Will Ice House: Small-Business and Community Support

How you doing, brother? Sorry to bother you. not bothering me at all. Do you have a stack?

A snack? Yeah. [music] I can get you one. From where?

From the store. You sure? Yeah, you look a little peaky. Yeah, I'm hungry.

you like? I like whatever. Donuts? You want a coffee?

I'm Josh, by the way. I'm Will. Couple of donuts here. One of them's Bismark.

Oh, I did One of them's uh old fashioned. Do you have heating here? Yes, sir. You do?

Fell asleep the other day with the heat on. One of the small heaters on my hand, I burnt my hand. Oh, no. It looks good compared to how it was.

It never fall asleep with the heater on. So, this is where you stay? Yeah. Yeah.

Do you like it? Yeah. Yeah, I love it, actually. You don't require much.

I don't. Pretty easy. Trying to get my kids back up here from My wife and kids are down in Texas. Oh, in Texas?

Yeah, their mom can't get We're trying to fix her papers so she can come up. How much did you pay for this? Nothing, actually. You didn't pay anything?

No, it was It's part of the The what they do is they keep tires in there. Oh. That's full of tires and then it's half half my you know Where you sleep? Yeah.

Are you struggling yourself? I mean, depends on how you say struggling. I'm not struggling, but my kids [music] could My kids could use me. I work at nights, right?

So What do you do? For work here at the here at the tire shop. Oh, really? So, they let you live here for free because you're security?

Correct. You mind if I take a look? I don't mind at all. Maybe warm up a little bit.

Come on. As you can see, everywhere [music] there's space, we have tires. Is it hard to live in these conditions? I mean, with the heater and stuff and under the blanket, not really when it's cold.

What's your dream? My dream is to get my kids up here, whether it rent [music] or have our own house, to get them up here and to get them all started off in their lives. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Why'd you give me the donut, man? You're struggling. [music] I've been there. There's a saying in Spanish, but "water for me, mañana for ti." [music] Which for me is basically today.

If I can do good today, then you know, maybe tomorrow you can do good. Yeah, or [music] today, and then today again, right? Some people don't really get it, yeah. I appreciate you.

Yeah, yeah. What's that for, sir? I appreciate you, man. God bless.

I sure came up quick on that, didn't I? Yeah, God bless you, man. What does that mean to you? [music] It means about I can help somebody.

Tonight, against my boss's wishes, I'm kind of like a little warming house here. Just people out there with wet feet, and wet [music] shoes, and wet socks. It felt the right thing to do, I guess.