Here are some Feel Good Friday stories making the rounds . . .
1. A 90-year-old woman in Texas named Melba Mebane just retired after working at the same Dillard’s department store for 74 YEARS. She started in 1949 as an elevator operator, and eventually switched to cosmetics. In 74 years, she never called in sick or missed a single day of work.
2. A guy in Iowa had a pretty good weekend last month. He proposed to his girlfriend on Friday, June 23rd, and she said yes. Then the next day, he bought a lottery ticket and won $390,000. He says they’re planning to buy a house now.
3. Four sisters from Nebraska are in the news, because they’re all pregnant at the same time. They range in age from 25 to 33, and they didn’t plan it. It just happened. They’re all due between August and November.
4. A cop in Georgia pulled a woman from a burning car on Saturday, and his chest-cam got it on video. She was still buckled in, and he had to break her window with his baton. (Here’s the full video.)
5. This happened back in the spring, but Fox News just did a big story: Two kids in Tennessee named Tatum Kelly and Leighton Long recently went to prom together . . . 17 years after they were neighbors in the NICU as babies. Leighton was 12 weeks premature, and weighed 2 pound 10 ounces. Tatum came 16 weeks early, and only weighed 1 pound 7 ounces, but they both survived. Their moms stayed in touch, so they’ve been friends all these years.
6. And speaking of proms: Duck Brand duct tape did its annual contest again where high schoolers make their entire prom dress or tux out of duct tape. They just announced the finalists, and you can vote online. All ten of them are VERY impressive this year. The best dress and tux will each get a $10,000 prize. Runners-up get a $500 scholarship.
7. Animals at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago got to celebrate the Fourth AND beat the heat with some frozen red-white-and-blue treats. The polar bears got blocks of red-white-and-blue ice with frozen fruit in it. The seals and sea lions got treats too.
8. Speaking of animals: Did you see the viral video last week of a chimp named Vanilla seeing the SKY for the first time? She was born in captivity and spent 28 years in an animal testing lab before a group called Save the Chimps took her in. Now there’s an update: Save the Chimps said that in the first four days after the video blew up, they received around $50,000 in donations. That’s compared to just $2,700 the week before. (Here’s the video.)
9. A doctor in Florida named Thomas McMeekin recently reconnected with his high school sweetheart 56 YEARS after they first started dating. And I guess he didn’t want to go another day without her. Her name is Nancy Gambell. They just started talking again last month because their 60th reunion is coming up. And they decided to give it another shot. Now a video is going viral after Thomas showed up in a suit-and-tie to pick her up at the Tampa airport last Friday . . . and PROPOSED right there in the terminal. It had only been 20 days since they reconnected, but she said yes. They’re already planning the wedding. (Here’s a photo, and here’s the full video.)
10. A cop in Virginia ran into a burning building last month to save three dogs. Now there’s body-cam footage of it online. All three dogs made it out.
11. Best grandma ever? This lady really had to work for it: Back in November, a woman in Massachusetts named Pat Morse bought Taylor Swift tickets for each of her five granddaughters. Then it almost fell through. She bought them through StubHub for a show in May. But back in February, she got an email from StubHub saying there were “no tickets available.” The seller flaked, and StubHub claimed there was nothing they could do. But Pat refused to break her grandkids’ hearts. So she went to her local news. StubHub has a “guarantee.” So if something like this happens, you’re supposed to get similar seats to the same event. And once her local news got involved, they immediately buckled. Within 24 hours, Pat’s granddaughters had BETTER seats about 20 rows closer. One of them called it “the best night of [her] life.”
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