Vodka on the Porch

A story a co-worker related to me:

One winter, on a really cold evening, her neighbor knocked on her door. He'd come to inform her that it was going to get below -40 that night, and so she'd better take her vodka off the porch.

It hadn't occurred to him that she might not have vodka, or that if she did, she'd keep it in the fridge and not on the porch.

But it had occurred to him that being a foreigner, she might not realize that vodka freezes at -40.

So there's an act of kindness for you--a stranger telling you to take your vodka off your porch so it won't freeze.