Boss Gives Student His Car for Walking to Work

You won't believe how determined this guy was to show up to work.

Every now and then, something comes up that keeps us from being able to work. We get sick, maybe snowed in and stuck at home, and sometimes we get into accidents. It happens, that's just life...but one college student was willing to do anything to make it to his first day on the job... even if it meant walking 20 miles.

Walter Carr was ready to start his new job with Bellhops Moving Company until his car broke down the night before. It was going to be his training day. He would be helping a family move into a new home, and instead of calling in to say he couldn't make it, Carr figured out how long it would take him to walk from Homewood, Alabama to Pelham... Yikes.

Carr left his house at midnight and walked for about four hours before the police found him. After telling his story, the officers took him to get breakfast and dropped him off at the home where he was supposed to work that day. Mission Accomplished, but the story doesn't end there.

The police officers who gave Carr a lift shared the story with the woman who hired the company for her move that day, and she posted the story on Facebook later that day, which eventually reached the CEO of the company, Luke Marklin, who then drove from Tennessee to give Carr his own 2014 Ford Escape and personally thank him.

Now that's instant karma for a lot of that determination. If there's anything Carr taught us from this story, it's that any distance is walking distance. It just depends on how much work you're willing to put in.