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On Monday, December 12, when 52-year-old school bus driver John Lunceford picked up a young boy, who looked “only about 6,” who wasn’t wearing proper winter gear to protect him from the cold.
That day, it’d been bitterly cold in Kennewick, Washington, where Lunceford worked.
The boy was crying when he climbed into the bus and Lunceford immediately noticed, “His ears were red and his hands were pink.”
Lunceford didn’t pause before pulling off his own gloves and putting them onto the cold, pink hands of the little boy.
The boy cried all the way to school.
As Lunceford continued on his route, he made a decision to stop by a local store close to the school all his students attended.
There, he bought 10 sets of hats and gloves for the kids and told the first boy he helped that any of his friends in need of warm clothing should come see him.
This was why a little girl later approached Lunceford saying she needed a hat. He replied, “Sweetie, I’ll give it to you when you get on the bus tonight.”
Lunceford has since become a sensation on the Internet. Everyone is praising and commending him for his good deeds.
The grandfather, however, doesn’t like the attention.
“I wasn’t doing it for popularity. I did it because it was the right thing to do. That’s the way I was raised,” he said. He knows other bus drivers who would – and do, do – the same for their kids because they all just want the children they drive to be happy, warm, and well.
“Kids can’t fend for themselves,” Lunceford explained. “It’s up to us adults to take care of them.”
