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sung_moon
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10110 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-27 07:53:41
January 27 2011 05:08 GMT
#1
So it's 10PM Philly PA. About a foot of snow has come down and I'm driving home back from a friends house (wtf was i thinking) until i get stuck 20 yards from my house. I'm irate and walk to my house and get the shovel and start to shovel on an empty sidewalk that's usually vacate and will be fine for me to park. This is until a guy comes out from behind me and ask me to help dig his car out.

Normally I be an asshole and make an excuse like my back hurts or i don't speak english (lol), but this guy was pleading and opened the car window for his woman. It was his wife who was going through labor. I then immediately run to my house to get my second shovel (thank goodness for buy 1 get 1 free specials from back then) and we begin digging it out. But she's REALLY screaming like that X-men girl who screams really fucking loud, so i figured what the hell and run to the next block for this chinese family that i remember were doctors.

I do not interact with this family outside of going to their house to trick-or-treat when i was younger because they had no children my age to hang out with. I knock and luckily they answer politely in which case i explain the station. He agrees to help and i quickly run back to help carry her to the home. I begin to help the guy (his name is Daryll? sorry if i spelled it wrong!)carry his wife and i gotta say, he must of been suffering cuz her grip looked like it would take an entire offensive live to break it. anyway we get in the house and and i can only help get some water and a some scissors. Daryll decides to stay so i quietly leave to shovel my car out so that it can enter the sidewalk (his car was luckily was on a sidewalk and was not obstructing traffic).

I eventually finish after a lil bit, but decide not to come inside the chinese guy's house again. I just squat outside the doorsteps but i could hear the screaming which is followed by consoling from the doctor, his wife, and Daryll, which is then followed up by even more shouting. While waiting outside, my cellphone is ringing and ringing from my mom (yea 20 years old and still a momma's boy :/ ) asking where i am.

Eventually i hear the sound of life. That lil "WAH WAH WAH". I pretty much just smile and enter the door and congratulate the couple. After a pat of the back from the doctor, and a huge lifting bear hug (literally, this guy is 6'1-6'3 190+ pounds, so lifting a 5'7 140 pound azn kid ain't hard). I decided its really late out and wish Daryll good luck and a safe trip back. But, before i go, i wish to see the kid who popped. I just took a glimpse of the kid and waved to the baby (his name is Jamal!!!!). At this point i just want to go home, take a shower, maybe watch some netflix or play some mvc2 training mode, but i never felt such a good feeling of helping some one out more than this moment.

I'm not exactly sure where the couple would be spending the night, nor did i remember to ask, but the chinese doctor assured me it'll be fine. So its about 12 inches now and counting of snow, my back hurts, my nose is running, i think i have a fever, and my car is in a tight sleeper hold made of snow that'll be a bitch to shovel out. But i feel like i was a part of something great just now.

edit: should get some pics of the storm right now. wish me luck in the morning (and every other east coaster) on the fun day of snow shoveling T_T.

and man i should really profead my shit b4 posting it D:

****
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Kakera
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States419 Posts
January 27 2011 05:14 GMT
#2
I'm not going to shovel anything, tomorrow is a stay-in day. Also, really cool, good stories to tell are hard to come by.
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-27 05:15:31
January 27 2011 05:15 GMT
#3
Good luck, seems like everyone north of where I am (southern VA) is really getting pounded. My family in northern VA lost power, and people are trapped at malls and the like. I know one person took 8 hours for a 28 mile commute.

Awesome story for you to tell for years, glad it worked out for Daryll Jamal and the mother.
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YejinYejin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1053 Posts
January 27 2011 05:20 GMT
#4
Yeah, quite a few snowstorms, compounded with other stuff. My friends back in DC are complaining about snowstorms + lightning + fallen trees. I'm in NYC, and it's snowing upwards, the sky is orange (wtf?) and I'm in college, so classes probably won't be cancelled tomorrow, so I have to go outside.

Anyways, good read, a nice pick-me-up story for this current situation.
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WarChimp
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia943 Posts
January 27 2011 05:36 GMT
#5
Thats quite a wall of text there. Hard to read without paragraphs o.O
Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
January 27 2011 05:40 GMT
#6
holy shit dude, awesome story hopefully this gets spotlighted! and add some spaces plz!!
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XXGeneration
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States625 Posts
January 27 2011 05:41 GMT
#7
Oh man, this storm might not even cancel our school

NJ </3
"I was so surprised when I first played StarCraft 2. I couldn't believe that such an easy game exists... I guess the best way to attract people these days is to make things easy and simple." -Midas
Shaka_Kon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada112 Posts
January 27 2011 05:45 GMT
#8
wow dude, ur awesome! i think this good deeds destroys the "good deed" thread in the general forum....

if u hate shoveling, come to vancouver...not a single drop of snow...except rain!
say cheese!...... NOT
Geniuszerg
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada454 Posts
January 27 2011 05:52 GMT
#9
nice! ppl like you are awesome =D
RoyaleBrainSlug
Profile Joined December 2010
United States295 Posts
January 27 2011 06:02 GMT
#10
Really one of those stories that stick with you for the rest of your life.
Zileas is my Homeboy
myrmidon2537
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Philippines2188 Posts
January 27 2011 06:04 GMT
#11
Feel like? I'm pretty sure you were part of something great.

Kid would probably be named after you =P
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XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
January 27 2011 06:06 GMT
#12
Wow! Lovely story.
I just woke up and was all tired and grumpy... Great start to the day to read something positive like this!
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Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
January 27 2011 06:17 GMT
#13
haha this was great

good job helping out you'll have that story forever =]
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
January 27 2011 06:18 GMT
#14
Should've taken a cellphone pic of the baby.
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RushBoxer!
Profile Joined September 2010
United States173 Posts
January 27 2011 06:25 GMT
#15
Good story!! that would definitely put a smile on my face
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Trozz
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3456 Posts
January 27 2011 06:28 GMT
#16
Wow, what an evening.
I haven't heard a birth yet.
It's nice that you helped.
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LandenC
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada55 Posts
January 27 2011 06:37 GMT
#17
Thats a great story, quite an experience out of the blue.
looknohands119
Profile Joined March 2010
United States815 Posts
January 27 2011 06:58 GMT
#18
Wow, quite the evening :D
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ELA
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark4608 Posts
January 27 2011 07:02 GMT
#19
Really nice story - Like an above poster, I just got up, it's 8 AM and im friggin hatin' on everything in my life right now, especially going to work. Then i see this in the spotlight, read it and now i have a big fat smile on my face.

Kudos to you man, thank you for sharing
The first link of chain forged, the first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-27 07:08:15
January 27 2011 07:04 GMT
#20
Awesome story man! Although, I was secretly hoping the baby would turn out to be Asian, at which point you'd take of your sunglasses and comment on how the kid was handsome, ''just like his daddy''.

Yeaaaaaaaah!
I think esports is pretty nice.
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