It’s a new year and that means some new Feel Good Friday stories!
1. A woman in Florida just got her engagement ring back 20 years after she flushed it down a toilet. It happened at the guy’s parents’ house right after they got engaged. She took it off to wash her hands and knocked it in the bowl. She actually cleaned out their septic tank looking for it back then, and never found it. But a plumber did last month while replacing their toilet. So the guy’s parents cleaned it up and gave it to her as a surprise Christmas gift.
2. A woman in West Virginia named Sharon Day just got her wallet back 54 years after she lost it at a high school dance. A contractor found it while renovating the building. He tracked her down on Facebook a week later.
3. Firefighters in Indiana saved a goose that got frozen to the ground on the shores of Lake Michigan last week. They took it to a wildlife rehab place for treatment, and it should be okay.
4. The owner of a pizza place in Scotland is starting the year by doing something nice for people. He knows money’s tight, so he’s giving out free pizza for the entire month of January. He expects it to cost him about $14,000.
5. A couple in Pennsylvania just celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. They’re both 102 years old. They met in high school in 1936 and fell in love on their very first date. They got married the day after Christmas in 1942. They say their secret is never going to bed angry.
6. Thousands of people got stranded at airports when Southwest Airlines dropped the ball over the holidays. One of them was a college kid who got stuck in Denver on Christmas Eve. But she DID eventually make it home . . . after her parents jumped in their car and drove 1,100 miles from California to pick her up.
7. And have you heard about this guy yet? Two days before Christmas, a 27-year-old named Jay Withey got stranded near Buffalo, New York during the big blizzard that came through. And he had to break into a school to find shelter. He smashed a window to get in, then went back out in the storm . . . rounded up 24 more people who were stranded on the road . . . and brought them all back. He pried open a door to the kitchen to get people food, and found blankets in the nurse’s office to keep everyone warm. They were stuck there for about 24 hours. Before they left, he wrote a note apologizing for the break-in. But cops eventually tracked him down to THANK him for it. They said he probably saved a lot of lives.
8. A guy in England named Gary McKee has been in the news after he ran 365 marathons last year, and raised over $1 million for charity.
9. A 34-year-old from England named Jess Mell just finished up a full year of trying one new thing every day. She was overwhelmed during the pandemic and thought it might help. Now she’s the happiest she’s been in a decade. A few of the new things she tried last year include golfing . . . paddle boarding . . . lock-picking . . . STREAKING . . . line dancing . . . learning her first magic trick . . . running up a ‘down’ escalator . . . and trying her first espresso martini.
10. A dog in Indiana named Misty ran off on Christmas when it was seriously cold out. So her owners didn’t think she’d make it. But they posted on Facebook, and people in their community helped track Misty down. Some used drones to search, and others sent footage from security cams. A guy ten miles away left food out and helped catch her five days later, and she’s fine. Her owners threw a thank-you dinner last night, and invited everyone who helped.
11. Two hundred of the bakers of Athens, Greece, got together to create a whopper of a cake for the New Year. Their traditional New Year’s cake, called a vasilopita, weighed in at more than 11,000 pounds. It contained 8,800 pounds of flour, 4,400 pounds of butter, 110 pounds of cognac, 2,000 eggs, 1,500 oranges and four boxes of vanilla. Then they cut it into 50,000 pieces to serve at an outdoors New Year’s bash.
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