Things that make you go :)

Sometimes the simplest things have the biggest impact. On my way home this afternoon, I got behind a school bus. Nothing unusual in and of itself, but at its second stop on a rural road near my house, I saw something I thought happened only in the movies or old Ken-L-Ration commercials. A shepherd-mix dog came running full-tilt toward the stopped bus just as the last kid got off. It was apparently the kid's dog, and they were both so glad to see each other it made me smile real big. As I watched them run off together in my rear view mirror, I noticed the woman in the car behind me watching the boy and his dog. She was smiling, too. Thanks, kid, for giving us a nice moment on this Earth.