Help from a Stranger

* Recently I had gone to the Beverly Hills Municipal Courthouse for a hearing. I parked in front of the building, and in my rush I failed to put a coin in the parking meter. Two hours later as I approached my car I saw what from a distance appeared to be ticket under my windshield wiper, but I was relieved to find rather a handwritten note on tissue paper:

“Dear Sir. It is now 2:00. Your parking meter ran out apx. 1/2 hour ago. I just put in another quarter. Hope you return by then. A Friend.”

After the recent earthquake, strangers helping strangers proved in a large and dramatic way that man can still be decent and good to his fellow man. I think this incident proves in a little way that is still true.

CHARLES H. FULLER

Beverly Hills