Source: Good News Network
A young man’s perseverance and spirit has earned him praise from around the world – and a big reward he didn’t see coming.
The night before his first day of work with a moving company, Walter Carr’s vehicle broke down, and though he frantically tried to find someone to drive him the 20 miles— everything fell through.
The 20 year-old was broke and he didn’t want to miss the first day of his job, so he decided to walk the 20 miles from his apartment in Birmingham, Alabama to the job site, which he calculated would take him seven hours.
He took a long nap, got up at midnight, and started walking. Half way there, he decided to take a break in a parking lot, when a police car pulled up. Officer Mark Knighten listened as the young man explained his determination to get to his first day of work. He offered to buy him a hot breakfast and drove him the last ten miles.
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