Friday, November 19, 2010

Don’t you just love it when you’re made privy to the good in people? I know I do.

While putting the stroller in her car, my daughter placed her wallet, which had been in the top of the stroller, on her bumper. She closed the back hatch and got in to run another errand. Arriving at that destination, she realized that her wallet was missing. That she’d left it on the bumper of her car before driving off. In a panic, she called me, already in route to travel the path she’d taken. Mile after mile, I could hear the anxiety grow in her voice as she failed to come across the missing wallet.

When she arrived at the mall parking lot, I told her to drive the exact path originally taken, both of us believing that the wallet was most likely knocked off the bumper at a speed bump. No luck, the wallet was nowhere to be found. I told my daughter to check in the trashcans, thinking that if someone had found it, they would have wanted the cash, not the wallet itself and might have thrown it away. Still no wallet was found.

Frustrated, my daughter then went to her bank to inform them of the loss. That task completed, she headed home with a heavy heart and upset with herself for having placed the wallet on the bumper to begin with.

Goodness prevailed about an hour later when the doorbell rang. Going to answer it, my daughter was greeted by a charming woman who had found the wallet—at the second location, not in the mall parking lot—and driven to the house after seeing the address on my daughter’s driver’s license.

It was amazing that the woman took the time to return the wallet and that everything was still in it. I love it when things like this happen, for it confirms my faith that people, the majority of them, are good. That if given the chance, they will rise to do the right thing, even if it means going out of their way to do so.