00:00These people owning this home are teachers because they're willing to dip into their own pockets to spend their own
00:06money.
00:06So now before you know it, other kids are coming. They sit with this young girl.
00:11I want to tell you about a couple named Maren and David Douglas or Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Douglas as
00:18their students know them.
00:19Oh, they are a married couple, both teachers, and they realized about two weeks into school that there was a
00:27young girl who would pick up her bus.
00:30At the end of their driveway.
00:31So they noticed on their cameras on their house that, like, this car would pull up.
00:36Dad would drop off this young girl.
00:38And the first day, you could see that she was a little uncomfortable because she's standing in front of a
00:43stranger's house waiting for her bus.
00:44And then as the weeks progressed, she would get a little more comfortable and she would sit on the ground
00:50right at the edge of the driveway waiting for the school bus to come.
00:54And they realized it's about two weeks into school and they felt terrible because here's this young girl.
01:00Standing all by herself in a stranger's driveway or sitting, right, sitting on the ground in the stranger's driveway.
01:07So one weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas decided to put up a park bench so that this young girl had
01:16a place to sit.
01:18That Monday, Dad drops her off.
01:21She gets out of the car, looks at the park bench, looks at the house, and starts jumping for joy
01:29that she has a bench to sit on.
01:32Nice.
01:32Oh, my gosh.
01:33The next week, she gets out of the car.
01:36And not only is there a park bench there, but there is one of those free libraries.
01:41You know those little boxes with, like, yeah, you take a book, leave a book kind of a thing.
01:45Oh, my goodness.
01:47So now, before you know it, other kids are coming.
01:50They sit with this young girl.
01:51They take a book and leave a book.
01:53They're all reading.
01:54They're all getting their bus there.
01:56Yes.
01:56And Maren was so touched, Mrs. Douglas, because this young girl left her a note and a bouquet of flowers.
02:04Oh, my gosh.
02:05Thanking her for the Douglas' thoughtfulness in making her ride to school every day that much more comfortable.
02:13It's the least surprising thing at all that these people owning this home are teachers.
02:18Because they're willing to dip into their own pockets to spend their own money to make the life of one
02:25and now many children much, much better.
02:28Oh, my gosh.
02:30She could not have been lucky enough to be in front of anybody else's house other than the Douglas'.
02:35This story is on TikTok, and you just have to see this girl jumping for joy when she seesāand there's
02:42no one there.
02:43She doesn't have anyone to thank.
02:44She's never met this couple.
02:45But she looks at it and is like, she knows, that's for me!
02:49That's my bench!
02:50So cute.
02:50That's some pure joy right there.
02:52Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, shout out.
02:55That's incredible.
