What Goes Around Came Around.

I think you've got plenty of good karma coming your way. You're a good man.

good story jjj,and I have seen alot of what goes around etc. and you are deserving of any good thing that comes your way

Great story jjj,
Perhaps your compassion and generosity past enables you to accept it now from others -- No small feat to be sure.
Best wishes,
Jim

Thank you for sharing that story with us Joe.  Accept the help, you need it and clearly you have good people around you willing to offer it.  No doubt it is because of your kindess to them, and the stranger. 

Nice story jjj my parents always brought me up to believe good people always triumphed in the end , the way this world is lately i wonder if they would think the same now, i`m sure the guy really appreciated your gesture and enjoyed playing his accordian .

Great story Joey.  On the other hand sometimes what goes around just goes.........

Several years ago I bought my father-in-law's old pop-up camper after he passed away.  None of my wife's brothers or sisters wanted it so my mother-in-law was going to give it to me but I insisted on paying her the blue-book wholesale price of $700 as she needed the money.  I spent a couple hundred more on new tires, etc as the canvas was still good and it was in decent shape. I used it a few times but it was a large pop-up and quite a load to pull up and down hills behind my little 4-cylinder Subaru, so I was thinking of selling it and use the money as a down payment on a new smaller and lighter unit.  I was camping along a local stream and was getting ready to fold it up and head home when I saw an old guy I knew try to set up a small tent at a nearby campsite.  He had recently had one leg amputated at the knee due to diabetes and was struggling with his gear.  I invited him to use my camper and he accepted.  When I went back to pick it up a few days later he was raving about how much easier it was to camp in the pop-up instead of a tent and said he was thinking about getting one. I told him mine was for sale and for him I'd let it go for $400.  He said he'd think about it as money was a little tight as he was trying to pay his doctor bills, etc.  After I pulled the camper back home I discussed it with my wife.  The old guy was a navy veteran just like my father-in-law so we decided to just give it to him in appreciation for his service.  I called him and made the offer but he was too proud to accept so I offed to trade for his old tent.  After some thought he agreed.

A couple years later I ran into him.  He used the camper to take his grand kids on a Florida vacation and thanked me again.  I'm glad he enjoyed it as a year later he passed away.

Last year I took my grand kids on a camping and rafting trip in WV.  I brought a couple tents for my daughter and her family and decided to also bring the old tent I had traded for as it had been in the garage for years and I'd never used it.  The first night we camped there was a bad rain storm.  My daughter, son-in-law and grand kids weathered it just fine in the tents i brought for them.  I had to get up in the middle of the night and crawl into my truck.  The old tent I'd traded for leaked like a sieve............

DE

Hey Dirty Ed, I'll give you a leaky tent if you're collecting those these days.