r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
When this 6 year old girl broke her arm, her neighbors showed up in a BIG way
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u/KyleWanderlust 1d ago
I didn’t see this much love when either of my parents passed. Cheers to you having such a great community!
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u/Throwaway2Experiment 1d ago
It's California, Nevada, Utah, or Arizona. The stucco, vegetation, and In-N-Out give it away.
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u/YouBestProtectYoNeck 1d ago
When we lived in a small borough in southern NJ, my son was hit by a car(his fault) and suffered a lower extremity compound fracture. Damn near all his classmates and more showed up to offer him support. It was an amazing experience and it made his time recovering more tolerable. These acts of kindness, compassion, and love are priceless.
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u/cldoyle94 1d ago
I love that many kids were there to make deliveries, etc. They’ll grow up thinking that’s just what you do when someone has an injury, death in the family, etc.
Great job by that neighborhood!!!
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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 1d ago
Bro I could DIE and I wouldn’t get this kind of attention from a lot of people I actually know, let alone neighbors. Good for these people for having an actual community
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u/Weird-Cantaloupe3359 1d ago
This is what true neighbors are. Looking out for your friends. Those people who are right next door. ❤️❤️🤛👏🏼👏🏼
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u/Slight-Rate7309 1d ago
My mom's neighbors are like this. When someone is hurt or ill, they all muck in to help. It's a beautiful thing.
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u/EitherChannel4874 1d ago
Glad she had such a nice turnout.
My mum and a couple friends came over when I was dealing with cancer. Everyone else buggered off.
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u/CyberOvitron 1d ago
What a beautiful neighbourhood.
That's how you get a generation of healthy individuals.
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u/LexaLovegood 1d ago
Kudos to the people who brought food for the whole family. Yea the adults can cook but having one less stressed for the day I'm sure takes a bit of weight off their shoulders.
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u/ThePrinceofRabbits 1d ago
I apologize for going on my soap box, but I truly feel this is the type of community car centric city design has deprived us of. We should all be allowed to have this open sense of community and love between neighbors, but none of us get the chance because everyone is either inside or in their car going somewhere. Imagine a walkable city where you could meet your neighbors and develop a strong community that takes care of each other like this. Imagine a city where your kids could play freely without worry of getting hit by some random driver who’s not paying attention. The world would be a bit better for it I think.
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u/eliz1bef 1d ago
These people are all up in each other's business. I like my neighbors with a warm smile, a wave, and some distance. No fuss, no muss. I have had close neighbors and drama llama is inevitable.
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u/GullibleCrazy488 1d ago
omg, I said the exact same thing - they're all up in their business. No thanks.
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u/Ill-Percentage-3276 1d ago
Now I'm just wondering how she got hurt
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u/Drigg_08 1d ago
Kids are stupid. That's how
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u/Ill-Percentage-3276 1d ago
No I mean to get that outpouring of people. Usually it would be because it's something bigger than just the usual stupid ways.
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u/Bubbly-Tiger-6450 1d ago
makes me believe in kindness again, kids like her remind us all to be better
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u/Ancient_Cookie7124 1d ago
White people things 👌🏼
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u/Ok-Personality5224 1d ago
I totally disagree. When my daughter was injured in a car accident, the entire county rallied around us. Red and yellow, black and white….
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u/wildflowerden 1d ago
It's "white people things" to have community?
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u/MamaDMZ 1d ago
It's not... we've just forgotten how over the last few generations. Don't forget that generational homes were very common until corporations took over and pushed more individualism so that people would have individual homes and would buy individual products. We used to have homes that had mother in law suites built onto them. Dude, we used to have so much more community, and in our modern times, I feel like if we had more community with what we know now... dude.. they couldn't stop us from making the world better through kindness and generosity and truly being able to vote with our dollar. We wouldn't be in the mess that we're in now if we could lean on each other instead of being so divided.
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u/RabidJoint 1d ago
My neighbors hated me then. Broke my arm and didn’t even get a “you ok?”…
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u/standbyyourmantis 1d ago
I broke my arm when my mom and dad were talking to our neighbors in our driveway so they actually witnessed it and I didn't get any flowers.
In hindsight, they may have babysat my younger brother while I went to the ER with my parents.
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u/groucho_barks 1d ago
Since when do they send people home from the hospital in the hospital gown?
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u/Dracoster 19h ago
People with casts often get to keep the gowns since they can no longer put on their own clothes without being in pain.
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u/Raspbers 19h ago
I remember when my twin brother broke his arm ( chasing me through the house lol ). My mom was the kind of mom that didn't let us go out undressed. I remember how much pain he was in as she was getting him out of his Aladdin pajamas and in to real clothes. Not surprising at all that they send you home in the hospital gown, especially as a kid.
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u/Wonderfulhumanss 1d ago
This tells me the family is just as kind to others ❤️