Today I’m pleased to bring you one more blog about the truck parade held a week ago in honor of 88-year old Ruth Childs.
The parade was inspired by a single Facebook post, in which Ruth’s daughter Bonnie asked if anyone knew who drives the “long white truck with a lot of lights” that goes past Ruth’s apartment window every evening. She was hoping the driver could flash their lights and beep their horn on Friday night, Ruth’s birthday.
You can read the whole story here about how the resulting truck parade turned out, but simply said, it was an incredible outpouring of Webster community love that brought Ruth to tears. It came to her as a complete surprise, and she wanted to make sure to express her thanks.
“I did not know what my daughter had done,” Ruth said. “She just told me there was going to be a surprise. I had no idea until we had to get outside and start waving.”
I just wanted to thank all of the people that were involved, who came to wish somebody happy birthday that they didn’t even know. I thank them for giving up their evening, because once you work all day, especially on Friday, you just want to go home and do your own thing. I thought it was just wonderful and I was overwhelmed.
It was the best birthday ever.
Her daughter Bonnie was also extremely grateful for the outpouring of support, writing,
The effort put forth to make a complete stranger so happy was beyond heartwarming. When they sang Happy Birthday I don’t think there was a dry eye. I think it was a morale booster for the entire community!
Just reading the Facebook comments is evidence that we are all looking for the good that exists in the world and Webster has proven to be a shining star. I challenge you to find any post with more than 200 comments and ZERO negative remarks. That’s when you know something special is happening!
We live in an amazing community.
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(posted 2/3/2024)
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Just an amazing story! Thanks for sharing this bit of happiness when there is so much negative around us.