Wrong Number Miracle
Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter money
By ERIC S. PAGE
Updated 1:18 PM PST, Mon, Nov 30, 2009
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Wrong-Number-Miracle-76368647.html?yhp=1
Virginia Saenz could hear the desperation in the voice of the telephone message. It was 5 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the caller, Lucy Crutchfield, was trying to tell her daughter that she'd send money for groceries -- but she'd have to miss a mortgage payment to do it.
But Crutchfield dialed the wrong number. Instead of getting her daughter, she got Saenz, a real estate agent from the San Diego suburb of Tierrasanta.
"I know right now we are all struggling," Saenz said. "Lisa on the phone, she sounded so desperate for her daughter, it broke my heart."
Saenz did the only thing she could think of -- she called Crutchfield back and said not to worry. Crutchfield would pay the mortgage, and Saenz would handle the groceries.
Stories like these still give me hope for the world and the people in it. Such a great thing to do.