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My renewed faith in the world and facebook
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On Saturday night (or Sunday morning) at approximately 12:40am I was returning home on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) on the subway. Ironically I wasn't at all drunk but I still made a stupid mistake that usually happens when people are under the influence.
This morning I woke up to go to school and was unable to find my wallet so I retraced my steps and realized that I had not seen my wallet since I took a TTC ticket out of it on Saturday night. Immediately my mind began to imagine that it was probably in the hands of a theif because I have generally lost faith in the goodness of most strangers due to the image the media portrays of the city and the world in general.
By the way, my wallet also contained my G1, health card (apparently a bitch to replace), some CA$H money, coupons, gift certificates, and my debit card.
I arrived home today and called the TTC lost & found only to be told that nothing had showed up yet. I reluctantly returned to my room and started checking the usual sites on the internet; facebook being one of them.
When I opened up facebook and checked the new message that I had I was shoked and amazed to see this:
Hay Colin ,
Can ' t tell by your profile picture if it is you but if you lost your wallet drop me a line ( found on the subway )
Damian
I just sent him a message back and I decided to write this on here cause it has definitely cheered me up. I am also reminded of how my friend lost his cellphone the same way a couple of weeks ago and was lucky enough for it to be returned to the TTC lost & found.
I think two things come out of this. I have realized that you definetly cannot judge a book by its cover nor a city by its media (corny i know) and that guy is going to get a hell load of karma coming his way.
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That was really nice of that guy. Good for you that you got (getting) your wallet back!
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thats so cool man. i wish there were more people like that around.
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did he ask you to come to his appartment by yourself at some strange hour of the night?
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that is wicked for that guy. not many people would do it... i found one of those walkie talkie radio things at a ski hill. i was tempted to keep it since i had the same one at home. but i called over it, found the family with the matching one and gave it back
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no but he said the only time he was free would be between the hours of 12am and 2am at his house. haha, no im meeting him where he works at some hotel.
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wow thats awesome...you must have done something good to get that good karma, and that guy is earning his well
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Make sure to give him like 10 bucks for not being an ass and keeping it.
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sounds like this story where my friend and i found some dudes wallet at ceader point with 400$ in it and we searched for the dude and found him, he said we were life savers
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i thought about that but it would kind of defeat the purpose. in an ideal world we should all be that nice but there are just so many people out there that are a bit too selfish for that concept.
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I could see that being a seinfeld episode ad wen you get your wallet back the moneys gunna be gone but you dont wanna be a jerk but you really want your money back no what im getting at
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Myself I wouldnt give theguy money.
But something as gesture maybe chocolates would be approriate.
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I dunno how it would defeat the purpose? I would have still given him 10 bucks just as a nice gesture in return.
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most of the time when theres an id in the wallet people with souls will give it back
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you have the same first name as me
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that was a clever idea to use facebook. inspiring story hansel.
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thats really lucky man, creative thinking on his part too.
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thats so kind of him! what a good guy,
thats great that your getting it back
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i always thought the opposite
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Thats really nice of the guy. Don't give him any money back though. It would just ruin the whole point of the good deed. But a thankyou card and a small gift like chocolates would be very appropriate
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if some dude found my wallet and i had all that shit in there, id give him like $20 just cause he saved you so much work/worrying/time. and to you guys that say dont give him money, wtf? why not he deserves. not gonna lie, if i found a wallet id take the money and then return it to some lost and found or something...
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i would give the dude the money. Its worth it for the pain in the ass it would be to replace all the stuff. If somebody gave me a thank you cards and chocolates i would be scarred.
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ya chocolates is a little weird. I'd throw him 10 bucks. a nice little surprise for doing something good may encourage him to do more things like it
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Legit story, toss the brotha a few bucks and he'll be happy.
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good story...yeah throw him a 10 spot
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im rethinking it, probably 10
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Ya man you should, I mean if he went through all that work to return your wallet, the least you could do is throw him a 10.
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this girl i know got her purse returned to her by some black dude. the fucker stole cash and tampons...
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maybe it wasn't the black dude who stole and he just found it that way.
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tampons do have a high resale value...:/
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i know a guy who has left the same phone three times in a cab here in new york city. hes a bigtime business man and he has all his important business contacts in his phone and all three times someone picked it up and called numbers to find out whose phone it was and he got it back. the other night my roommate came home in a cab, left his phone in the cab so i called it and the cabby called me back from his from when he got home and met my roommate the next day to return his phone to him. now thats some shit because it is so easy to flip electronics like that in the city here.
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