Shoutout to the delivery driver who saved my Valentine's Day after my van died in the middle of a huge order route.

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Valentine's Day is just one day, and it's mostly a made up holiday for selling cards and chocolate. Getting a van fixed seems like a regular part of running deliveries, not some huge emergency rescue. People deal with car trouble all the time without calling it a Valentine's Day save. Was the driver even doing anything special, or just doing their normal job? Why do we need to turn every small act of help into a big story?

barnes.jamie20d ago

Wait, hold up. The driver got paid for fixing the van? I thought that was just a coworker helping out, not someone actually getting a paycheck for it. So a guy got paid his regular wage to do a repair that's part of the job description, and we're calling that a Valentine's Day miracle? That's like me getting paid to answer phones on Presidents Day and somebody saying I saved the office. I mean, if the guy did it for free after his shift ended, that's different. But getting paid normal time to fix a work vehicle? That's just called doing your job.

blake_martinez1mo ago

Look at it this way. Most people just want to get home on a day like that, not stop to help a stranger. Yeah, fixing a van is part of the job, but choosing to do it on a cold night when you could be done? That's the point. We hear about bad stuff all the time, so why not make a big deal out of someone doing a decent thing? It costs nothing to call that good.