Ealing

Mission

Build me beddy one more time

2 GoodGymers made their way to help an isolated older person in Ealing.

  • Sevan
  • Kash
 
Saturday, 26th of November 2022

Once upon a time, there was a couple. He was a hard-working man wearing a uniform, and she was a petite lady who believed that doing good for others will be rewarded. They fell in love and got married. They settled in Ealing, had children, and lived happily ever after. The end.

Or is it? One day Mr M, this is the husband's name, went to the dry cleaners to make his uniform neat and crisp. When he was crossing the road, a car bashed into him. Mr M was taken to the hospital with a broken leg. Fast forward four weeks he was ready to go back home. Unfortunately, he still couldn't walk and needed a hospital bed - and there was no space in his home for it. The end.

Or is it? This is where Sevan and Kash entered the story to fix the ending. They met Mr M's wife at her house and were given two things: the instructions on how to make space on the ground floor and the Love Story Repair Kit. The instructions were as follows: move Bed A from one room to another on the first floor, then take Bed B from the ground floor upstairs. Seems easy, right?

Both beds were big and heavy, while the doors were narrow, and the passages between rooms bendy. Sevan and Kash were not up for tactical manoeuvres or relying purely on muscle strength and luck. They opened the Love Story Repair Kit and found spanners, Allen keys and screwdrivers. They decided to dismantle entire beds, move them to their destination points and assemble them again. When Sevan used the term "structural integrity", Kash had no doubt they had some decent engineering skills in their team!

The tools were excellent - even the tricky bolts Sevan and Kash saw for the first time were no match for them. In absence of instructions, the team was having lots of fun while solving two sets of bed construction puzzles. To make sure the mission contains a physical element to it, the GoodGymers moved a heavy sofa that was blocking the bed's emergency exit from the room.

After the job was done, the beds built and all nuts and bolts screwed tightly, Mrs M invited Sevan and Kash for a cup of tea. She offered some snacks - they couldn't say no to more nuts that day - this time the edible ones! Mrs M told them about her husband's accident and about her life. She was not only the main administrator in the family but also spent years caring for her parents-in-law and her brother-in-law. She was making regular donations to several charities and still does it for a few of them.

Mrs M was a great inspiration in doing good for Sevan and Kash. They wished for Mr M's fast return home and speedy recovery, then set off for their next ventures to acquire some good karma. The end.

Report written by Kash


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