So, I got into a hit and run where someone messed up my bumper and it misaligned my trunk too, so my trunk has been having trouble closing. I’ve basically been trying to MacGyver my trunk closed with different types of clips and bungee chords and different types of ropes, but basically I’ve just broken my license plate cover thing trying to secure it to that because there’s a lot of bumps in the road and because I’m not only disabled (and got denied disability because you always get denied the first time) and I’m getting less than 20 hours a week at my job without getting tips since I’m still considered “training”, I just don’t have the money to get it fixed. It’s been months of having this broken trunk and I’m pretty lucky that I haven’t had any cops pull me over and give me a fix it ticket for it coz it’s popped open On the road before multiple times. I’ve just used the “be confident and hopefully the confidence will make the cops go away”. It’s worked so far. Maybe between the pandemic and the protests and all the other shit, my trunk just isn’t a priority, I don’t know.

Anyways, the other day, I walk outside to go to work and my trunk has been magically fixed! Like, it’s closed and it’s not just closed with a rope and a clip. It’s actually completely closed and fixed and I have no idea who did it or how it happened and they didn’t leave a note and like, I’m so incredibly grateful that I wish they had left a note so I could at least thank them and offer to bake them cookies or something!

I have cameras out front, so I guess that I could try to see if maybe I could identify the person, but I’ll be honest - I’m a bad neighbor. I don’t know any of my neighbors really. I say hello to my neighbors when I see them, but I couldn’t tell you any of their names despite the fact that the woman and her husband that live across the street and one house to the left have lived there for the last 27 years of my life (and tattle tale on both my mom and me when they see us with men). My neighbor next door is a really hard working immigrant and he’s always very sweet when I see him. He always helps the lady on the corner with her trash cans. But, other than that, I don’t know anyone else, so I wouldn’t even know where to start!

So, this goes out to anyone who has done a good deed (and shown integrity when nobody else was looking). You are appreciated and you are important and you have made someone’s life better and easier and helped someone so much more than you could have ever imagined. Thank you!