Sometimes it takes a kid to make matters clear!
Clear, as in windshields. It was 10-year-old Christian Stone's brainstorm that brought him and Abbey Meeker, a grown-up family friend, to Westerly Hospital during Monday's snowstorm, right around the time that the hospital workers were changing shifts, so Stone and Meeker could clean the snow off the staffers' cars and make it easier for them to get home.
"I was thinking they've been helping us a lot through this whole pandemic, and I figured why don't we help them, you know?" Christian explained to a CNN reporter. "All day, every day the nurses here, they deal with the pandemic like Covid and they want to get home from work, so we thought we would make it a tiny bit easier for them by cleaning off their cars for them."
Of course, the little dude couldn't do it alone. Meeker, 29, says Christian came up with the idea during the last big snowstorm, and she agreed to help him. They made it a game. When drivers used their remotes to unlock their cars, they'd rush over and clean the car in a hurry. Meeker said they ended up cleaning off about 80 cars.
Christian wouldn't take money when people offered it -- except for two nurses who said they'd be mad at him unless he accepted a portrait of Andrew Jackson.
"It's been cold but extremely fun seeing how happy they get," said Stone, who lives in Rhode Island. "Some of them say, 'Thank you so much' and I'm just really happy to see them happy."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/us/snow-hospital-good-deed-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0qo6H3KgJrIQFXwdMqZEYmpEDqfH1Mmvoteej2n03PctG1IHIlk-zPZ7w
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