In this day and age, with the current economic and political scenario around us, it is nice to come across kindness and the wife and I were on the receiving end of a nice gesture yesterday.

At about 10am, I received a call on my cell phone from a number I did not recognize. I answered the call and it was from a person who had found some cards and stuff of my wife in a wallet, on the road. He said he picked up what he could and gave me his contact number and such to go and pick it up.

I called the wife and she connected with him and went and picked the stuff up from him from his office. But we later realized that he was riding a bicycle on the way to his office and saw the stuff lying by the roadside on an expressway! He stopped, collected the stuff (it was thrown all over the place) and put it together and took it with him. He could not find any contact information for the wife, but fortunately my business card or something was in there so he was able to get in touch with me.

Then, he also gave us the exact location where he found the stuff, so we could go look for anything else that he may have missed picking up. It was unbelievable that someone would do such a nice thing.

On the damage side, there was not much that she could have lost. All her credit cards and her driver’s licence was with her in a different wallet. Some of the stuff that was in the lost wallet was things like Blockbuster card, airline frequent flier cards, and such. The most important thing that seems to be missing is the California State ID. She is going to go to the DMV and get her state ID duplicate ordered.

But now, I have to set up monitoring on my credit report with the various agencies so that we can pick up any fraud that may occur in the future.

But I don’t want to take anything away from the positivity of this post - about the nice gentleman from the Mountain View office who went out of his way to pick up the stuff, and called us and gave it to us.

Thank you, sir.