Election-day note shows decency still exists

While voting last Thursday, I saw a note underneath the wiper of a car beside us in parking lot at the polling station.

In this era of cynicism and indifference to the plight of others, I had half expected some snarky order for the owner to move his car or be towed.

But that is not how the note read.

Instead someone had written, “Your front driver side tire is flat. I tried to put air in it but it will not inflate. Please be careful and get this fixed. God bless.”

When bullying, greed and corruption seem to dominate our news and characterize too many political, social and economic leaders, it is important to remember that decency and caring is still there, in people’s hearts — and on people’s windshields.

As a friend wrote me when I told him about this incident, “St. Catharines is a compassionate community, and compassion is built on kind action, not rhetoric and chest thumping.”

Amen to that.

Don Sawyer

St. Catharines