It's A Wonderful Life

A Random Act of Kindness: Phantom Gardener

My husband is one of the busiest people I know. He owns and runs several businesses, and not just runs them, but is actually out in the field doing the work himself. We are probably the only resident in our semi-up scale neighborhood of a small community within the greater Los Angeles area that doesn't hire someone else to manicure our lawns. The neighbors are always laughing at him for not getting a gardener to mow his lawns, because they all see how much he works, but he says he finds it relaxing to do. Well, within the last few years it has really bothered my husband to see the that the two post offices in our community have let their landscaping go uncared for as they cancelled their gardening contracts due to the financial stress the postal service has been in. So finally, my husband took it upon himself to load up his own lawnmower, edger, weed wacker and trash bags into his rustic old 1931 Model A pick-up truck and head over to both of our post offices every Sunday and mows their lawns and repair their broken sprinkler heads. At first he was nervous about getting arrested fir trespassing or something, but like I told him, how can you get in trouble for doing a nice thing for the US Postal Service and for our community? Everybody in the community see's him doing this, but nobody knows who it is. He has been called the "phantom gardener" One of the neighbors that lives near one of the post offices wrote an article in our community paper about him and titled the article "Random Acts of Kindness". He has continued to do this "Random Act of Kindness" for three years now.