the garbage truck made its way through their neighborhood every thursday and stop at one particular townhouse the driver would get out of his truck and stand on the side of the street waiting but what on earth could he be waiting for she watched as three-year-old brooklyn andraki approached the man she wondered what was going on she quickly got her phone from her bag and started recording the incident [Music] delver dobson was well known in the community he’d been a sanitation worker in that neighborhood for years

even though he was a reserved man and a majority of people had never spoken to him a neighbor had the opportunity to get to know delver up close one day the events that followed were recorded on video and have been seen by people worldwide bloomington illinois was the setting for this story there are a lot of unspoken things that go on in our communities that we can learn from this story delver dobson as previously said was not a particularly gregarious individual this however does not imply that he was rude in fact he appeared to get along

well with one family in the area the andrakas each thursday dobson used to greet the andrakas family with his distinctive greeting when the garbage truck rolled through the neighborhood honking and waving at the andrakis every time he passes by their house were his routines the question is why what was his bond with them the answer is straightforward he had never met them before brooklyn the andrakist three-year-old daughter was a massive admirer of the area’s beloved sanitation worker it was a treat for her to see the

enormous truck drive past her house on thursday mornings for some unknown reason and she makes sure everyone knew about it every time the garbage truck passed she waited at the window with her mother and waved that was the highlight of her wii when questioned about the event her mother trassa andraki said to brooklyn he is our favorite wonderful cheerful garbage man it was brooklyn’s fourth birthday and it was a fantastic day however it was not without flaws she was heartbroken over the fact that it was wednesday

meeting dobson as he drove his truck down the block would have improved her day brooklyn and tracy on the other hand have devised a strategy to compensate and it was all witnessed by one of the locals who didn’t think twice about filming it for all to see it was thursday the following day which meant that brooklyn got to see dobson again she wanted to make sure that he felt included in her birthday celebration even if he was not there brooklyn and her mother got up early the following day and stood in front of the

property with one of brooklyn’s celebration cupcakes they smiled at dobson and signaled for him to come over when the truck finally came from his truck dobson saw brooklyn and trasi and just like every other week he waved and honked at them but then he noticed that the mom and her daughter wanted him to stop and so he did he walked out of the truck and walked towards brooklyn and trash eye and his heart melted when the little girl with a shy smile gave him the cupcake while trasa told him about how it was her birthday yesterday and they wished he

would have been there as a mom i can’t even describe how happy it made me that she got to meet him finally andraki told the press when she was questioned about the story some days later she was literally starstruck and could not even say a word i had to do all the talking for her and she is never usually short on words i explained to him that he makes our day every thursday and we really appreciate the honking and waving and how special of a day it is for us she added after he left we continued on a daycare brooklyn was unusually quiet in the back

seat i asked her if she was okay and she said mommy i’m so happy and the story doesn’t end there one week later dobson’s truck was rolling down the street again and as usual brooklyn and trasai were waving at him from their yard but suddenly dobson stopped in front of their house and got out of the truck with a box with a smile he handed the box to brooklyn what could that be brooklyn and trasai couldn’t wait to find out as they opened the box intrigued it was full of toys from brooklyn’s favorite movie frozen the little girl couldn’t contain her

excitement she and her mom wholeheartedly thank dobson and one week later they had something prepared to thank him brooklyn made a big note with the words thank you delver written on it dobson was moved to tears by this gesture and from then on he hung the letter on his truck so the whole neighborhood could see it in today’s fast-paced social media driven world it seems like something new goes viral every day sometimes these stories end up that way for the wrong reasons and in cases like delvars and brooklyn’s because of great

reasons with so many seemingly ordinary people being thrust into the spotlight many viral stories end up as sensations today and forgotten tomorrow delvar dobson’s story wasn’t one of these his story was only just beginning before delvor became a viral sensation many people did not know he was quietly working his way up in the world for delvar being a garbageman was a job that he took pride in just as he did with everything else he set his mind too however to delvar being a garbageman was also a stepping stone

he had other plans and the time came to make them a reality [Music] you