WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) An 83-year-old man from Florida who pushed his lawnmower more than two miles to work after his truck broke down has been gifted a new car.
John Joyce from St. Petersburg has been mowing lawns as a hobby after retiring 25 years ago.
But when his 1995 Ford F-150 broke down beyond repair – he started pushing it 2.5 miles as he walked from his house just so he could get to work at a couple’s home near Gulfport, WTSP reported.
When Robert and Nikki Norton, the couple whose lawn he has mowed for eight years, realized this, they started a GoFundMe page and raised enough money to get Joyce a new truck complete with insurance, a new lawn mower and gas money.
‘I just couldn’t bear to see you showing up at my house and pushing that lawnmower and not having a vehicle and I didn’t think you were going to have the means to get one,’ Robert told Joyce.
‘I didn’t know how we were going to get you one. I said to Nikki, ‘Maybe we can give some of our wedding money.’ She suggested we try a Go Fund Me. So, this was her idea.’
With the GoFundMe page, the Nortons raised $13,080 in one month and bought Joyce a 2004 Nissan SE King Cab V8 truck.
‘I feel like a millionaire,’ Joyce told WTSP.
Joyce’s truck broke down last month just after he recovered from being sick in the hospital.
The transmission on his truck went out and the engine block was damaged which could not be repaired.
Read More: Donations help get truck for lawn mowing man
