Credit: JODIE GREENE VIA WTVR
BuzzFeed, ever the social portal into what makes humans the best and the worst, gives us today a look at 14-year-old Dylan Johnson, an autistic teenager from Virginia who loves vacuum cleaners. 

When his mother, Jodie Greene, reached out to Cleveland-based Kirby Vacuums, salesman Al Archie came out to their house to do a personal presentation of the company’s products. The surprise was tremendous, his mother says.

“[Dylan] was more excited than I have ever seen him,” Jodie says. “It was wonderful to see true happiness.”

At the end of the demo, Archie gave the vacuum to Dylan as a present.

Read more at WTVR. 

This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2015.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.