Shoe shiner donates $200K in tips to children in need
PITTSBURGH, PA —It starts before dawn in the Pittsburgh darkness as the 88 Penn pulls up in front of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Albert Lexie gets off.
For 32 years, Lexie has been examining his schedule each morning, like a doctor on the clock. But the longtime shoe shiner’s gift isn’t healing, it’s giving back.
A shoe shine costs $5, but Lexie said customers have been generous with their tips since he started working at the hospital in 1981.
“Most of them give $6, some of them give $7,” Lexie told Channel 4 Action News anchor Wendy Bell.
And Lexie gives every cent of his tips back to the children.
“I think he does it because he loves the kids,” said Dr. Joseph Carcillo. “He's donated over a third of his lifetime salary to the Children’s Hospital Free Care Fund.”
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Wow, for this man.
And, wow, shining ~200,000 pairs of shoes. He obviously loves his work and the people he serves.
