LI Bagel Shop Manager Drives 185 Miles To Return Customer's Keys

Acts of kindness can run the gamut from large to small. Long Island bagel shop manager Vincent Proscia's act of kindness Saturday night spanned 185 miles.

Diana Chong stopped by Bagels 101 on Middle Country Road in Middle Island Saturday morning. The Ridge woman was grabbing a coffee before heading to Pennsylvania for a "Friendsgiving." Her husband, two children and dog waited in the running car.

The family made it to their destination in Honesdale, Penn. That's when Chong realized there was a big problem. She had left her car key fob inside the bagel shop.

"Vinny was going to overnight the keys, but no mail carrier delivers on Sundays and we all have work on Monday," Chong's sister, Gina Sulrzycki wrote in a Facebook post Saturday night that has been shared thousands of times. "No dealerships out here were able to make her a new key, nor are open tomorrow. They also wouldn’t give her a rental!"

Chong was lucky, though. It turns out Vinny Proscia has a huge heart.

"He said, 'I'll drive them to you,'" Chong, of Ridge, told ABC 7 of Proscia. "No hesitation at all."

It took Proscia six hours to get to Pennsylvania because of heavy traffic, Newsday reported. But the Ronkonkoma man never second-guessed his decision to make the trip.

"It's just the right thing to do," he said, according to the ABC report. "If it happened to my wife, I would want someone else to do it for her."