'To Charlie, my Dad fixed your scooter': Newport boy's delight at act of kindness
Little Charlie Walker was left devastated when his favourite scooter broke. But thanks to the kindness of strangers, he is happily riding around the streets of Newport again.
Charlie, four, a pupil at Newport Infants School, was riding his favourite blue scooter to school when the wheel fell off.
His mum, Emily, 24, said: "The wheel had been seizing up but it came off and went into the road. We were running late so I said we would leave it there and I would pick it up after we got to school.
"He was sobbing when he got to school and when I got back it had gone."
Emily, of Water Lane, said she assumed that it had been collected for scrap and found an older scooter for him to use until she could get him a replacement for Christmas.
She said: "He still wasn't happy because it wasn't his. It has his own little number plate on."
But a couple of days later, as the pair walked past the spot where they had lost the scooter, they found it returned, repaired and with a little sign that said: "To Charlie – my dad fixed your scooter, from Edmund."
Emily said: "He cried because he was so happy to have his scooter back."
She was so delighted that she took to Facebook in the hopes of tracking down the kind person who had repaired the scooter and within a few hours was put in touch with the father of a child at Charlie's school who had repaired his toy, who she believes is called Richard Mason
She said: I can't believe how thoughtful people can be. Charlie was over the moon to see it back. He came over to us at the school gates on Friday and said he had seen we'd got it back.
"I left a thank you card and some sweets at the reception at the school to give to the little boy's class."
"It was lovely, it makes you happy to live in a town like that. I'd like to say a huge thank you to the man who fixed it."
