GOOD DEEDS!

So, I was walking into the market and these 4 boys who were hanging out at the door, said “Good morning sir.” I said “Howdy partners.”, and, noting that they were Boy Scouts, went in and did my hunt and gather thing.

On the way out, they asked me if I wanted to support the Boy Scouts. I said, “nope.” I walked back to my car, and deposited my gather in Wezkuhl’s trunk, (that’s my Prius’ name). I had to go to the store next to the market to gather some other stuff, and as I walked by the Boy scouts, I decided that I would ask them how their boy scouting was going.

I stopped in front of them and said, “ O.K. you guys, I have a few questions for you.” They all said, “yeah”. I looked at the biggest kid. He was about 12 maybe 13. I asked him, “Did you do a good deed to day?” He looked shocked and said, “good question!” He looked sort of blank and then he said, kind of excited, “Yeah. This morning, my brother wanted to go to an antique show, but he would have had to spend most of his time here. I told him I would do it for him.”

“Excellent!” I said and turned to the next kid.

“What about you, brother?” He looked all sheepish and said, “I haven’t done one yet.” I said very good, the operative word there being YET!

The next kid also said he had not done one yet. I asked him if he didn’t think that being in front of the store raising money for the Boy Scouts was a good deed. He looked relieved and smiled.

The last kid was a little guy, maybe 7 or 8 but smallish of frame. “O.K. short round, how about you?” He started to say he had not done one and then said, “Wait! A shopping cart was rolling out into traffic, and I ran out and got it and parked it in the cart slot.” I said “Great.” I took out my money clip and peeled off a $20. “O.K. you guys, if you have change for a twenty I will support the boy scouts.

They instantly said they had change for a twenty, and started to walk around this big pillar that was behind us. When I went around the pillar, I saw three adults, a man and 2 women, sitting at a card table handling the money. I said, “Oh HI. I guess you heard my good deed quiz." They were, pleased, and smiling and indicated that they had.

On the way home I was thinking about this whole thing, about the spontaneousness of it all. And then got to thinking about good deeds. There are 6.5 billion humans on the planet. Eliminate the ones too young to do the good deed thing, and we have,say, 5 billion people. Supposing every single one of us did 1 good deed a day. That would be 5 billion good deeds. That would have to do something for the Common Good and the General Welfare… You think?