Never judge a book by its cover.

[Maywalk]

A little story of something that happened in the week.

I had two requests from the USA for the book I wrote and my granddaughter
took me to the post office on Thursday to post them off.
While in there a woman was being served in front of me who had a tattoo in the middle of her back
of a man and some sort of badge done as well. It was quite a large picture of the man and
was very noticeable because being a warm day she had a sleeveless top on
that was low cut at the back.
Anyway she was still being sorted out when the other counter became empty.
I had to put the books on the scales to be weighed. I was asked whether the packages were
worth more than £40 and I said
'No they are only books that I wrote for the proceeds to go to charity.'
With this the lady with the tattoos heard what I said and she said that she too had just
had her back tattooed to make some money for her sons regiment because he was in Afghanistan.
She had raised a £1000 for them. I said that I thought that was brilliant and sporting of her
and I bet her son was proud of her.

She then asked me what the book was about that I had written and my granddaughter piped up and
said 'Its about Grandma when she was an evacuee and bombed out during the war right, up until
she got married. All the proceeds have gone to the children's Hospice.'

I was pleasantly surprised when the lady threw her arms round me and gave me a lovely hug
and kissed me on the cheek and asked me if she too could have a book because she loved reading
anything to do with the war years and she felt honoured to have met me.
I agreed and said I would order it for her.
She even paid me for a book and gave me her address and phone number straight away.

It was delivered this afternoon and I have left a message on her phone asking her if she can pop
round to get it because she lives in the same village-cum-town as me.
I have not had any reply yet but being a Saturday she may be out collecting more for her
son's regiment and I can only admire her and wish her luck.

All that and I only went to post something.

[ciderman_nz]

The world is full of interesting people Frolique. All you have to do to make contact with them is smile, which I bet you do a lot.

[Maywalk]

I can have a giggle with anyone Michael.

Life is too short to be miserable.

[mo]

That was lovely Maisie.
Two lovely caring people.

[Anya]

What a wonderful encounter and very true that getting beyond first impressions can sometime bring unexpected and rewarding results.

I was in a post-office queue, the young woman in front of me was heavily tattooed, with acres of flesh exposed and bits of metal sticking out of her face. An elderly man suddenly collapsed and the woman went into action, getting someone to phone for an ambulance, organising CPR, strong, quiet, efficient. Turned out she was a doctor. You could have blown me down with a toy stethoscope.

[Maywalk]

Thanks Mo and Anya.

WOW Anya.
That must have been quite impressive to see that doctor looking like that and suddenly swinging into action.
We so very often take things and folks at face value but its proved with our tales that its not always as it looks.
Thankyou for telling me that lovely tale.
Did the chappie recover by the way??????????

[rocky]

[font=Tahoma]Maywalk and Anya ... thank you for reminding me to be much more careful in any rush-to-judgment I might make. I'm pretty good about not giving in to it, but like most, I suppose ... not always.[/font]

[Anya]

Maisie, I think she saved his life. I asked later in the post office and they said he had recovered and was out and about again.

[Maywalk]

That was brilliant of her Anya.

I think we are all guilty of judging too quickly at times.