When Bundoora’s Harvey Mynott made a trip to the supermarket recently, the last thing he expected to come home with was a motorised scooter.
Mr Mynott was shopping with wife Val at Woolworths Bundoora on April 26 when staff surprised him with the scooter.
Mr Mynott, 85, had a fall last November that left him in a wheelchair.
Since then, Mrs Mynott, 84, has been pushing her husband around in his wheelchair. The couple has been shopping at Woolworths Bundoora for more than 30 years and are well-known to the store’s team.
Produce team leader Dylan James, who organised the purchase of the scooter, said his colleagues were more than happy to donate money because they knew the difference the scooter would make to Mr Mynott’s life.
Store manager Terry Adams said the Mynotts visited the store two to three times a week prior to the accident, but had found it difficult to get out since.
Mr Mynott said the scooter was a tremendous surprise.
“It is a wonderful thing these people have done,” he said. “I was starting to feel sorry for Val pushing me along all the time.”
