hummer010: Yesterday, I plowed my neighbours driveway.
I'm from a small town about about 600 in Maine where I was a volunteer EMT. We had a lot of retired folks.
Every time it snowed, we would get a slew of chest pain calls. The husband would go out to shovel their driveway and start having pains. We'd show up and have to take them in, usually with the wife standing in the doorway yelling at him reminding that this same thing happened last time.
It got to the point that we had so many of these calls and it was the same folks over and over again, the town just hired a dozen+ of us and we plowed the entire town. Every driveway and parking lot. The town trucks took the streets but quite often, we would do them as we went. The town for some silly legal reason would not plow dirt roads and we had about a dozen miles of them, mostly out to the lakes where the summer folks stayed in their cabins.
Of course then we had to deal with the husbands yelling at us telling us that they didn't need our help and that they could do their own driveways, etc.
We carried carrots for any deer and moose we saw.
Some of the town folks had coffee, cocoa and cookies for us and would come out to greet us One of the restaurants always made us a meal for free although we always gave the money that would have covered the meal to the staff as a tip. (They had to be there during the storm anyway.)
Here in Charlotte? A couple weeks ago I got stopped by a police officer. I have a habit of picking up trash as I walk along the sidewalks. Someone called and complained that I had entered their property and stolen something.
I was thinking about this a few days ago which is why it;s a bit detailed.