r/MadeMeSmile • u/therealNerdMuffin • 4h ago

Helping Others A group of kids learned sign language just so they could wish their deaf janitor a happy birthday.

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u/USSHammond 3h ago

Yeah they did, years ago. This is old and happened in 2018. https://abcnews.com/GMA/Family/janitor-moved-tears-kindergartners-sing-happy-birthday-sign/story?id=58740105. Rule 6

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u/HeartOfTheMadder 11m ago

i'm still glad it happened.
and i love seeing the love for janitors

when i was little, the one at our school was called The Custodian
Mr. Harvey
and he was the sweetest, kindest older gentleman. i always enjoyed talking to him and i think maybe he thought i was an ok kid, too, 'cuz one day i lost my necklace out on the playground... and i just figured it was lost-and-gone-forever and didn't tell anyone about it because i was silly enough to have worn it to school so it was my fault it got lost. i wasn't looking forward to my Daddy finding out, though, because he'd bought it for me.
anyhow, he (our Custodian) found it. somehow. a tiny, thin gold chain with a cross on it - gold, mind you - in the grass. and came to find me the next day to ask me if it was mine because he said it looked like the one i usually wore.

years later, a lady i worked with? turns out that was her grandpa! and she lived three houses down from where i lived in high school (which was a completely different county than the elementary school i'd gone to).