Reply to: So shines a good deed in a weary world

[RichardCranium]

In the 1980s, when at college, I dropped my wallet in a park in Germany with about £120 in it and my Student Union card, all my contacts' phone numbers, my donor card, my parent's details clearly as next of kin and my provisional licence in it.

The remainder of the two weeks was pretty piss-poor.

[suityou01]

I once dropped some notes of mine that contained detailed instructions of how to successfully perform cold fusion under laboratory conditions. Not only did the person that found them not use them to become a successful billionaire/nobel peace prize winner and steal my thunder, but they also posted them back to me, as a business card was in the envelope along with the documents.

I did not even notice I had lost them.

[minestrone]

I once dropped about 2 months unclaimed signed timesheets in the station, never even noticed. A couple of days later a letter arrived for me at client co with them in it and a small note. A contractor who used to work there found them and recognised what they were.

[NickFitz]

my wallet is an unsual rip proof, waterproof air mail envelope style wallet

I've got the dot matrix one bearing digits from the decimal expansion of pi

[OwlHoot]

In the '70s I had a summer job weeding baby fir trees at a plantation in the Scottish Highlands, miles from the nearest village let alone town.

One day after cycling back to my tent I found I had lost £20, which was quite a lot in those days.

A month later, I was cycling down the same track and spotted a piece of paper fluttering in the breeze.

Turned out to be the £20 note that had fallen out of my pocket.

Not a reflection of anyone's honesty, because I don't think a soul had passed that way for weeks. But at least the sheep munching away nearby were considerate enough not to have guzzled it.

[sasguru]

True heartwarming story

In the early 90s I once lost a wallet on the tube on my way to work with a substantial amount of money in it.
Around 9.30 in the morning I got a call from reception saying I had a courier delivery.
Apparently some bloke/bird had found my wallet, found several of my business cards inside (was a permie that that time), and paid for a courier to have it sent to me at work. All anonymous.

I hadn't even noticed my wallet was gone.

[blacjac]

That looks just like the one I got off the market for £1.50.....

[minestrone]

The wallet

[RichardCranium]

£150 wallet !!!! how the **** does a wallet ever cost 150notes?

my wallet is an unsual rip proof, waterproof air mail envelope style wallet

It's $15. It appears you overpaid by about £143.

[KentPhilip]

I once found a wallet containing 450 quid in cash outside a pub.

I kept it.


Noooo I mean I got the pub to put a note in the pub to ask if anyone had lost it.
Got a call to claim it. Verified that it was genuine by a check on the other contents, and posted it back to them. Minus 50 quid for my trouble (i.e. recorded postage cost and 20 minutes spent in a queue at the post office to send it)

Aren't I good

[chef]

£150 wallet !!!! how the **** does a wallet ever cost 150notes?

my wallet is an unsual rip proof, waterproof air mail envelope style wallet

It's great as everyone at first glance thinks Im so poor I hold all my money in an envelope, once, an old women in the post office saw it and showed me that she also kept all her stuff in an envelope too, hers was a real airmail envelope

[OwlHoot]

.. Lord knows the assorted Jeremiahs here need the occasional reminder that the world isn't as bad a place as they like to gloat over it being

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow

Hmm, I think those Jeremiahs might have a point

[NickFitz]

Sometimes we need to remember that there are a very many decent people in the population and they are not all Daily Mail type villains.

So you're suggesting that some of the "very many decent people in the population" are Daily Mail type villains?

Seriously though, congratulations on getting your stuff back, and for posting about it here

Lord knows the assorted Jeremiahs here need the occasional reminder that the world isn't as bad a place as they like to gloat over it being

[PRC1964]

When I was about 7 I found a wallet in our street. It had about £20 in it which was much more cash than I'd ever had my paws on.

Being good, I told my Mum and she looked through it and found it belonged to a neighbour. So we headed over there and returned it.

The stingy old git didn't even say thanks.

I wish I'd kept it.

[Bagpuss]

A friend left her bag at the station the other week, Ipod, £50 cash,cards, some expensive perfume, and other semi valuable stuff.

Handed into a police station untouched. Mind you this was not London