance.)
I wonder why we don’t have an active HumansBeingBros style community here on Lemmy yet. The Wholesome community does fairly well, but HBB was one of reddit’s largest subs.