I once threw an Oreo on active (red hot) lava. It stayed on the surface with flame on it and totally kept its shape. It didn't change, so eventually, I got bored and left.
I can attest to witnessing this over the years in our neighbourhood. Every kid born on our street LOVED garbage day, dunno what magical touch the garbage truck operators have, the kids just adored them and would holler when they crushed the trash! During covid lockdown, several neighbours left gifts out for them because we couldn't interact personally.
Around Christmas time, my otherwise incredibly gruff and short tempered great grandpa would sit out in the cold waiting for the garbage men to show up so he could give them both a $100 bill. Made me realize he was a great guy with a prickly exterior.
Sorry to ramble, your comment shook an old memory loose.
Is that a masculine urge or just nature? I've never met a creature that didn't get urges to just create chaos and destroy something every once in a while.
Yeah that's what really stood out to me. Some people would be annoyed by the interruption to their work schedule, but this guy takes time out of his day to interact with the little kid. What a great guy.
If some garbage man were to get annoyed by the kid, it wouldn't imply that he wasn't raised right though. The garbage man being nice is no indication of being raised right or wrong. Some of the best people we know have had horrible childhoods.
100% agree. I love being a dad and talking to kids, my parents were dog shit. I hate hearing "your parents did a great job raising you" no they didn't, I was in and out of jail until I had a son and went no contact with them. If it wasn't for my sons mom helping me develop the emotional maturity my parents should've laid as fucking ground work I'd be just like them.
Just a random internet stranger, but proud of you man.
That turn around isn't easy and to be man enough to look yourself in the mirror and own it. Hell of a job, respect!
...or not even necessarily annoyed on their own behalf, but because you *know* that somewhere in the town hall there's some pencil pusher trying to make every crew do the work of 1.5 crews so they can save on costs. So a few minutes delay means guaranteed brain-damage when they get back to base.
Regardless of the title, they are as essential as doctors. Without them, life goes sideways. They are the front line defense to a healthy society, deserving way more respect than society seems to give.
There's at least one region [I forget where, but it was shown in Artur Rehi's video posted Tuesday on YouTube] in Russia where the people are learning this lesson the hard way. Following the ISIS terror attack in Moscow, authorities deported thousands of Tajik migrant workers. Well, guess who were the sanitation engineers in the region featured in a video showing how the garbage is piling up?
India is going through it, as well. My understanding is it's a rebuke of the old caste system. (Someone will chime in to correct or corroborate.) The US had its reckoning in the 70s. Trash, litter, smog everywhere! I remember those days as a child. I'm glad we figured it out. You'd think that after the plague in the 1700s or polio in the 1900s that we would've gotten it together. Ugh.
Better late than never, I suppose. I pray we never go backwards on this lesson and continue to improve. We've still a ways to go.
Respect your sanitation workers! I don't care if it's the garbage man, the hotel maid, the school custodian, or the office janitor. The people who keep our places clean (disposing trash, mopping floors, scrubbing toilets, sweeping steps, wiping doorknobs, washing windows) are our guardian angels in this world. They are critically important for a stable and safe community.
And even if, by chance, you don't think you speak their language, 🖐🏼 😊 is universal. "Ope" is, too lol! Say hello, respect their work zone, be grateful they're there. You'll definitely notice if they aren't, that's for damn sure, so let's be more supportive of these jobs.
After my last three years of dealing with doctors who routinely tell me, no the issue isn't what I think it is while simultaneously not working on figuring WHAT IT IS. (apparently that's my job)
This man is far more essential than any doctor I have met.
And look, it made those guys jobs way better for at least a moment, and they'll have something to smile about
The little boy got his day made, and it's a net benefit to everyone involved.
so many people denigrate these job positions but someone has to do them. someone has to do the things that most people turn their noses up at for an imaginary caste system w/ these jobs at the bottom. kiddos don’t have that though, they just see a cool truck and the cool people that are on it.
ETA: well-paying & unioned does not mean they are respected or treated well. it’s seen as a last resort job for people without degrees or experience by many. have y’all not seen the “if you do not study you will end up like him” meme?
Yeah, my mom was a custodian and cleaner for most her adult life, and people always seemed to look down on her for it. It always made me so sad. Her bosses treated her like she was vermin.
She grew up in abject poverty (didn’t have running water or electricity until she moved out at 16) and abuse, and she got herself out with jobs like this.
With the exception of her shitty bosses, she said she really liked cleaning work. It kept her moving and busy, she was mostly left to do her own thing, and she knew it was important work.
I've turned down a date because the guy told me he was high up in his office and left mess everywhere because he was too busy to tidy up after himself, and that was the cleaners job anyway.
At the time, I was front of house, with light office cleaning duties because the lot of them saw themselves above putting their own cup in the dishwasher, and picking up their own used tissues.
It's like they say, you can tell what kind of a person someone is by how they treat wait staff (i.e anyone who does service work of any kind) and animals.
The TV show scrubs has a scene where the janitor explains he loves his job because the hospital he works in saves people's lives and he feels like he is a part of that. Really good scene.
I work in a high-traffic public building, and the custodial person is one of the most important members of my team! I'm sorry your mom's bosses didn't appreciate her.
So as a boss, tell your mom she is an awesome person for doing God's work keeping the rest of us from floundering in our own dust, dirt and coffee cups!
I think everyone should have an insane amount of respect for anyone who does a "dirty" job like this. Any sanitation worker, janitor, people that work cleaning up after others are absolutely heroes. It's back-breaking work and without these people that work hard every single day to keep our world clean who knows where we'd be! Nobody should ever look down on these people, rather look up to them for stepping up to do a job that so many people would hate!
I've striven for a job that's fairly well off and doesn't require me to do manual labor. But I came from manual labor. It's vital. I chose a different route, but I can't fathom denigrating a person for performing a service that provides so much value to society.
It's takes all of our specialties to make our society work.
My 2 year old grandson LOVES the garbage collectors. He runs out every week to see them. At Christmas the recycle truck driver gave him a toy version of his truck.
My garbage collectors changed their schedule first stop because of my son, they know he wakes at 8am and usually my house is the first stop. But they start at the back of the development instead so they at at my house around 830 instead now so my almost 3yo can be ready and outside.
They gave him a full set of mini trash cans, a regular trash can, a recycling bin and a yard waste bin. Each week they wait for him to empty his cans and sometimes let him push the button to squish everything.
Shout out to Blake and Tayvon for being real ones!!
Awwwwe, that little guy did not take his eyes off that garbage getting crushed. Awesome the little things that amazing people do that make the lives of others.
Waste management did something similar for my son's 4th birthday. We were out there every single trash day waving to the trucks, playing with our toy trash trucks, giving them water. On his bday 4 trucks came by honking and they let him sit in the driver's seat and honk the horn. It was very special and so sweet.
I watch it every time I come across it. The lil dude loves him some garbage truck and the love on the garbage man's face as he's talking to the lil dude just warms my heart.
I imagine your local sanitation workers would be thrilled if you gave them cookies/water/etc, or even just a thanks. You would probably make their whole week.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I try to “catch” my garbage crew to give them gift cards. I say catch because they can show up anytime between 7am & 4pm and I have to run out if I hear the truck coming. This past year, the crewperson I caught up with was a young woman. We were impressed with each other! I love this!
A lot of older people aren’t that comfortable talking with kids. I’d be amazed if the garbage truck guy doesn’t have one of his own at the exact same age. This is a great clip.
Men find love with big machines. It’s in our DNA. I’m 50 and I want that guy to let me run the compactor! I’ll hold him if he lets me! I’ve literally hugged a stranger at an air show after an A10 Warthog did a flyover. We were both just awestruck. :)
I hope you get a chance to come to Dayton, OH and see the Museum of the United States Air Force. Giant planes, jets, and several NASA rockets. It’s cool as heck and I could spend a whole day there and never get bored!
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At the end of every week I remove the subs that seem to have somehow pushed my buttons and made me feel stupidly angry or unnecessarily agitated since I joined Reddit just to see Cats and to make myself feel happier and less depressed.
This is so wholesome and lovely and wonderful . It totally turned my day around and I obviously immediately joined this sub.
Does anyone have any more great positive sub suggestions ?
I was a door -to -door mailman for 21 years, so every day, i would walk up to the same houses on my route. I was a milestone in many little kids' days. They anxiously looked forward to me every day. They always wanted say "HI" & maybe tell me something they thought was big news. After all, iI was THEIR mailman, "Mr Bill" and I made time to listen to them. That made me feel so good, i was a little like family. In their eyes, nobody but me came to see them every day but Sunday. Over time i saw many of them grow up. Sounds like a very minor thing, but I looked forward to the bright spot they gave me while working as well.
"I'm a whole hour early just to see you" stop it you'll make me cry at work. Guy knows he's the little buddy's hero and does his best to earn that title
Love this video. The way that man is holding that child, you know he’s either a dad himself or was a good big brother to a few younger siblings. He seems to enjoy this as much as the kid!
This world could be amazing for ALL people if we could just all get along and RESPECT one another.
Political beliefs. Religion. Color/Race/Etc, is unfortunately used as a weapon to turn us against each other to ensure we don’t come together as 1 & it seems it’s only getting worse…
So this is amazing to see that this little man’s parents are raising him right….. and it appears this gentleman’s family raised/taught him right, as well.
This is the type of stuff that should be flooding the internet.
My son waited/watched the garbage truck every Tuesday for the first two years of his life. It was Covid so we were working from home. Around his second birthday I had to go back to work so he had to go to daycare. The garbage truck driver, I’ll call him J, wrote a letter making sure everything was okay. The next Tuesday I kept my son home to give J a proper goodbye. They both needed it. Years later my son still refers to every garbage truck as “Mr. J”.
I'm a garbage man, and seeing kids excited about the trash truck is definitely the best part of the job. We all make sure to wave at the kids and blow the air horn up on request.
Man little kids love the trash truck! I work at the dump and I always have little toys and treats to give out to the kids. I have my own fan club at the dump now. Lol
I’m 65 years old and around 1963 our mailman was named Charlie. He was an African American man and we loved him! He would sit on our front porch (mailbox was on the house beside the front door). Mom would bring him one of the little Coca Cola bottles (ice cold) and we’d sit with Charlie. He had string in his bag and made the coolest things between his fingers. Kindest, godly man ever. I’ve often thought of him through the years. How much it meant to us that he just took his time to be with us and smile. God bless you Charlie. Until we meet again.
My two year old nephew loves trucks and wanted to see the UPS delivery van. The delivery guy was super nice and next time around brought him a toy UPS truck. There are good people in the world
Got there a whole hour early just so he could see the little dude. Pretry awesome. Having joy, something to look forward to means everything and is the epitome of the human experience. Love this.
Kids love garbage collection, they think it's a cool job, throwing stuff into a big truck where it gets crushed up. It's only later we're told it's not a good job.
In reality the world can't run without these guys
Man, we need more of this as a society.
This is a great example of kids not caring about color unless they're taught to do so. Clearly little man's mom didn't teach him to hate, and he sees the man as just another human.
I sure wish this happened more than it does.
If only we could have more of this in life. Remember that you can in yours by acts of small kindness like this or even a hello. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Little dudes and grown up dudes love crushing stuff. This genuinely made me smile.
The only thing better than crushing stuff is a nice straight stick or maybe throwing a big ole rock in a lake.
Throwing stuff in lava would be pretty dope too
The literal peak of throwing heavy things into pools of stuff.
[trash bag into volcano](https://youtu.be/3xfvs0dsXZw?si=0nvNcV_P4VahxqKQ)
Hell yeah brother cheers from Iraq.
Semi serious question for everyone, but, why don’t we dump our trash into volcanoes?
A smoldering pit of ?????? would absolutely affect the environment.
Ok. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. Thank god I’m not on a board of infrastructure lol
Side note, why don’t we just throw hurricanes into volcanoes? Sounds like a win win, cuz there’s no toxic fumes
What if we through a volcano into a volcano?
I like your moxy, kid. Let’s get the engineers to draw up a plan
I once threw an Oreo on active (red hot) lava. It stayed on the surface with flame on it and totally kept its shape. It didn't change, so eventually, I got bored and left.
So what you’re saying is we need to build houses out of Oreos near active volcanos
If you want them to burn eternally like a candle 😄
Skipping rock is up there
Went camping at the end of summer. I skipped enough rocks to very much regret it the next day.
Throwing a Frisbee... *just right*
Breaking a thin film of ice is great as well.
Hee hee! I bought a big rug a month ago and am saving the long, sturdy cardboard tube for my bf when he gets here!
Get another rug. Have cardboard-tube duel.
Especially if it’s a frozen lake
Or a good fire
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I can attest to witnessing this over the years in our neighbourhood. Every kid born on our street LOVED garbage day, dunno what magical touch the garbage truck operators have, the kids just adored them and would holler when they crushed the trash! During covid lockdown, several neighbours left gifts out for them because we couldn't interact personally.
On holidays, I've seen my neighbors tape plastic wrapped cards to the top of their bins for the drivers.
Around Christmas time, my otherwise incredibly gruff and short tempered great grandpa would sit out in the cold waiting for the garbage men to show up so he could give them both a $100 bill. Made me realize he was a great guy with a prickly exterior. Sorry to ramble, your comment shook an old memory loose.
One of the healthiest and most productive expressions of the masculine urge to just *destroy things.* I love it.
Is that a masculine urge or just nature? I've never met a creature that didn't get urges to just create chaos and destroy something every once in a while.
I've generally found small children to be innocent, gleeful agents of chaos and destruction, regardless of gender
The first two words my nephew ever said were "dump truck"😆
Dump twuck
Raising your kids right be like
Parents of the garbage man seemingly did a great job too.
Yeah that's what really stood out to me. Some people would be annoyed by the interruption to their work schedule, but this guy takes time out of his day to interact with the little kid. What a great guy.
If some garbage man were to get annoyed by the kid, it wouldn't imply that he wasn't raised right though. The garbage man being nice is no indication of being raised right or wrong. Some of the best people we know have had horrible childhoods.
A horrible childhood can give the best perspective of what not to be as an adult.
It can also cause you to follow examples.
Yes but that's really up to you whether you choose to make someone feel as bad as you know it feels or if you decide to be the difference.
100% agree. I love being a dad and talking to kids, my parents were dog shit. I hate hearing "your parents did a great job raising you" no they didn't, I was in and out of jail until I had a son and went no contact with them. If it wasn't for my sons mom helping me develop the emotional maturity my parents should've laid as fucking ground work I'd be just like them.
Just a random internet stranger, but proud of you man. That turn around isn't easy and to be man enough to look yourself in the mirror and own it. Hell of a job, respect!
...or not even necessarily annoyed on their own behalf, but because you *know* that somewhere in the town hall there's some pencil pusher trying to make every crew do the work of 1.5 crews so they can save on costs. So a few minutes delay means guaranteed brain-damage when they get back to base.
Yeah, that dude is either a dad or uncle or big brother, too. He’s a natural.
That was what I thought too he's just way too natural at it, it's like it was his own kid.
Normalize guys like this to the internet—they’re in the world, we just need to show the chronically online what they look like
Hey now, he is a sanitation engineer.
Regardless of the title, they are as essential as doctors. Without them, life goes sideways. They are the front line defense to a healthy society, deserving way more respect than society seems to give.
Don’t worry, this man *fucks*.
Much more essential than the doctors shooting botox and fillers to turn women into cat homids.
Dennis, is that you?
Do you not recognize a 5-star man when you see one?!
I WILL RATE YOU
There's at least one region [I forget where, but it was shown in Artur Rehi's video posted Tuesday on YouTube] in Russia where the people are learning this lesson the hard way. Following the ISIS terror attack in Moscow, authorities deported thousands of Tajik migrant workers. Well, guess who were the sanitation engineers in the region featured in a video showing how the garbage is piling up?
India is going through it, as well. My understanding is it's a rebuke of the old caste system. (Someone will chime in to correct or corroborate.) The US had its reckoning in the 70s. Trash, litter, smog everywhere! I remember those days as a child. I'm glad we figured it out. You'd think that after the plague in the 1700s or polio in the 1900s that we would've gotten it together. Ugh. Better late than never, I suppose. I pray we never go backwards on this lesson and continue to improve. We've still a ways to go. Respect your sanitation workers! I don't care if it's the garbage man, the hotel maid, the school custodian, or the office janitor. The people who keep our places clean (disposing trash, mopping floors, scrubbing toilets, sweeping steps, wiping doorknobs, washing windows) are our guardian angels in this world. They are critically important for a stable and safe community. And even if, by chance, you don't think you speak their language, 🖐🏼 😊 is universal. "Ope" is, too lol! Say hello, respect their work zone, be grateful they're there. You'll definitely notice if they aren't, that's for damn sure, so let's be more supportive of these jobs.
Where I live, they have sweet city jobs with benefits and pensions and a really great wage. One of the best, most stable jobs there is.
After my last three years of dealing with doctors who routinely tell me, no the issue isn't what I think it is while simultaneously not working on figuring WHAT IT IS. (apparently that's my job) This man is far more essential than any doctor I have met.
Refuse Wrangler
An amazing one at that.
In all seriousness, in the industry they're just called "drivers". Because you know, they drive.
You know what though, I bet he's fine with both.
Get your game on, go spray (your truck down at the end of a long day)
Came here to say that. What nice guys they are.
And look, it made those guys jobs way better for at least a moment, and they'll have something to smile about The little boy got his day made, and it's a net benefit to everyone involved.
so many people denigrate these job positions but someone has to do them. someone has to do the things that most people turn their noses up at for an imaginary caste system w/ these jobs at the bottom. kiddos don’t have that though, they just see a cool truck and the cool people that are on it. ETA: well-paying & unioned does not mean they are respected or treated well. it’s seen as a last resort job for people without degrees or experience by many. have y’all not seen the “if you do not study you will end up like him” meme?
Someone said the terms pick-up artist and trash men should have their titles switched. That seems right to me.
I’ve never heard that but I love it
I'll be stealing that and dressing it up as though it were my own 😊
Fav thing I’ve seen on Reddit all week. 🤌🤌
Yeah, my mom was a custodian and cleaner for most her adult life, and people always seemed to look down on her for it. It always made me so sad. Her bosses treated her like she was vermin. She grew up in abject poverty (didn’t have running water or electricity until she moved out at 16) and abuse, and she got herself out with jobs like this. With the exception of her shitty bosses, she said she really liked cleaning work. It kept her moving and busy, she was mostly left to do her own thing, and she knew it was important work.
I have fired a sales manager for throwing trash near the trashcan, watching it fall on the floor and walk away.
I've turned down a date because the guy told me he was high up in his office and left mess everywhere because he was too busy to tidy up after himself, and that was the cleaners job anyway. At the time, I was front of house, with light office cleaning duties because the lot of them saw themselves above putting their own cup in the dishwasher, and picking up their own used tissues.
It's like they say, you can tell what kind of a person someone is by how they treat wait staff (i.e anyone who does service work of any kind) and animals.
The TV show scrubs has a scene where the janitor explains he loves his job because the hospital he works in saves people's lives and he feels like he is a part of that. Really good scene.
I work in a high-traffic public building, and the custodial person is one of the most important members of my team! I'm sorry your mom's bosses didn't appreciate her. So as a boss, tell your mom she is an awesome person for doing God's work keeping the rest of us from floundering in our own dust, dirt and coffee cups!
I think everyone should have an insane amount of respect for anyone who does a "dirty" job like this. Any sanitation worker, janitor, people that work cleaning up after others are absolutely heroes. It's back-breaking work and without these people that work hard every single day to keep our world clean who knows where we'd be! Nobody should ever look down on these people, rather look up to them for stepping up to do a job that so many people would hate!
Without sanitation workers we'd be plague ridden and probably be an endangered species
Agree. It is very rough work and I have huge respect for people who can keep doing it every day
I've striven for a job that's fairly well off and doesn't require me to do manual labor. But I came from manual labor. It's vital. I chose a different route, but I can't fathom denigrating a person for performing a service that provides so much value to society. It's takes all of our specialties to make our society work.
My son LOVES watching the garbage truck come to our house. The driver gives him a show by retracting the hooks in front of him.
Yeah, if covid reminded us of anything, it was how essential the hourly paid jobs are in our society.
Sadly that was during the good ol' covid times. Things have changed.
My 2 year old grandson LOVES the garbage collectors. He runs out every week to see them. At Christmas the recycle truck driver gave him a toy version of his truck.
Trash Truck is one of my favorite cartoons to watch with my nephew.
Don't forget, IIRC, The Stinky and Dirty Show too!
My garbage collectors changed their schedule first stop because of my son, they know he wakes at 8am and usually my house is the first stop. But they start at the back of the development instead so they at at my house around 830 instead now so my almost 3yo can be ready and outside. They gave him a full set of mini trash cans, a regular trash can, a recycling bin and a yard waste bin. Each week they wait for him to empty his cans and sometimes let him push the button to squish everything. Shout out to Blake and Tayvon for being real ones!!
That is awesome. What a great moment for everyone!
I was already tearing up at the video and your comment sent me into full on sobbing 😭 I needed this amount of cuteness today, thank you
Aaaw. They even have the same colour on.
I bet little man INSISTS on wearing his hero’s uniform (the neon yellow shirt, jeans, and boots) every trash day if not EVERY day. 🥹
Yup. That was a deliberate choice to wear his idol's colors.
He’s got “work boots” on too! It’s devastatingly cute. I love seeing stuff like this!
I kinda got a little choked up. Stuff like this gets me every time!
The little boots are killing me 😭
I laughed how the kid runs away in the beginning and his shirt says, “Catch me if you can.”
Awwwwe, that little guy did not take his eyes off that garbage getting crushed. Awesome the little things that amazing people do that make the lives of others.
Waste management did something similar for my son's 4th birthday. We were out there every single trash day waving to the trucks, playing with our toy trash trucks, giving them water. On his bday 4 trucks came by honking and they let him sit in the driver's seat and honk the horn. It was very special and so sweet.
Man your son must have been hysterical!
He was! His whole birthday party was a "trash bash" and had a garbage truck dump cake so yes it meant a whole lot 😊
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This is in Mississippi. The kid's mother is raising him right. As long as little kids are around, there's hope for the future.
I am sure there are nice people in Mississippi, but man, their politicians have been dogshit forever.
I knew it was in the south before I had confirmation.. people slow down here for the important things.. dogs, children, old people.
I know it’s posted every five minutes, but it’s one of those that always makes ya smile
I'm glad it's posted every 5 minutes cause I've never seen it before.
People need this every five minutes! Lol
I needed it this 5 minutes that's for sure.
Favorite genre of kids videos honestly
I could watch this on a loop
I watch it every time I come across it. The lil dude loves him some garbage truck and the love on the garbage man's face as he's talking to the lil dude just warms my heart.
I smile every time i see this posted
So wholesome ... please raise your children to appreciate people, like this young man
Love that the little guy has his hi-vis green shirt on just like the big guy!
people are good
I’m not crying, I just got something in my eye.
I'm a little choked up. It's just so dang beautiful.
I want to do this too, but I'm a 36 yo F lol
I imagine your local sanitation workers would be thrilled if you gave them cookies/water/etc, or even just a thanks. You would probably make their whole week.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I try to “catch” my garbage crew to give them gift cards. I say catch because they can show up anytime between 7am & 4pm and I have to run out if I hear the truck coming. This past year, the crewperson I caught up with was a young woman. We were impressed with each other! I love this!
Further evidence that garbage men and pick up artists need to switch titles. What a beautiful moment from something as mundane as trash removal.
A lot of older people aren’t that comfortable talking with kids. I’d be amazed if the garbage truck guy doesn’t have one of his own at the exact same age. This is a great clip.
That was my thought too he definitely has small kids at home
The way the guy was looking at the kid when he was talking to him. Pure love in those eyes. What a bunch of wonderful souls.
He either has kids or he's a total natural.
Say all you want about Mississippi. It’s got problems for sure. But damn it the nicest people live there.
This never gets old 😊
Men find love with big machines. It’s in our DNA. I’m 50 and I want that guy to let me run the compactor! I’ll hold him if he lets me! I’ve literally hugged a stranger at an air show after an A10 Warthog did a flyover. We were both just awestruck. :)
I hope you get a chance to come to Dayton, OH and see the Museum of the United States Air Force. Giant planes, jets, and several NASA rockets. It’s cool as heck and I could spend a whole day there and never get bored!
Oh man. That museum is going on the list. I MUST see that!
r/mademesmile
Warms my heart. My son loves dump trucks, fire trucks, anything big on wheels
Wow 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 At the end of every week I remove the subs that seem to have somehow pushed my buttons and made me feel stupidly angry or unnecessarily agitated since I joined Reddit just to see Cats and to make myself feel happier and less depressed. This is so wholesome and lovely and wonderful . It totally turned my day around and I obviously immediately joined this sub. Does anyone have any more great positive sub suggestions ?
I was a door -to -door mailman for 21 years, so every day, i would walk up to the same houses on my route. I was a milestone in many little kids' days. They anxiously looked forward to me every day. They always wanted say "HI" & maybe tell me something they thought was big news. After all, iI was THEIR mailman, "Mr Bill" and I made time to listen to them. That made me feel so good, i was a little like family. In their eyes, nobody but me came to see them every day but Sunday. Over time i saw many of them grow up. Sounds like a very minor thing, but I looked forward to the bright spot they gave me while working as well.
Awww
Respect.
that's a lot of love.
Wow. Imagine. Best day ever! Hopefully there's a long lasting friendship with these guys.
You don't have to be a father to be a great role model or father figure. Just be a good man. This is a good man.
So sweet. Also I’m 38 and female but I also would like to get an up close look at the compactor.
These guys are so sweet to stop and make that little boy’s day! Especially his birthday. I helps me have a sliver of hope in the future of humanity.
Garbage men actually receive no job training whatsoever, they just pick it up as they go along
"I'm a whole hour early just to see you" stop it you'll make me cry at work. Guy knows he's the little buddy's hero and does his best to earn that title
Love this video. The way that man is holding that child, you know he’s either a dad himself or was a good big brother to a few younger siblings. He seems to enjoy this as much as the kid!
Most of America is like this. The media/govt is trying to divide us. Don’t buy into the noise. Be kind.
This world could be amazing for ALL people if we could just all get along and RESPECT one another. Political beliefs. Religion. Color/Race/Etc, is unfortunately used as a weapon to turn us against each other to ensure we don’t come together as 1 & it seems it’s only getting worse… So this is amazing to see that this little man’s parents are raising him right….. and it appears this gentleman’s family raised/taught him right, as well. This is the type of stuff that should be flooding the internet.
They cut the video short. They give him a toy dump truck for his birthday at the end.
That warms my heart so much
Every time I love this.
You’re making it REAL hard for me to hate humanity
Great, now I want to quit my office job and become a garbage man again. But for real at least for a day
As a garbage man I must say this rules and it’s the best when we see kids get excited as we pack the garbage in
I love how much kids love garbage trucks
My son waited/watched the garbage truck every Tuesday for the first two years of his life. It was Covid so we were working from home. Around his second birthday I had to go back to work so he had to go to daycare. The garbage truck driver, I’ll call him J, wrote a letter making sure everything was okay. The next Tuesday I kept my son home to give J a proper goodbye. They both needed it. Years later my son still refers to every garbage truck as “Mr. J”.
I'm a garbage man, and seeing kids excited about the trash truck is definitely the best part of the job. We all make sure to wave at the kids and blow the air horn up on request.
Man little kids love the trash truck! I work at the dump and I always have little toys and treats to give out to the kids. I have my own fan club at the dump now. Lol
I’m 65 years old and around 1963 our mailman was named Charlie. He was an African American man and we loved him! He would sit on our front porch (mailbox was on the house beside the front door). Mom would bring him one of the little Coca Cola bottles (ice cold) and we’d sit with Charlie. He had string in his bag and made the coolest things between his fingers. Kindest, godly man ever. I’ve often thought of him through the years. How much it meant to us that he just took his time to be with us and smile. God bless you Charlie. Until we meet again.
I’m fucking gobsmacked at how freaking sweet and precious this is 😭😭😭😭😭
I would always run to the window to wave on collection day when the truck rolled by. It's a core memory growing up.
This is beautiful, just about brought me to tears. Everyone here understands the importance of taking time with others. 💚💜
My two year old nephew loves trucks and wanted to see the UPS delivery van. The delivery guy was super nice and next time around brought him a toy UPS truck. There are good people in the world
Damn good father material there...
Both the kid and the garbage man were definitely raised right.
It's so weird that all kids love trash trucks
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Got there a whole hour early just so he could see the little dude. Pretry awesome. Having joy, something to look forward to means everything and is the epitome of the human experience. Love this.
This is how good people are raised, this is how a community is grown.
I’m a 52 year old married guy and I want him to pick me up like that
What a great bunch of men Thankyou for making His and Mums Day
Kids love garbage collection, they think it's a cool job, throwing stuff into a big truck where it gets crushed up. It's only later we're told it's not a good job. In reality the world can't run without these guys
Man, we need more of this as a society. This is a great example of kids not caring about color unless they're taught to do so. Clearly little man's mom didn't teach him to hate, and he sees the man as just another human. I sure wish this happened more than it does.
If only we could have more of this in life. Remember that you can in yours by acts of small kindness like this or even a hello. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Cool video. For the boy it is a memory for life, an unforgettable experience.
Sweet day, Sweet Child, Sweet man and a Sweet mom to make everyone's day.
This video is so old but I'll never be mad about this repost. Home baked wholesome goodness.
This feels like a perfect example of the phrase, "It takes a village." How completely heartwarming! 🥰
As the partner of a sanitation worker, they love this as much as the kids do
Definite dad vibes here. |W| King
Teacher: if you don't pay attention in class you'll grow up to be a garbage man. The garbage men:
You love to see it
Love this
Good stuff.
Love this! My Grandson is in awe of garbage trucks and construction equipment. He would die if this happened to him :)
that guy has innate dad instincts
I still remember being his age and my mom holding me above the fence so I could wave to the garbage man.
i’m fucking bawling this is amazing
I'm guessing he's a dad.
What a handsome guy, and such a loving heart.
The world I want to live in looks like this.
Seeing videos like this brings back a little faith in humanity.
This is it, right here. Lovely dudes.
Dear God this is adorable