Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Two men

There are two men on our street who specialize in random acts of kindness. One cleans people's porches of unwanted take-out menus and newspapers. The other buys bouquets of flowers and gives them to strangers. For a while, the second man would leave single flowers on people's doorsteps; but then the first man would go around and pick them all up and dump them into a compost bin. So the second man had to adjust: he started wrapping the flowers in paper and attach little notes to the bow. The first man never touches the wrapped bundles with personal notes stuck to the bow.

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