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The Brick
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. Suddenly, a brick smashed into the Jaguar’s side door! The angry driver jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and yelled, “Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new car, and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money! Why did you throw that brick?”
The young boy was apologetic. “Please, mister, please! I’m sorry, but I didn’t know what else to do.” The boy pleaded, “I threw the brick because no one would stop.”
With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car, “It’s my brother”, he said. “He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair, and I can’t lift him. Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt, and he’s too heavy for me.”
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
“Thank you,” the grateful child told the stranger. The driver, too shook up for words, simply watched the boy push his brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
The damage to the driver’s Jaguar was quite noticeable, but he never bothered to repair the dented door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: “Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!”
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