Every Easter in our town, the volunteer firefighters from one particular station hold a flower sale to raise money for their annual activities. We always try to support them and, in fact, just yesterday my wife brought home some flowers she bought there. Volunteer firefighters are certainly some of the most amazingly selfless people in this world. Think about what it must be like to stop whatever you're doing on a moment's notice to dash off and put yourself in sometimes dangerous situations - all for no compensation other than the satisfaction of knowing you're helping to protect your community. Well today I decided to do just a small gesture to say "thank you."
On Main Street in Moorestown we have a great Philly Hot Pretzel place where you can get the best soft pretzels literally right out of the oven. As if to prove my point, when I stopped by there this afternoon, I had to wait 5 minutes or so because the next batch of pretzels were still baking. When they were done, I bought 15 piping hot pretzels and drove over to the firehouse where the flower sale was being held.
Milling around were 6 or 7 firefighters, looking like they had probably been working the flower sale since first thing in the morning. I walked up to one of them and told him that I wanted to thank them for all their efforts on our behalf, and I gave him the bag of hot pretzels. As you might imagine, that immediately got the attention of the rest of the crew as it was near lunch time and they were probably all pretty hungry. Leaving them to enjoy the unexpected treat, I slipped out and headed on my way to run some other errands.
I find that these types of small gestures are really fun to do. They're so unexpected, and perhaps for this reason, so appreciated. It never hurts to say thank you -- especially with pretzels (!) -- to those who do so much for our community.
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