bigbenaugust 

I was on my honeymoon with my new wife. Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Absolutely idyllic. We had hopped the SunBus to head north to Palm Cove. We get there and jump out. 30 seconds later, we're heading into a restaurant for lunch and I realize my wallet had fallen out of my swim trunks. (see also Slim's description above) The bus was already a couple of blocks away, so I couldn't even make a run for it. After a few minutes of abject panic, I realize the next bus will be here in an hour, so we ate lunch on my wife's card and waited for the next bus to show up. When it did and it wasn't the same one we were on, we flagged it and told him that my wallet was on the last bus that came through. He radioed the driver and told us that bus/driver would be back later in the afternoon. We waited patiently on the beach (oh, so difficult that was ) and sure enough the bus and driver came back, we flagged him, and he had my wallet, absolutely unmolested. I'll bet he had more A$ in the till on the bus than I did in my wallet.

Yay for Australians.

SlimRider

Yes, I've learned not to panic, no matter what...

However, I've also learned that there's good and bad in every ethnic group.

It's most probably best to expect nothing and be surprised by the good things that people do. Otherwise, you'd spend much of your life disappointed.

- Slim

BSB

A year or so ago I found a cell phone in the middle of the MUP while biking to work. I put it in a jersey pocket to deal with when I got to work. I rolled up to a red light, and there was a young woman on a bike looking through her basket, then digging through her backpack, then the basket again, then back to the backpack, getting more and more frantic. She was dressed all in pink; the bike was pink; the cell phone was pink; hmmmm.... so I pulled out the phone and held it out. I haven't seen anyone's face light up like that in a while! I suspect that's the easiest return I'll ever have, and she probably had the phone back within two or three minutes of losing it.

thorsteno

I currently have a driver's license in my drawer that I found last Friday. Googled to no avail. Just need to drop it off at the DMV. Also found a motorcycle license plate a few months ago with the registration taped to it. Found the owner pretty quick. It rattled off a Harely. I hate those noisy things. He offered me $20 and I declined. Should have asked him to be courteous to cyclists in return.

fuzz2050

I like phones, it's usually as simple as calling the person labeled 'mom' in the address book. I found an iPhone once, sadly without any parental figures so I posted to the persons facebook. Their status became 'This person seems to have lost their phone, if anyone of their friends wants to do them a favor and pick it up, please stop by my office'

1nterceptor

Saga ends..........

So the wallet's owner called me today saying mail his stuff
to the address on the driver's license. He said to take the
postage from his cash and for me to take a bit more so that
lunch was on him. He should have told me this before I
mailed his wallet Monday


Ernest,

I received the package today. I apologize for not being able to return your call until this morning but I was on the move from Friday until then.

I am amazed and extremely grateful to you for your integrity and extraordinary efforts to return my wallet to me. I never expected to see it again.

I was visiting a friend and we chose to ride the Westside Greenway (1st time). It probably fell out of my pocket when I was fixing the jammed chain on his bike.

Thank you.

Take care,

Richard