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I picked up a hitchhiker once. I lived in a log cabin about 30 miles outta town, and on the way he told me his story.
He'd been travelling around the states, and was on his way back to Alaska, and got mugged and had all his $$ taken and was hitching his way back through Canada to Alaska. This is a long route folks. Probably better than 4,000 km.
It was near 11:00 PM, so I invited him to spend the night at my cabin. (Later as I went to sleep I was a little nervous about this, but things were OK)
I really had no real food in the cabin, as I mostly ate in town, but I don't think this guy had seen much food on a lot of his journey. He ate and ate. We had some creative uses of available groceries.
In the morning, I packed him the best lunch I could find in a sack, and slipped in the cash I had in my pocket before he headed off down the highway.
There were tears in his eyes as he thanked me and we parted the next morning.
I sincerely hope that small kindnesses like this can be passed on from person to person making the entire human race just a little kinder to each other.
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