D’ Mello Discount Hardware

D’Mello is our neighborhood Hardware Store who is originally from India. A fixture in the area for years before moving to Long Island. I use to bump on him and his wife at St. Barts Catholic Church. Our parish here in Elmhurst. A regular church goer, I was surprised to learn that his town in India was predominantly Catholic. It was where Mother Teresa, an Albanian nun by birth. … settled and founded the Missionaries of Charity catering and helping the poor, in Calkcutta India.
Around noon on Thursday at work, my husband called, my bathroom pipes broke down, not to use the sink until we get a plumber., just use Camille’s bathroom temporarity. I called 2. handy man, one we regularly used in the office and the one I regulary call in the house. Both stood me up, for 2 days, Not a goodthing. I thought about D’Mello across the street.
Due to poor health D’Mello was succeedded by his son Ivan, who helped with the family’s business, foregoing his Compuiter work in Wall Street to tend to the hardware store. Ivan was quick to learn the ropes, and mastered the skills of installing everything from plumbing, carpentry, painting, electrician… and was very helpful to all his clients, teaching them how to do little things around the house. .(Olivia…you do not need to call a plumber for this… It is an easy task… why spend so much… he would say) I’ll tell you how, anybody can do it. I eventuallly urged him to install my bathroom sink for me… A very nice gentleman… who helped everybody in the neigborhood. I am glad he is around.
No man is an island… sooner or later you’ll be needing somebody’s help… In life… an angel comes to you in the form of strangers… a friend… or a neighbor. like Ivan.