Lost & found- affirmations of goodness in many people

[shootingstar]

I lost a (fake) pearl dropping earring at work yesterday. Even checked across 2 building floors, washrooms..
It was turned into Security office! This is a building with over 1,000 employees plus public wandering about.

My faith in goodness of some people continues because:
*4 months ago: I left pkg. by a bank machine in a shopping mall. I reported it in person at mall security office. 3 wks. later, Someone delivered an envelope of work documents to my work building 5 blocks away.

Other incidents over past 25 yrs.:

*Left a purse hanging on hook in washroom cubicle. In a shopping mall. I retrieved purse from security staff 1 hr. later. (Yea, had wallet, etc.)
*Left a SLR Nikon camera on subway train. 5 min. getting off subway train, I realized I left it behind. I retrieved camera 20 min. later from subway authorities' lost and found office.
*Left purse on back of shopping mall food court chair. I retrieved purse half hr. later from security desk.
*Left wallet on ferry to Nantucket Island. I was in a panic. I was in a foreign country without my wallet. I reported to ferry office. Wallet mailed to me 3 wks. later to Canada.

Security staff can be valuable...anywhere.

I have no interest in carrying a hand/shoulder purse. For me it must be knapsack type.

[Adventure Girl]

I lost a diamond earring in an aerobics class. (I found the back!!). I filed an insurance claim and before I received the check, someone at the gym found the earring and turned it in to the front desk. I was shocked to get it back! I never found out who found it and returned it!

My husband was on a cross-country motorcycle trip. He left his wallet at a gas station in Colorado. The lady who found it searched through the wallet and called the only phone number she found in it. The number belonged to our insurance agent. The insurance agent contacted me. I contacted my husband. He contacted the good samaritan and retrieved his wallet. The woman would not accept ANY reward. I really don't know what would have happened if he did not get his wallet back. It had all is money, credit cards, ATM and ID! He was 1500 miles from home!!

[Catrin]

11 years ago when I moved to Indianapolis, I left my purse in a shopping cart at Kmart. I didn't notice it for about 20 minutes, went back and of course I didn't find it. Headed home kicking my butt...and opened my apartment door to find it sitting there in the middle of the floor! Someone found it, looked up my address and took it to my apartment manager. The apartment manager put it in my apartment and nothing was missing! The manager checked with me the next day to make certain that nothing was missing, it was all pretty amazing and it happened so fast! I DID go to a small thing at church before going home, so probably 2 hours had passed between losing it and arriving home.

[Kathi]

My SO found a money clip in a ski area parking lot. It contained a drivers license, Amex credit card and $200 cash. Because of the cash we were reluctant to turn it into lost and found so we took it to the local police dept. They called Amex, got the guys telephone no. and called him. He was on his way to the airport with no ID. He had looked for it but gave up. He was able to turn around to get it and still make his flight. The guy made a point of calling and thanking my SO.

On a different note a local shop that I buy my skis and boots from sent me an email and told me how much they appreciate me continuing to do business with them. I live in ski country and could get better deals from many other shops but I know the owners and their service is so good. Last year I bought a pair of skis from them. I paid for the skis but somehow the charges on my credit card got reversed and I ended up owing $0 for the skis. They probably would have caught it sooner or later but I told them immediately about the reversal. I couldn't "cheat" them out of their money.

[VeganBikeChick]

It's so nice to hear about the goodness of others. I lost my wallet last week - pretty sure I left it at a restaurant I picked up takeout from. Have called several times with no luck, even put up an ad on Craigslist with no response. When I called my bank to report my card lost, there hadn't been any fraudulent activity, so I just keep praying that some good soul will find it. In the meantime, it sure has been a pain getting replacements of everything!!

[shootingstar]

I would have visited the restaurant in person to make the query with a piece of paper/business card in hand. Have you tried at least reporting it to the police? You never know.. Make sure you do this. The police aren't looking at craiglist (much).

Catrin, that's cool.
Adventurecycling, impressive. A diamond earring. Now, I would not be good with quite expensive jewellery.

Oh yea, more stories:

*My partner left behind his pannier full of some clothes, etc. in a parking lot. We were finishing a group bike ride. He forget to check on the other side of the car that was giving us a car lift with bikes, belongings. Then 30 km. later, he realized his pannier wasn't there. They drove back to parking lot but it was gone.

Dearie received a phone call a day later. A woman with her child when shopping, picked up the pannier.

So dearie went from Vancouver (cycling), took a 2 hr. ferry ride over to Vancouver Island (where we did our group ride) and biked, then got the pannier back from her. He biked over 120 km. that day.

[eofelis]

Years ago we were down the street at the Rite Aid store with our bikes. My bf must have left his wallet on the top of his pannier rack and rode off. When we later discovered it was missing we called Rite Aid. They had it. Someone had picked it up and brought it into the store until it's owner could be found.

A few years ago I was riding the Colorado National Monument route here while Ride the Rockies was in town and they were riding it also. Lots of riders. I spotted a credit card and drivers license laying in the road. It belonged to someone from California. I picked it up and brought to the RtR officials when I got into town. Hope they got it back to the guy! I assume the rider had stashed it in his jersey pocket and it fell out when he was rummaging around in there while riding along.

The next week I was riding Bicycle Tour of Colorado (for reals) and again found someone's credit card along the route. Hope that got back to the owner.

I always put all my little pocket items into a small nylon stuff sack and put that in my jersey pocket.