Son dropped/lost his wallet yesterday

[bigtree]

...man found it, just brought it to our house. Soft-spoken older gentleman, couldn't make out the accent.

He lost it in a rough neighborhood, and we just drove there this morning looking for it on the ground.

Good people are out there. The wallet and contents could be replaced, but this act of kindness and integrity was priceless. I'll value it forever.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended!

Very good!

[TheProle]

2. Made me smile. Thanks for posting and glad it worked out!

[TommieMommy]

3. Wow that's wonderful

[calimary]

4. Goodness can still be found

just about anywhere you look!

Thanks for adding another bright spot, bigtree! We can all use it, and more besides.

[70sEraVet]

5. That's the problem the trump regime is having .....

There's more good people than Deplorables!

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. Something similar happened to me years ago

I offered the money I had in my wallet as a reward but they refused. They were such good people. I couldn't thank them enough. They're are more good people in this country than people may think. Sometimes its hard to remember.

[Tree Lady]

7. Last trip to New Orleans

I rented a house in the wards just outside of Frenchman St at end. It was a total black neighborhood, everyone was real nice. I wanted see what it felt like as a white person to be only one. Most people sat out on their stoops in the afternoon and evening.

We would walk a few miles to Frenchman and the music. There was a liquor store owned by this nice black man on the corner of Frenchman across the Street from the ward neighborhood. Walking in one day my hubby wanted to buy a beer I saw a wad of cash on the top step. I had no idea whose it was saw no one .

I walked in and handed to him, told him one of his customers must have dropped it. He flung his arms around me and hugged me tight and told me I helped him restore his trust in white people.

For a tiny second I thought about keeping the money then told myself it’s not yours!

That was in 2015 before all this nightmare began.

[HeartsCanHope]

8. May this man's kindness be returned to him many times over!

Nice to be reminded that people still have integrity and decency. Thanks for the post!

[lindalou65]

9. Good People

That's wonderful to hear and you are right, there are good people out there. I had a similar experience at the Portland, Maine airport. I live in Albuquerque where theft is high so leaving a purse or wallet at the airport is likely not to be found. I was at Airport and had just finished going through security and proceeded to sit in the seating area to wait for my flight home. I was early so I had a bit of time to wait. I decided to go to the Women'a room and when I returned, I realized I didn't have my purse! Everything I needed was in there including my passport. So I went over to Security in case I left it there. A very nice young security officer took the time to walk around with me to look for it. As we came by where I had sat earlier, a woman asked if I was looking for a purse. She said it had been turned it in to the Lost & Found so the Officer took me to get it. I did get my purse back and nothing was missing. I thanked the woman and the Security Officer for all their help. Apparently in Portland, Maine, theft is rare from what I understand. Good people!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. K&R

[FemDemERA]

11. Heartwarming to hear. I still believe most people want to do good.

That's been my experience anyway.

[MIButterfly]

12. It's so heartwarming to hear stories like this one, that people are still so decent

and will go out of their way for someone they don't even know. It's such an act of kindness that I know you and your son will never forget.

In contrast to your story: Back when I was still waiting tables, one night I went to the restroom and there, in the stall, was a wallet on the toilet paper holder. I took it up to the bartender and told her that I had found it. A few minutes later, one of my regular customers was thanking me, saying there was $500 in it and trying to give me $5.00, which I politely declined. I related the story to a co-worker and she said "crazy bitch." I thought she was talking about the customer who left $500 in the bathroom, but no, she meant ME, for not taking the money out and throwing the wallet in the garbage!

I was flabbergasted. I never would've even thought about doing that in a million years, but it just rolled right off her tongue, like it was no big deal.

[Xavier Breath]

13. Mid-late 1980s I lost mine at our local mall theater.

There was maybe $10-$12 in it, but it was all there after I collected it from the concession stand. I was more nervous about losing my drivers license than the dough, but I was still glad some nice person turned it in untouched.

[Amaryllis]

14. Once I left my wallet in a gas station restroom about halfway between Seattle and Portland.Someone turned it in and

the manager not only called me and told me, but mailed it back to me!

[Picaro]

15. Discovered this years ago

For various reasons I’ve lost my wallet six times in my life.

Got it back with everything in it five times. This was before Cell phones and people would track me down and find my phone number (remember those phonebook things?) and call me.

Only once did I not get it back and that was when I left it on a doughnut counter in Giant Foods. The girl that waited on me stole it.

I had an ethical choice to make. Make a stink about it and get her fired or just take the $10 loss. I was all of 17 and didn’t have any credit cards. Not sure even existed back then — it was 1971.

I also had hair down to my waist and getting any authority involved back then was a crapshoot.

Didn’t wanna get the girl fired and I didn’t wanna get arrested. I let it go. Odds are I would’ve gone my way because she was a black girl and it was Norfolk Virginia in 1971. Very racist city.

But getting my wallet back all those times taught me that people are for the most part pretty good.

All part of my liberal outlook.

[electric_blue68]

16. Wonderful to hear! There Are still more good people than bad in this world.

[Aussie105]

17. Older folk tend to be like that.

That shouldn't be there, it is valuable, it needs to be returned to the owner.

If you can't find the owner, the local police station is the place to visit.

[spanone]

18. K&R

[leftstreet]

19. DURec

[Permanut]

20. Thanks for posting, Bigtree..

Stories like this are very welcome these days.

[usonian]

21. Not to brag, but ...

One day, I was driving away from a thrift store and stopped at a traffic light right outside the store.
I thought I saw something on the ground.
It was a wallet with some woman's out of state ID, all her credit cards and $500 in cash.
But no address within 1000 miles.

I took it to the thrift store thinking she might have stopped there. No, but I trusted them to help find her.

They eventually did, by contacting her bank. I took a chance and won.

Otherwise, I've managed to find the owner of an original ipod, and a couple of iphones, with a little help from my daughter.

At some point, earlier or later, I did buy some speakers there for $50 a pair, whose latest edition (admittedly some 45 years after introduction) go for $3600 a pair.

I use the speakers every day. Only problem is like yesterday, when I ran to the living room to see who dropped the kettle drum. No, it was the speakers, sounding like the orchestra and singers were right there.

Contact me if you can use 14 totes worth of books, by the way. I thought of making "little free libraries" for them, but that would be full time work for months.

Cheers to all the good Samaritans out there.