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| Maddie Dimetrosky, 11, helps Tashi, 14 down the handicapped ramp letter carrier Jeff Kramer built for Tashi so' they can greet each other every day. Photo by Jeremy Pappaso/Boulder Daily Camera. |
Today's installment takes us to snowy Boulder, Colorado, where a letter carrier named Jeff Kramer always liked the greeting he got from a dog named Tashi at one particular house on his route.
According to the Boulder Daily Camera:
"'He would just come by eery day and pet him,' said Tashi's owner Karen Dimetrosky. 'Tashi would hang out outside and would always get so excited when Jeff came. He would always try to pull me toward the mail truck.'"
Tashi is now 14 years old, elderly, and can't walk so well anymore. So Tashi's human family started having to carry the dog up and down the front stairs to greet Kramer.
Kramer had recently lost an old dog, which had used a handicapped access ramp to get into his house.
So why not give Tashi the ramp?
At first, Kramer just dropped off the wood from the ramp and the Dimetroskys would use the wood to build a new ramp. But the family isn't particularly handy, or good at carpentry
So, Kramer came back and built the ramp himself. "I just noticed they needed it," Kramer explained.
"I can't image not having the ramp now. It's the only way he gets in and out," Dimetrosky told the Daily Camera.
Now, no need to carry Tashi to greet Kramer. He just uses the ramp so Kramer and Tashi still get to have their daily happy moment.
The irony of being a letter carrier who did this is not lost on Kramer. "Yeah, a mailman who likes dogs. Go figure," Kramer said.
Yeah, I know the story about Tashi isn't a big important news flash, but ti's always great to see a small, pleasant moment in the middle of the world's chaos.
Here's the Boulder Daily Camera's YouTube story on Kramer and Tashi:
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