The Brick
A young and successful executive was
traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new
Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from
between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his
car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side
door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag
back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver then jumped
out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car
shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are
you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of
money. Why did you do it?"
The young boy was apologetic. "Please,
mister...please! I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do," he pleaded.
"I threw the brick because no one else would stop!"
With tears dripping down his face and off
his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my
brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his
wheelchair and I can't lift him up." Now sobbing, the boy asked the
stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his
wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to
swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the
handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief
and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was
going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful
child told the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply
watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward
their home. It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very
noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door.
He kept the dent
there to remind him of this message "Don't go through life so fast that
someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"
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