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Douglas Carpenter

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Tue Jul 23, 2013, 03:10 AM Jul 2013

I lost my wallet today with more than $800 and all my important stuff inside.

I don't normally carry that amount of cash on me - of course. But my 2002 Camry is down because the head gaskets are blown and a little home Filipino shop is fixing it and I can only pay them in cash which I happened to have on me at the time. When I got home from work in the AM I started to look everywhere. But wallet was no where to be found. Of course at first I thought I must have absent mindedly misplaced it somewhere - but still it was no where to be found. All I could think of is that maybe, just maybe it could have fallen out of my pocket while I was in a Taxi coming home from work. Fortunately, I have that Taxi drivers cell phone number stored on my cell phone - so after a few minutes more of panicking and looking everywhere for a third or forth time - I gave him a call. He said that he was inside his house right at that moment - but he would go and check right away - So for another five minutes or so I went back to my panicking. Then my cell phone rang - and the Taxi driver - a Bangladeshi gentleman named Manik - announced - "Oh, Sir, I found it and I will bring it back to you right away." I have NOT felt so relieved in a long, long time. So about 10 minutes later he pulled up into my driveway where I was waiting for him and he graciously handed me my wallet - back with the $800 and all my credit cards, drivers license and all kinds of other important stuff completely intact. I immediately offered to give him a very big tip - to which he immediately refused. But recalling that he is a Muslim and this is Ramadan I thought perhaps he will accept some gratuity if I put a little bit of a religious holiday spin on it. So, I said to him, "Manik this is a special Ramadan gift for your family." Well, that seemed to have worked and he graciously and gratefully accepted the $60.00 I handed him. Well, that was one nerve wracking hour or so I had this AM.

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I lost my wallet today with more than $800 and all my important stuff inside. (Original Post) Douglas Carpenter Jul 2013 OP
You are very lucky! Lil Missy Jul 2013 #1
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