Someone I work with was telling me about something that happened a few weeks ago.

This persons husband was at a neighbor's place feeding their horses while they were away. A guy came up horseback, riding one and leading another. It was a hot day and he asked if he could water his horses. Jim is my coworkers husbands name and he told the guy that it would be fine with him except the owner of the place was really persnickity about his troughs. (The reason for this is that public watering troughs pass diseases between animals.)

The guy was very good about it and said that he understood. Jim told him that he lived down the road a couple of miles and he had a trough he would gladly fill for the mans horses. The guy came down there and by the time he could get there Jim told his wife and his wife started fixing a plate of food for the man. The man watered the horses and Jim threw down some hay for them. The man scarfed up the food and was obviously hungry.

In visiting with the man, Jim learned that he was out of work and was trying to get to a place in Oklahoma where he knew some people and thought he could get work. Jim let him stay the night and was worried about him getting across the Red River bridge on Monday morning with the horses because of the morning traffic. He hitched up his trailer and took the man and his horses over the bridge the next morning and made sure he had food and water. Jim was late to work because of it.

Now here's a man seriously down on his luck, but he was asking for no handouts. He was taking matters in his own hands asking no one for anything besides water for his horses. Because he was trying to help himself he got voluntary help from someone else.

The lazy kids on Wall Street could learn something from this guy.

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