Sometimes people are awesome

I went to a movie tonight with my son. 3/4 of the way through the movie, I get a text from my wife asking me if I had lost my wallet. I reach into my pocket- no wallet.

I go up to the front desk and ask if anyone had turned in a wallet. No luck.

I call my wife and ask her how she knew. It was a long story, and I wasn't really following the details. She says she will text me more info.

I get a text from my wife, and it's the number of a young lady. Total stranger- I'll call her Randy.

Apparently I pulled a bonehead maneuver and left my wallet in the Men's room. Randy's boyfriend found it. So, during their movie, Randy looks me up on FaceBook. I don't have a FaceBook account, but my wife does. Randy sees that she is friends with the mother of one of her friends, Chuck.

Randy calls Chuck, who is 3 hrs away in Atlanta, and asks him if he knows me. Chuck calls his mother in Florida, who calls my wife. That's when I got the text.

I called Randy, and she was still at the theatre, watching a different movie. She tells me which theatre she is in, and I meet her and her boyfriend (who happens to be a police sergeant). They didn't want to leave the wallet with the staff because it had cash in it.

They handed it back to me- 100% intact, including about $250 cash. Driver's license, SS card, Military security clearance, health cards, credit cards, everything. Wouldn't take a thing except a handshake.

So yeah, sometimes people are awesome.

Sometimes they are.

Lucky son of a ...

Dumb son of a...

You got ultra lucky after that brain fade.

I left my wallet with $200 in it on top of a gas pump once. The employee inside happened to find it when she was emptying the trash cans. I realized it was missing and went back. She wouldn't take any money for it either. I thanked her about a hundred times and it still felt insufficient.

I'm curious what you were doing in the mens' room that required taking your wallet out of your pocket ;)

My wallet fell out of my jacket while riding my motorcycle on a dirt road a few years ago. The entire contents were scattered across the road. I got a call from a guy a few hours later who said that his wife found it. I didn't even know that it was gone. I met her at the pool club where her kid was taking swimming lessons. I didn't even know that the place existed. Everything was placed neatly back into my wallet, it was all there. She wouldn't take anything for her trouble. We ended up joining the pool club.

Take your SS card out of your wallet - store it in a safer place - they recommend you don't carry it.

A handwritten letter to this persons manager or CEO of the company goes a long way.

Datsun310Guy wrote: Take your SS card out of your wallet - store it in a safer place - they recommend you don't carry it.

I don't usually carry it. Had to do some HR stuff this week.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: A handwritten letter to this persons manager or CEO of the company goes a long way.

Not possible. Total stranger. No idea where she works.

SVreX wrote:

Datsun310Guy wrote: Take your SS card out of your wallet - store it in a safer place - they recommend you don't carry it.

I don't usually carry it. Had to do some HR stuff this week.

BTW- side note:

Homeland Security has changed the rules for employers again. Used to be employers needed only to see identification adequate to fill out an I-9. Now, as I understand it, they need to keep copies of it, and they need to be bound in a separate and readily viewed binder separate from personnel files.

My HR director keeps this in a 3 ring binder on top of her file cabinet. I pointed out how easy it would be for someone to grab the binder when she was in the bathroom. She said its pretty hard to meet the Homeland Security guidelines any other way (and the fines are pretty stiff). She keeps her office locked...

Sounds like more governmental over reach to me. (Or poor governmental communication that leads to corporate mishandling of information).

We are probably all in similar situations. Worth checking...

SVreX wrote:

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: A handwritten letter to this persons manager or CEO of the company goes a long way.

Not possible. Total stranger. No idea where she works.

yet she found you...

In reply to OHSCrifle:

Correct. But she DID have my driver's license, full name, and ALL my identifying info. (and was sitting next to a LEO to lend a hand)

I have only her 1st name. Certainly have no idea where she works.

Those i9 requirements are best met using the i9 web site.

In reply to SVreX:

First name, and phone number.

You can call and ask. Or ask for address and send flowers. Or bake cookies. Or buy them a grm subscription and invite them to the challenge.

One of the reasons I'll be dumping Republic wireless soon as they don't carry the phone I want. I basically want to stop carrying debit cards etc even cash and start using a payment app for everything. Now if the gov't will just let me put my drivers license and registrations on there.

Good luck on that wallet ,some people are awesome.

In my experience, most people are pretty awesome, except for my ex-wife.