Snow Clearing

Earlier today I saw something that I haven’t seen for a while; someone putting themselves out to help others and for no acknowledgement, well not till now.
Travelling along the Aylesbury Road in the middle of the whiteout today (Friday) was a guy whom I assume was from ADH Window Cleaning (as the van was parked with lights flashing) shovelling grit onto the main road and the dangerous junction of Grenville Ave. He was obviously freezing cold but he kept shovelling and was still there on my return journey 45 minutes later. I stopped to ask him why he was doing it and he just said it was a job that needed to be done and thanked me for my interest and the fact I’d noticed. Apparently, very few people had and he’d even been accused of ruining the kids’ fun from the school as they walked past. He was also narrowly missed by a few people using mobile phones while driving in the bad weather.

There are few people around these days that will do a job like that for nothing and as such I felt he deserved recognition.