Just when you think the world has gone to pot - when all you read about in the papers is murder, war, and natural disasters – when all you see on the streets are homeless drunks and scary guys just waiting to mug you or worse – when your life is consumed by worries of rising gas prices and the dwindling bank accounts – somebody comes along and with one generous act of kindness makes it all beautiful again.
That’s a rather sappy way of saying that some people really are nice.
Mother and I spent the day in Seldovia a few days ago, and on the water taxi we took from Homer we met Archer & Kate, a couple also going to spend the day in Seldovia.
The ride across was just over an hour long, and we spent the time chatting with them about this and that. Once we docked in Seldovia, they took off to do their thing and we took off to do our thing. It is a very small town, however, so we ran in to each other occasionally, each time stopping to chat a while about the things we’d seen and done. And of course, since there’s only one taxi that goes back and forth between the two towns, we sat with them again on the way back.
Just as we docked in Homer, and were gathering up our stuff to head back to our hotel room, Archer handed me his business card and said, “Give me a call when you hit Soldotna on your way home. I’ve got some fish I can give you.”
Mother and I were imagining a fillet or two of the halibut they’d caught a few days ago – they’d shown us pictures, and it was a doozey!
What they ended up giving us, however, was much more than just a fillet or two: the box held two halibut fillets, two king salmon fillets, two red salmon fillets, two silver salmon fillets, two ling cod fillets, and two packages of smoked salmon!
Wow!
I must point out the fact that when Mother and I divvied up the goods, she took all the ling cod and halibut! Of course, I got all the salmon, but still…
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