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For the past winter, I’ve been shoveling out my elderly neighbor’s driveway every time it snowed. She lives alone, and I leave for work at 6am anyway, so I’d just do hers first. 15 minutes, no big deal. She’d always wave from the window and mouth “thank you.”
Then in July I had to go out of state for a funeral. I texted her: “Hey, could you do me a huge favor and just grab my mail if it piles up? I’ll be gone 4 days.”
She called me back all cheerful and said, “Oh absolutely! My usual rate for mail watch is $60 for the week, but since you’re my neighbor I’ll do $60 for you.”
I laughed at first, thinking it was a joke. It wasn’t……
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