Explore

Category

Holidays

Free media tool

Our pages

Download on the App Store Download on the App Store Make4Fun Apps Make4fun for iPhone/iPad! More fun ...everywhere.

Attitude Adjustment

In 1969 I was a young girl working in the big city. I was from a small town in Ontario and had just moved to Toronto about five weeks earlier. It was one week before Christmas and I was going home on the streetcar, the last one of the evening.

I remember looking at my paycheque and asking myself how it was going to endure. At that time in my life I barely had enough money to exist on. Kraft dinner was a mainstay supper for me and oatmeal for breakfast was the only way I kept hunger at bay.

I hopped off the streetcar and started walking up the street when I noticed a man was running after me. I stopped, turned around, and seeing that he was black I snapped, "What do you want?" The man replied in a soft voice, "I am returning your wallet that you left on the streetcar seat."

Because of that man's thoughtfulness, I was allowed the luxury of going home by bus for the holidays. Otherwise I would have stayed in my 8' x 10' room with a hot plate.

I have never been so ashamed of myself, and that poor, kind man now had to walk, who knows how far, home.

I recognized immediately that this was wrong of me and changed my ways forever.

Story of Inspirational short story

story Information

Upload Date: 31/12/1969

Downloads: 3394

Other Stories

Other Stories
Inspirational short story - An Angel

An Angel

1425 downloads

Inspirational short story - The light of hope

The light of hope

1421 downloads

Inspirational short story - A Good Tree

A Good Tree

2840 downloads

Inspirational short story - ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER

1832 downloads

Inspirational short story - New Kid On the Ward

New Kid On the Ward

1260 downloads

Inspirational short story - Choosing to Forgive

Choosing to Forgive

1909 downloads