Thired a guy to fix my roof.
Cheapest quote I got. He showed up in a beat-up truck. He worked for three days straight, 12 hours a day, in the blistering sun.
On the last day, I went up to give him a Gatorade. I saw him carefully pulling a nest of baby birds out of the gutter. Most guys would have just shoveled it into the trash.
He had built a little shelter out of scrap shingles and was gently moving the nest into a nearby tree, making sure it was secure.
“Sorry to slow down the job,” he said, wiping sweat. “Couldn’t bring myself to evict ’em.”
I looked at this man-rough hands, sunburned neck, working for minimum wage.
“Charge me an extra hour,” I said.
“What for?”
” Environmental protection fee.”
He laughed. I wrote his check. I added $20 O. He tried to return it.
“Keep it,” I said. “It’s hard to find good craftsmanship. It’ s even harder to find a good heart.”
Character is what you do when you think nobody is watching.
