I read this fantastic piece over at Greensboro.com and it made me realise that as someone who offers a service, we are extremely important to our community. This guy went above and beyond and showed the rest of us it is not all about money. What a great fellow.

Read the excerpt:

A few weeks ago my husband was being released from a rehab facility after a stay in the hospital and several weeks of rehab.

To my dismay I found that the bathroom he would have to use was not functioning. It was a Sunday, and I knew of no plumbers who work on Sunday. I called two neighbors who do some plumbing work, but neither was available.

In desperation I called a plumber who had done some work for us in Rockingham County, asking him whom he would recommend. He said that he would get his truck and be here in a short while.

I told him we were in Greensboro, not Rockingham County, but he insisted that he would be here shortly.

I left for church, and when I returned, he had just finished fixing the commode and would take no payment.

Richard Pridemore is the personification of a good neighbor … and a good human being. When we got my husband home that afternoon, everything was functioning. Our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Pridemore … retired but still accommodating people in distress.