Tying a shoe lace for Fiji

PeOPLe raise and receive money for needy causes, like the financial hardship caused by Covid 19, sometimes in interesting unusual ways.

Read what happened to our BIT correspondent, 76 year old Peter Lane Rai who returns to Fiji again in early March to do more voluntary work with young people.

On his last trip, after an exercise session with a Church Youth Group , he gave each teenager a running shirt, donated from his Brisbane “Intraining running club”.

Pete was on a one hour run that took him along the Brisbane River under the “Go Between Bridge” when a tall slim man, in his 30’s with, long dark hair, beard, dressed in a suit and tie, approached him.

“Could you please tie up my shoe lace?” then also mumbled something incoherently about coffee and a $20 note ,which he asked Pete to hold.

As Pete has also done “seva kar karm “in the Golden Temple in Amritsar he was more than happy to help the man.

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Quickly bending down to tie up the shoe lace as he wanted to complete his run and keeping the $20.00 in his hand he tied up the shoe lace.

Even quicker, the man, stood up, then raced off like a 100 metre sprinter, only glancing behind when he was 40 metres away. while Pete just stood there $20 in hand too dumbfounded to chase him. Pete then realized that the man had actually wanted to give him the $20.00 so didn’t bother chasing him to return the money.

Pete clutching the $20 in his hand completed his run with another donation for families who have lost their livelihood in Covid ravaged Fiji. The moral of the story: tie up peoples shoe laces and you might get money which you can donate to a charity!