Subway rider's small kindness to a stranger is a big Internet hit
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At one time or another, we've all needed a shoulder on which to lay our weary heads. Too bad Isaac Theil wasn't there for us. Reddit user braffination snapped this photo of the 65-year-old offering a makeshift pillow to a fellow subway rider on the Brooklyn-bound Q train, explaining that Theil made no attempt to roust his seatmate. "I asked the man if he wanted me to wake the kid up," wrote braffination, "but he shook his head and responded, 'He must have had a long day, let him sleep. We've all been there, right?' " He didn't know how right he was.
Some 200,000 Facebook shares later, the photo was spotted on line by a Theil's sister in Montreal, who alerted her brother to his viral election to the Good Samaritan Hall of Fame. “Maybe the photo wouldn’t have become so popular if people weren’t seeing a Jewish man with a yarmulke and a black man in a hood, and because they might not necessarily correlate the two," Theil told Tablet Magazine. "But there is only one reason that I didn’t move, and let him continue sleeping, and that has nothing to do with race. He was simply a human being who was exhausted, and I knew it and happened to be there and have a big shoulder to offer him." [Source] [Source]
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