LOST PURSE STARTS CHAIN REACTION OF KINDNESS; WOMEN SPREAD SUNSHINE THROUGH VALLEY.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
She sat waiting for a ride home on a bench in front of a Van Nuys supermarket last week - a senior citizen looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the 420 bus to arrive before the two gallons of ice cream she had just bought on sale for $2.99 each melted all over the dozen eggs she picked up for 49 cents - with a coupon. It was the end of a long, hot day in the Valley, and Sally just wanted to get home, turn on the air, rub her sore feet, and have a nice bowl of chocolate mint ice cream. She had no idea that the grief and frustration she was about to encounter at the other end of the line would lead to the beginning of a warm friendship and lesson in goodwill. A lesson in kindness and courtesy extended a stranger by strangers. An old lesson so rarely practiced these days, it seems to surprise us when it happens. ``When the bus finally arrived, a nice young man at the other end of the bench offered to help me get the airline cart I use to go shopping up on the bus,'' Sally said Wednesday, requesting I not use her real, full name. ``As I was turning to see how he was doing getting the cart up the stairs, I got in the way of two African-American ladies getting off the bus. I apologized for being in their way, and they just smiled and said it was OK. ``It wasn't until I got off the bus at my stop, and was met by a young man asking me for some change, that I realized I had left my purse on the bus bench at the market,'' Sally said. Later, she would find out that one of the women she had bumped into while getting on the bus had seen the purse sitting on the bench, but it was too late to stop the bus, so she took it home with her. ``I don't drive, so the only identification I had was my bank card and a post office box I have,'' Sally said. ``There was no address, no phone number or any way anyone would know how to get in touch with me.'' Also in her purse were the nitroglycerin nitroglycerin (nī'trōglĭs`ərĭn), C3H5N3O9, colorless, oily, highly explosive liquid. It is the nitric acid triester of glycerol and is more correctly called glycerol trinitrate. pills she took for her angina Angina Definition Angina is pain, "discomfort," or pressure localized in the chest that is caused by an insufficient supply of blood (ischemia) to the heart muscle. , a heart condition. Sally started to panic, feeling her heart racing. She waved down a passing police car and told them what had happened. ``They brought me home, put the ice cream in the freezer freezer the compartment in which meat and offal are stored at freezing temperatures of 10 to 16°F (-12 to -9°C) although there is a trend to lower temperatures of 0 to -22°F (-18 to -30°C). , the eggs in the refrigerator, and waited while I took the nitro nitro abbreviation of nitrogen. Usually taken to indicate the presence of an -NO2 radical. nitro-chalk a fertilizer in the form of lime or chalk mixed with ammonium nitrate. pills I had at home. They wouldn't leave until they were sure I was OK. ``They were such nice, young officers, and the next day I called the watch commander at the Van Nuys police station to commend com·mend tr.v. com·mend·ed, com·mend·ing, com·mends 1. To represent as worthy, qualified, or desirable; recommend. 2. To express approval of; praise. See Synonyms at praise. 3. them,'' Sally said. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , the women who had found Sally's purse were looking for her. The first place they stopped by was Sally's bank, giving an officer there her ATM card An ATM card (also known as a bank card, client card, or cash card) is an ISO 7810 card issued by a bank, credit union or building society. Its primary uses are: ``I got a call from someone at my bank who said that two nice ladies had found my purse, and that I should call them to get it back,'' Sally said. ``I was so thrilled. I thought I'd never see it again.'' They made arrangements to meet at a local DASH bus stop Monday, and take the transport over to the Fashion Square shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into so they could have lunch in the food court there. They were quite a sight, Sally said Wednesday, laughing - three senior citizen women hugging and kissing and carrying on in the mall like long-lost friends. Two African-American, deeply Christian women, Sally says, each holding an arm of their new Jewish senior citizen friend, who had lost her purse. ``We wound up talking about so many things - our religions, and our feelings about how people treat each other in society today,'' Sally said, growing serious. ``The kindness and courtesy they extended me is so rarely found today that when it is offered, it catches you by surprise. Isn't that sad? ``But when I look back on this whole episode, every step along the way, people were gentle, loving, kind and helpful. And, isn't that great for a change?'' With that, Sally goes back to her sewing, making a couple of butterfly blouses for her two new friends, one of whom is returning soon to England where she lives. ``I want her to remember me every time she wears the blouse,'' Sally says. ``I want her to shake her head and laugh at the dummy Sham; make-believe; pretended; imitation. Person who serves in place of another, or who serves until the proper person is named or available to take his place (e.g., dummy corporate directors; dummy owners of real estate). she met in America who left her purse on the bus bench.'' |
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