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Originally Posted by Trollheart
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...  |
Reminds me of a story that I read once on a forum I post on.
This bloke found a wallet with s
hit loads of cash in different currencies plus a bunch of cards, diplomatic and government ID, documents etc, searched it and found a number, phoned it and a voice answered "you've got my wallet"
Dropped it off for him (he had left it on the roof of his car then driven off) and he thanked this guy and that was that.
1 week later - Belgian chocolates, A bottle of single malt, A bottle of champagne and a bouquet of flowers was delivered to his house!
He hadn't even given him his address...
