While on a shopping trip to the Hueytown Food Giant to pick up food, one 48-year-old police officer was stunned when he noticed a 19-year-old employee’s shoes were being held together with just a few pieces of duct tape.
At first, Goldman thought the duct taped shoes might have been intentional as they boy helped him load groceries in the torrential rain. “I looked at him and said, ‘What’s up with duct tape? Is that something all the kids are doing? A fashion statement?”
But then the teenager explained that he had split them at work and was waiting for his next paycheck to buy new shoes.
This struck a chord with Goldman, and couldn’t stop thinking about the situation after he thanked the boy for helping him bring his bags to the car in the pouring rain. “I didn’t know if he had to walk home in the rain or what,” Goldman said. After delivering the food he had just purchased to the jail, he went out and bought a pair of shoes and returned to the grocery store.
After asking for the boy, the officer handed him the brand new pair of shoes. “I said, ‘Man, here you go. I didn’t know payday was Friday or two weeks from now,”’ Goldman said. “He said, ‘What do I owe you?’ and I told him to just pay it forward.”
“I hope people take from it that the police aren’t really bad. We’ve been getting such a bad rap in the news,” Goldman explained after people started taking notice of his good deed. “We’re human beings with families and kids and loved ones.”
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