A Port Authority Driver Who Serves Customers With Care

From the Post-Gazette's Random Acts of Kindness section:

We were on the 42S light rail, No. 4229, hightailing it out of the South Hills one frosty mid-morning when we halted at a low-lying stop in Mt. Lebanon.

Next thing I knew, the driver -- a gray-haired woman close to grandma age if not already there -- was walking down the trolley steps to the platform, saying, "Here, let me take that. No, this would be better. C'mon honey ..."

And up the steps she brought a toddler, a boy far too small to easily make the climb. Behind him came a young woman carrying in one arm a baby bundled against the cold; with the other hand she had a bulky, folded stroller, with which the driver helped her as well.

"Isn't that driver a sweetheart?" someone said to the young woman after she got seated. She sure was.

Does it matter that the driver was white and the young woman she assisted was black? And that we were in Mt. Lebanon, which gets ripped fairly often for being a haven for white folks?

Maybe not. But it sure was a heartwarming moment on a cold, cold day, and I'll take that anytime.

-- MARGI SHRUM, Post-Gazette copy editor

Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/07340/839575-294.stm