Faith in humanity and a duck

Ducklings by a lake
Photo credit: Petr Kratochvil via freestockphotos.biz

Sometimes it’s easy to lose your faith in humanity. People shoot each other, call each other names, mistreat animals, and ignore each other. For a social animal, we’re not always very sociable. (Not that I want to spend more time with people. I’m content being sociable on my own.)

Other times, a person will do something unexpectedly nice.

A while back, I was driving in the South Island (of New Zealand, not that there are any other South Islands). I passed through a township, following the main road, and drove out into the hundred zone.

I was getting up to speed when the car ahead braked suddenly and stopped dead in the middle of the road.

Unsure why it had stopped, I braked too. I pulled up behind it and waited. And waited.

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