Forum Post: A Bit of Mercy Goes Quite a Long Way

Due to a connection established via my de facto [adopted] бабушка/Grandma, I had joined husbands' "service" corps so I prepared to put on [dick]"head masks." The "services" said, "It's hip to be masked.

My Grandma was most influential in my family's life due to her knowledge, wisdom, connections, and influence. Who would or could have thought that a seemingly helpless widow could save our shantytown neighborhood from a conflagration, stop my family from being evicted to become homeless, entice Mom into home ownership which made much money, probably save me from starvation, and connect me to my wife?!

A bit of mercy shown towards her went quite a long way and came back with much reward. Our relationship with her convinced me of the potential value of old knowledge and wisdom so I don't mind being called "a conservative" or old-fashioned if my home is "conserved" from being consumed by fire because although this old lady wasn't the first one in the shared neighborhood communal kitchen staring out of a kitchen window to spot the fire on the opposite side of the walkway burning { all that the first [mesmerized] spotter said, when asked by other why she wasn't cooking but staring outside, was, "Look--there's a fire over there," and did absolutely nothing despite her own dwelling being just one wooden wall behind the unit on fire, } she overheard the transfixed neighbor's casual remark, drafted my Mom, and bolted into action, thinking fast of how to put out the burning window curtains near the nightstand with the left-for-work smoker's ashtray and instantaneously figuring out how to put out the fire without using any water, and saved our neighborhood. Recall that her difficulty with access to water triggered our initially forming a relationship with her to help her out. Should people respect and observe the smoker's "unit sovereignty" and just watch with the first spotter?