431. The Kind Morticians

December 20, 2024•Ep. 430•3 min 57 sec

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Years ago, Jessica was on a train and met a couple who owned a funeral parlor. Today she tells us about the kindness they extended her.

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This is Jessica and I have a story for the It’s Going To Be OK podcast. It is about the kindness of strangers. When I was in my early to mid 20s, I was living in Iowa and wanted to go to Chicago to meet up with some friends.

And it was in January and I was too scared to drive on the winter road. So I decided to drive 45 minutes to Mount Pleasant, Iowa and take the train from Mount Pleasant into Chicago.

So I did that and then I’m a little chatty-cappy and so I’m talking to other people waiting for the train and making friends and that whole thing. And I was talking to an older couple and she was a school teacher and he ran a funeral parlor.

And when I was in Chicago, a big ice storm hit in Iowa. And so this couple remembered that I was traveling by myself and they lived in Mount Pleasant.

And so they drove to the train station, tried to clear ice off of my car and waited for me to make sure that I would be able to get home safely. And it was so sweet of them. And we just could not get the ice off of my car.

And so they said, oh, we have a heated garage. Well, their heated garage was in the funeral parlor that they owned. And so I’m driving and I park my car right next to the hearth.

And I was like, this is either going to be a horror movie or they’re going to take care of me. And they took care of me. We got the car all cleaned up.

I was not invited in because they had a client. And I was thankful for that because I didn’t want to hang out with one of their clients, who was someone that had passed.

But it was just so kind of them to go out of their way to make sure that I could get home safely. And I still think of that 20 years later about the kindness that they showed me.

And even though it was a little bit scary, the unknowns overall, it was just really nice. So that’s my story. My name is Jessica and I am from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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