When Lucy Crutchfield dialed her daughter’s number at 5 am on the day before Thanksgiving, she didn’t expect to find a stranger’s kindness on the other end of the line. She was calling to tell her daughter that she’d send money for groceries, even though she’d have to miss one of her mortgage payments to do so, according to NBC San Diego.
But she dialed a wrong number and instead heard the voice of Virginia Saenz on the phone. As a real estate agent in a San Diego suburb, Saenz knew how bad a lot of people had it in this crushed economy. Her heart went out to the struggling mom and daughter, and she did the only thing she could think of.
She told Crutchfield she would buy her daughter the groceries she needed, leaving Crutchfield to take care of her mortgage. This was nothing short of manna from Heaven for Crutchfield, whose house is already in foreclosure. After her mother recently passed away, she has been trying to pay off her house.
Saenz called Crutchfield’s daughter to find out what kind of groceries to buy.
“I asked her what she would like, what her kids like, and then I felt really bad because she said she only wanted eggs and milk,” Saenz told NBC. “When somebody only asks you for eggs and milk, they are in a really bad situation.”
When Saenz went grocery shopping on Thanksgiving morning, she picked up enough food to give Crutchfield’s daughter and her family Thanksgiving dinner and and a full belly through the end of the month.
It made Saenz feel good. “I helped somebody,” she told NBC. “I think it’s what anybody would have done.”
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