Louisville's littlest lunch lady | Kind 2-year-old makes meals for trashmen every week

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Mondays are busy days, for Louisville's littlest lunch lady.

"Don't rip it," mother Rosa Moran said to her daughter, as the two made a sandwich.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Hailey Whiteside's morning is split between the kitchen with her mom, and running back and forth to the front door.

"Nope!" she said as she looked outside.

Hailey is waiting for that first sign, that the people she's making lunch for, are getting close.

"She hears their brakes, oh it's on," said Moran.

There's no Easy Bake oven at the house on Fister Court, but the little cook has been preparing a ham sandwich. That's fitting, because Hailey is quite the ham, especially as she showed off a clip-on Disney princess braid.

"I don't know what it is about this hair right now, but we take it everywhere," Moran said.

When you've been through what Hailey's mom has, the little girl's happiness is everything.

"We were at 10 weeks, and we lost her sibling," Moran said. "She was born a year exact to the day later, so it was a true blessing."

Around the time mom shared those details from a dark day in life, Hailey heard those brakes.

"You think they're hungry?" Moran asked the 2-year-old.

In the middle of 550 stops during the work day, Hailey's lunch guests arrived. They are the trash guys from Hometown Hauling.

Deliveries were made.

"Oh yeah, it's always good," said trashman, Damien McQuilling.

Tiny hugs were handed out. The exchange means as much to the grown men as the little girl drawing on their truck with chalk.

"She's the best part of our day," McQuilling said.

"My sister just passed away last month, my transmission in my truck just went out," said driver, Patrick Gullion. "It gives me purpose to get up and come to work, and do a good job."

"It shows that they are not just garbage men," Moran said.

The mom and daughter also show there are good people that live on almost every street.

One person's trash man is another's treasured friend.

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