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I leave for work at the same time every morning – at 3:40 a.m. The consistency of my schedule lends itself to another odd consistency; I drive by the same man at about the same place in the road every morning.

Being the naturally curious person I am with an affinity for what’s been described as interrogation-style question-and-answer getting-to-know-you sessions, I want to know why our paths cross as they do.

Is he walking to work? Is he walking home from a bar? Is he homeless? Where does he work? Who is he? How old is he? How far does he walk? Does he have comfortable shoes? What does his voice sound like?

Yes, I want to know all of that – and more.

What stops me from parking my car to pepper him with questions is that voice in the back of my head (or, once when I shared this story on Seattle’s Morning News, a text from my mother warning me to not pick up strangers) that tells me stopping on the side of the road in the dark to talk to a person I do not know is risky, at best.

Also, don’t you think that would freak him out? The only other car on the road – albeit a familiar one as I’ve seen him look up at me – stopping suddenly and waiting for him to approach?

I’ll probably never know his story, but I do wish him the best. I like to imagine that he is a father of three walking miles to work to provide for his family. Because people like that do exist.

Take, for instance, Shantelle Priester of Jamesville, New York. to get to her job at the penitentiary. She’s tried to get the bus system to run a route to the penitentiary, but they’ve declined. A job is a job and Shantelle had no other choice but to keep trudging on. That was until she caught the attention of a news crew.

You can hear Colleen O鈥橞rien’s “Daily Dose of Kindness” segment every morning at 7:30 a.m. on 成人X站 Radio 97.3 FM