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Something to make you smile
If I lived in Pittsburg, I'd have this guy shine my shoes. And who knew that PIttsburgh had an Oakland neighborhood.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24 — Just as he’s done for more than two decades, Albert Lexie gets out of bed at 5 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, takes two buses to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and makes his rounds — offering shoe shines for $3.
ALSO EVERY TUESDAY, Lexie goes to an office building about three blocks from the hospital and hands over his weekly donation — shoeshine tips, gifts from customers and contributions — to the hospital’s Free Care Fund.
Lexie’s efforts make about $10,000 every year, and he’s donated more than $89,000 since February 1981 to the fund, which helps pay for medical care to pediatric patients regardless of their families’ ability to pay.
Most people who know Lexie say he’s a man of routine and a man of goals. Ultimately, he wants to raise more money than Jerry Lewis, the actor whose Labor Day telethons raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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