[Andy's Auto Repair]

My 19 year old daughter runs my office. By run my office I mean she answers the phone, forges checks to parts vendors, and keeps the lizardsm Prarie Dogs, and Cane Corso fed. She does other things like filling the tanks of my trucks, keeps me in Marlboros, and gets me lunch every day.

Getting tired of Chik-Fil-A, I sent her to Publix to get me a leathery yet delicious sub sammich from the deli. I give her my check card and of course, my pIN has been in her memory since birth.

She makes it back in just over an hour screaming more explitavesthan I thought she knew. She lost her wallet. And my check card. And her Andy's Auto Amex, and her check card, and her license, and her debit card, and her MACpro club card, crap, and $80 cash.

So, twelve full hours on the phone getting everything cancelled and resent, it would seem good as soon as my replacement card gets here, all would be normal.

So yesterday, the wife and me are fighting. The kind of fighting that only knocking the bottom out of that gal will fix. You guys that have been married for a few decades and are still into your chicks know exactly what I am talking about. I get home to viscious malicious stares from her like I was sent by the Devil himself, she asks what this USPS oversize envelope is on the dining room table,

I said, "Look evil women, you got the mail, not me". Our addy, no name, no return addy. I pop it open. Sure as *****, Baby Girls wallet

Minus the $80

 

[Andy69]

maybe the money was already gone when they found it.

if I found a wallet, I'd do the same, including leaving my address off, so that I wouldn't get blamed for taking the missing money.

 

[Alan F]

Shouldn't the title be: My faith in humanity affirmed?

 

[69SHEVL]

Could have been worse.

Could have gotten your smokes or sandwich.

 

[Hi-po SS 454]

If there is a next time I doubt that you would be so lucky.

 

[chuckd71]

Not sure I understand the bad part of getting the wallet back. They kept $80? Seems like a cheap reward, or at least it might have been if you'd gotten it back sooner and could have avoided the hassle of getting new cards.
Just as an aside, if you go to the seafood counter at Publix they will steam and season your salmon or whatever else for you. Pretty good alternative to subs and chicken.

 

[Kirby10]

Not sure I understand the bad part of getting the wallet back. They kept $80? Seems like a cheap reward,

Seriously? So someone taking something that doesn't belong to them is ok? Nice.
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[joeyv69ragtop]

So you got the wallet back minus the $$ but in the meantime some unknown person has all your CC numbers, etc. Peace of mind to have gotten them all cancelled/reissued etc. Glad to hear she got the wallet back, more glad to hear you're on top of the cancellations etc. Just b/c someone sent the wallet back with all the cards doesn't mean they don't intend to use that info for themselves.

 

[crazydavey]

they probably recognized the name and knew the cards were max'd..

glad baby girl got the wallet back....:thumbsup:

 

[Georgia69]

I lost my wallet three years ago the day before leaving for Chevellabration. Without a drivers license, ATM card, and credit card, you can't do ANYTHING. Check into a hotel, buy gas, NOTHING. You can't get cash a check nor get cash from the ATM either. My parents went with me that year, and I was very fortunate that they paid for everything that weekend so I could enjoy the show.

I have business cards in my wallet, and based on desparate hope I checked my work voice mail from my cell phone while at the park. It turns out the day before leaving for Goodlettsville I had left my wallet on the hood of my truck before heading off to the dump with a load of hedge clippings. A gentlemen had found my wallet in the middle of a busy intersection, found my business card in it, and left me a voice message. After speaking with him, he offered to drop the wallet off to my wife at my house because he drives by there every day on his way to work. I told her to give him the $40 or so that was in the wallet, but he refused.

The jackasses in the world cause so much grief that we forget most people are just good honest people.

 

[1966_L78]

The jackasses in the world cause so much grief that we forget most people are just good honest people.

:yes:



Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt most criminals would bother sending the wallet/cards back.

I also can't picture someone that would take your cash as being someone to bother returning it... Thats going to take some time and money to mail back a wallet. If you are honest enough to go through the effort, I don't think you'd take the cash...

Don't get me wrong, I am very pessimistic, and don't trust too many people.

 

[LeoP]

Your daughter lost 80 bucks, you did the right thing with the credit cards, someone returned the wallet and helped themselves to a reward. Deal with it, someone did pretty much the right thing.

 

[Beaux]

faith in humanity l

I sold my faith in humanity on ebay years and years ago to some poor soul that thought it was actually still worth something. I had no use for it as it had been sitting on my garage floor for the last 20 years collecting dust. Sold it right after I got home from the funeral services for common sense.

Buy your daughter a purse for goodness sakes. Men lose wallets. Women are supposed to have their purses stolen when they do things like leave them in shopping carts at walmart and walk away or go to the gym, leave their purse on the front seat of an unlocked car, etc.

80 bucks aint squat......send the fed reserve an email and ask them to print ya some.

 

[cv67]

So the wife was mad cause of the unmarked package wondering who was sending ya something?

Cant tell em about your girlfriends they get mad!! PO boxes buddy! lol

 

[Big Block Dave]

10+ years ago I lost a wallet with about $400 in it, at the mall. No I dont usually carry that kind of cash, but I intended to spend that money on gifts at that mall.

I would have been happy to just get the wallet back, and really would have been thrilled to see the money again. None of the above were ever returned to me.

Id say you did pretty good.

 

[66sc]

Word count.

Your wife and you should create business with instructions about staying hot for each other.

 

[Chris R]

Reminds me of my niece, true story. Around 2 or 3 years ago now when she was about 15 or 16, she had her wallet stolen out of the family van when they were all at some outdoor event near where they live in a small little Podunk town in the middle of nowhere central Minnesota. Thieves are in the small towns too I guess.

Around a year later, one of our other relatives happened to be in a boat fishing on one of the lakes in Central MN as well, probably wasn't all that far from where the wallet was stolen. He went to pull his line up and re-cast again and what do you know, there hooked on the hook was my nieces damn wallet with her ID and some other cards and keepsakes in it. I don't know how much cash she had in it, but it was was gone anyways.

 

[busterwivell]

A friend of mine learned a lesson the hard way........left his wallet in his 4x4 pickup at work. Got a call on his cell phone from someone who said they found his wallet in the intersection. He went out to find his truck was gone. Never recovered.......probably south of the border before the call even got made.

 

[Dan1979]

I found a guys wallet on the road about 6 months ago in the middle of a busy road..Looked in it and got his address and delivered it to his house.. Yes with all $110 intact.. Left my # for him to call and he did to say thanks and offered to tint all my windows for free beings that's his business.. Told him no but thanks.. Ended up showing him where his wallet was when I found it as a few things must have fell out.. He found the other $60 and his bank cards that must have blown to the side of the road..

 

[Frankenstein]

This thread kind of an interesting study in people's take on things.Remember the old saying that an optimist see's a half a glass of water as half full and pessimist see's it half empty.The wallet is returned with everything minus the money so is it half empty or half full.