Such A Lovely Gesture

It’s snowing, that great, crumbly ski-perfect snow, not quite as cold as yesterday. As I walk toward the bus stop two blocks away, I’m thinking ‘should have brought an umbrella’.  As I approach, to my delight, I see the bus already there and idling. When I board, the driver says, ‘Won’t be leaving for a few more minutes.’ I realize what he has done, rather than sit two blocks away while he waits for his schedule to begin, he came around the bend to the first stop, so that at least those patrons didn’t have to stand in the weather, while he sat alone in an empty idling bus nearby. That’s thinking of what your job entails.