Barbasiewiczfan
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I Found a Wallet
I have found three wallets in my life all with varying results. The first one was just outside Mobile, AL. A friend and I were in a gas station after midnight licking our wounds from just running my Indian motorcycle off the road. A family of poor white folks pulled in and unloaded a pack of wild children all running for the bathroom. I talked to the dad as he filled his tank. After a while he reached for his wallet and started to panic and scream that he couldn’t find it. His wife said she remembered that at the last gas station he had set it on the roof of the car. He broke down and cried right then and there. On a hunch I walked over to the old Chevy and ran my hand backwards across the roof of the car to try to simulate the path the wallet would have taken if it was left on the roof of the car. My hand traveled down the rear window, across the trunk lid and onto the bumper where the wallet sat lodged in the bumper. I handed it to the man who could not have been more grateful and thankful.
The second was at a Cupid’s hot dog stand in Van Nuys, CA. I was sitting in my car eating a hot dog when a black guy got out of his car to go and get some food. As he walked by he accidentally dropped his wallet in the parking lot. He didn’t notice this and walked off. Rather than see someone take it, I took it and waited for the man to come back. I thought he would notice it missing when he went to pay for his food but he didn’t. He then casually walked back to his car with a bag of food. I looked at the driver’s license in the wallet and called out his name, let’s say Carl. He looked up at me and proclaimed that he was not Carl. He got up in my face and wanted to know why I had called him Carl. I explained that I had just found Carl’s wallet and thought it may be him. He backed down. He apologized and said he had just come from the Van Nuys Court and felt I may be an investigator from the court. He handed me a 5 and thanked me several times.
The third was in a movie theatre at Universal Studios where we were watching a screening of The Lost World. It was just for people who had worked on the movie. They had sent us a beautiful invitation to see the movie. After the movie ended I started picking up the invitations that some people had left in the theatre. There under a seat was a big fat wallet with cash overflowing. There was still a crowd of people working their way out the exit. I looked at the driver’s license and yelled out the guy’s name. I was answered with a loud WHAT ? I yelled, you lost your wallet and I have it. The guy came over to me and without a word snatched it out of my hand. He glared at me and butted his chest into mine. He raised his fist in anger and stormed out of the theatre. I am slow to anger but feel I should have said or done something. What, I don’t know…..Bruce
