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The wallet has been returned!

October 31st, 2006 at 06:22 pm

I just received a telephone call from my wife at home letting me know that my wallet just returned home after 3 days missing! The following note was attached:

"Found your wallet in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Be more careful next time."

Almost everything was still in my wallet. Can you guess what was missing...

That's right...the money. No big deal. I was going to send the $25 to whomever sent it back anyway. It is nice to see that some people will go out of their way for a stranger. This person does not know me but yet took the time to pick the wallet up, finger through it for contact information, take it to the post office and send it back to it's rightful owner. This whole situation has taught me an awful lot about myself and others. When I get home, I will be writing a thank you letter to the very kind and caring person who retruned it.

9 Responses to “The wallet has been returned!”

  1. tinapbeana Says:
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    congratulations!!! glad to hear everything worked out.

  2. budgetmom Says:
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    Yeaaa! See, there really are good people out there! Glad to hear it was only a $25 loss. Did you cancel your cards or just put a hold on them? I would still be careful if you didn't cancel them as people could very easily use your CC#'s to buy on line or over the phone.

  3. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Hooray for happy endings. Smile

    But yes, it most certainly makes for a good life lesson to be prepared with backups.

    Speaking of which, I better set up an appointment for an eye exam right now.

  4. koppur Says:
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    Maybe they used the $ in your wallet to mail it back to you Smile At any rate, glad you got it back. It's nice to see there are still some (mostly) good people left out there in the world.

  5. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
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    Hurray!

  6. pjmama Says:
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    That's great. The same thing happened to me about a year or so ago... Lucky for me, the wallet was returned, but like you my money was gone. Thank goodness it was only $7! Someone saw a person throw the wallet in a trash can and was nice enough to fish it out (talk about good samaritan!) and get a hold of my mother, who's business cards were in there... sheesh.

  7. rduell Says:
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    I'm glad to hear it was returned to you. I assume that the one that found it was not the one that took the money.

  8. Ima saver Says:
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    I have found and returned wallets before. I am pretty certain who ever returned it, did NOT take the money. Someone else probably took the money, was scared to take the credit cards, and just dropped it in the parking lot for someone to find. I hope you know who it was and thank them.

  9. Broken Arrow Says:
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    This reminds of the one time when I returned a day time organizer to someone.

    Whoever it was was grateful, but was extremely secretive! This woman absolutely refused to give out any personal information about her, but did probe me for mine.

    To this day, I wonder who she was, and why the secrecy?

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