Because You Are Wonderful
Trucker surprises supporter who gives him cash.
On the ground during the Ottawa protest there was unstinting generosity, a rare nobility of spirit. The heart motif was everywhere. For love, humans will do anything. For love, some will give everything.
Romanian immigrant Csaba Vizi protested in Ottawa for three weeks. He only departed after he was violently arrested and his truck impounded. He, too, reports receiving gobs of cash from a grateful public.
During an interview in early March, he says:
Some people they was willing to give you the very last, the very last they had. You know, I have an example for this. After this person saw [a YouTube video in which Csaba talked about being the last to leave Ottawa] …he said to me I made him cry. And the next day in the morning, the very last amount of money [that] was in his possession he buy a jug for fuel and he went to a gas station and fill it up with diesel and he was walking five kilometers away to give me that fuel.
Can you imagine that? People, they was willing to give the very last what they have?
Asked by the interviewer about a particular individual who gave him money, Csaba responds:
One day someone came to my truck and he was asking me if he can get into my truck and talk with me. I said ‘Yeah, sure.’ And he told me he also watched this exact video what I’m talking about, and said he was touched right in his heart. And he put me on the dashboard a large amount of money. In $100 bills. And he told me, ‘I want you to have it. If you decide to help others, it’s totally up to you.’
After he left the truck, I was still shocked. Shocked and, I don’t know, probably scared. I don’t remember exact how I felt but, I was in shock, OK. Then I decide to just leave my truck, go down on the street. And I was giving bill by bill to people who was doing volunteer jobs over there. Like picking up the garbage. If you was there, then you know. They pick up from the ground also the cigarette [butts]…The city was, in that Hot Zone, was cleaner than on a normal day.
And I was giving away my money. I remember a guy came to me. Because it was cold, I have to take breaks between spreading the money left and right. I get back in my truck to get warm before I leave again and somebody show up with a 20 dollars bill. And he said, ‘I want you to have it.’ So I accept his 20 and instead I give him a 100.
And the guy was completely shocked. He said ‘Hey, what the hell are you doing?’ I said, ‘Just a trade. I keep yours, you keep mine.’ He said, ‘But, why, man? But why?’
I said, ‘Because you are wonderful, that’s why.’
