FknBucky

So I get home from work and decide to take the dogs out for a walk yesterday.  I’m rushing around the house, to switch the laundry, grab my balls, and make sure I have poop bags.  Yep I’m a real wild guy these days.  I used to make sure I had weed bag, now I don’t leave the house without a plastic poop bag.  What a difference a few years make. 

So I get everything together and I chuck one of my balls out into the yard.  Of course the little dog my roommate named BO-BO just looks at me and it.  In fact both dogs do.  They will chase that damn ball all day and night unless I really want them to get it, like when it’s on a hill and I have to risk becoming a quad to get to it.  When I REALLY want them to pick that damn ball up they sit down next to me staring at me and it like “We see it too”. 

 To make matters a bit more interesting a little old lady in a walker was coming towards me on the sidewalk.  Not at a fast pace dipshit, but I did start thinking she was going to risk death by walking on the slope to get that ball.  A super old lady with a walker versus a cripple in wheelchair to get a ball, as two dogs look on, is just one of the many fascinating moments of life that we all seem to busy to pay attention to anymore.

I decided I had to push up the hill and get it.  Grass is tall and the genius dogs are just watching me with tails a wagging.  I get to the ball, somehow make it up to the sidewalk, and just smile with relief that I didn’t fall out of my chair in front my speedy friend.  The little old lady is watching the whole thing with a huge smile of amazement.  I’m her little crippled hero.  The sun is going down, I have my new friend Helen chatting me up, and my roommate is pulling in the driveway.  So much shit going on and all I want to do is walk the damn dogs. 

When did life get so complicated?  I don’t get it.  I used to worry about who was going to buy me some beer and hopefully find some chick dumb enough to like me for the night.  Within a few moments I’m stressing out and thinking why is this old lady blocking the whole sidewalk and now she is going to start asking me questions.  The first words out of her mouth were simply “beautiful day isn’t it?” I replied “yes”.  She smiled and said that she was happy to say hello and that it would give her something to think about later.

I instantly knew that the next 5 minutes of my precious life were much better spent talking with Helen P than they would be rushing away thinking “doesn’t that old lady know how busy I am?”  She told me “that if she doesn’t get out and walk everyday, one day she won’t be able to.  This woman is for sure in her 90’s and lives alone.  I know what you’re thinking, but don’t waste your time, we already went through her house and took everything of value. 

She offered me some oranges from the citrus trees in her front yard and said she would drop some off next time she was in the neighborhood.  As I get ready for my usual Tuesday night of volunteering at the Children’s Hospital here in San Diego I ask you “what have you done today, this week, this month, this year that qualifies as a complete selfless act for someone you’ve never met. 

No rant today, just a simple message of make the world a better place by doing something.  Stop waiting for someone else to do it and that includes the government.  Get off your lazy ass and find a place to volunteer.  Find an elderly person that just wants to hear a kind voice.  Find something.  I’m not one to boast of such things, but I can say this one time.  If I can do it anyone can. 

Fknbucky