Yeah, it's nice to be nice. Boring story coming up, beware... nice things happen...
Going to work one morning and passed a bus-stop I don't use but do walk past. Noticed a handbag left at the stop, nobody around. Took it to work (NOT on my shoulder!) and when I had time checked out the information. Managed to get in touch with the owner by email --- they were on the way home (I worked near the airport, and they had obviously been heading back there). Arranged to send it on one of our weekly trucks that go to Holland (where they were from, obviously) and long story short, returned to owner.
No big deal, I thought: nice to do something nice and good that it worked out.
Truck came back with a big mad plant for me, looked quite expensive, thank you note. My mam (passed away now sadly) loved it and the plant lasted for years and years, always a symbol to me that sometimes you do nice things for nothing but you get something back, not because you were looking for anything but just because people think you deserve it.
Plus I certainly showed Ireland in a good light to our Dutch tourist friends...
