No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!

Dateline Thursday PM:

14 Hours before leaving home to conduct a DiSC Training and Serve as Music Professional for a conference of 330 people. This included hauling and setting up the full sound system.

What: Neighbor unknowingly comes over to ask the person with a trick back to help him move his treadmill and fails to inform him that said treadmill weighs 1000 pounds.

The Result: Being the good neighbor I am I willingly follow him next door to attempt to wiggle this bohemoth from his garage through his back door, only to immediately tweek the back injury I suffered in December. The pain was excruciating and continues to be closer to annoying then not. I immediately jumped into fear mode as I didn't know how I was going to haul speakers that weigh 100 pounds into the hotel. Fortunately a lot of ice and some appropriately timed narcotics later the swelling was limited and by the next morning I was at least mobile if not back to useful.

Of course upon my return from the conference I found six inches of snow blanketing my driveway and with company coming over to watch the "Big Game" in less then a day it was necesarry to begin the process of relocating the frozen water to a less intrusive location. At this point I do believe God sent a couple of angels as a reward for my good deed. Not five minutes into the scooping two young men in a pickup truck pull up offering to clear the driveway and in front of the mailbox and lay a little salt down all for what to me seemed a very reasonable twenty dollars. Considering the cost of loss production and Dr. bills for a continued painful back I quickly jumped on the offer. This could be the best investment of this young year.

Thank you Lord for teaching humility and willingness to accept help. Now should I bill the neighbor the twenty bucks? (Plus tip of course!)