A friend of mine I don't know well took me in his truck to get compost and sand and it took three trips and I noticed that the handle on the tailgate of his truck was broken so I offered to replace it and order the metal part which will not break unlike the cheap plastic part

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with which the truck shipped.

He said you don't have to do that, and I thought about it for half a day and then I went back to him and I said Yes I do.

If people treat us with graciousness and we do not reciprocate with graciousness, who are we? Gratitude speaks in acts.

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I also showed him how to open the tailgate without a handle by removing the bed liner panel and told him why the ill-designed cheap OEM plastic part broke, which is that the mechanism surrounding it we're not adequately lubricated, putting stress on the handle til it broke.

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So my payback was not only a handle but some information.
I told him to lubricate with WD-40 and white lithium grease to keep the thing working perfectly for years to come.

What goes around comes around ONLY IF we pay kindness forward, constantly.

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On the trip to get sand we killed two birds with one stone & stopped in at his bank, Wells Fargo. I shared the origins of that corporation in 1852, as a bank founded by the same guys who founded American Express, a mail delivery company founded (I think) in Brooklyn, NY.

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It's interesting how transportation companies and Banks were linked in those days, but it makes sense. Moving money and moving goods were hand-in-glove.

Good as we move through our days to let curiosity teach us the deeper stories surrounding everything we do

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And we can share that curiosity same as we can share knowledge about how to replace a tailgate handle, because curiosity also opens doors, and generosity with knowledge is one of the most critical kinds of generosity of all.

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