I enjoy reading the genuinely inspiring "greatest thing you've ever done" thread. Thank you for sharing and IMHO no one sounds self-congratulatory. In some of those instances, you've been truly good to strangers whose name you don't know, let alone anything else about them.   Couldn't this same caritas apply to guests?
BTW, I live in the Ohio River Valley and THAT is REALLY just plain not normal.

Yours, Ingrid V.