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Old 07-13-2024, 06:17 AM
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I bought my home in TV about 14 years ago before we all had GPS. I can remember driving my golf cart with a map all the time and usually got lost. Every time people would see me on the side of the path or road looking at a map they would stop and ask where I was trying to go and help me out. That happened every time I got lost. One guy saw me down by the Havana Country club one night trying to figure on a map how to get to the Village of Buttonwood. He tried to explain how to get there and then said forget all those directions and just follow me. He took me almost to my house. I thanked him and asked him where he lived in Buttonwood area and he said I don”t live around here I live down by the Havana Country Club. I said you drove all that way just to help me, someone you don’t even know and he said yes because that’s what we do in the Villages. He said your day will come when it will be your turn to help someone. He was right! I have never forgotten that night and the kindness that guy showed me so I am not at all surprised the kindness the OP received mentioned in this post.