Sister, Can You Spare $2?

Are you ready to read a very long and convoluted story? I’ll try my best at relaying this as simply I can!

My husband walks, in our neighborhood, picking up trash. In the summer, it’s daily. In the winter, it’s just on the weekends. He has his special trash picker and several grocery sacks for the trash. We live by a public grade school, a baseball field, tennis courts, a public golf course with the golf course bookended by 2 parks. So, there can be a lot of trash.

He has found many interesting items in the year he has regularly picked up trash. Over this year, he has found $1.95 in change. But yesterday, he found a change purse in the middle of the road. The little purse also contained a driver’s license and a credit card. When he came home, I Googled the address on the driver’s license and found the phone number. I called her and she was thrilled! She just realized she couldn’t find her change purse. The last time she saw it was the night before. She lived close by so she drove over to pick it up. She was very pleasant and thanked us!

Now on to today’s story.

We were leaving our local home improvement center around 11:00 AM. Lying on the ground, by the passenger side of our car, was a credit card. So, my husband decided to take it into the store and have them handle it. As I was waiting for him, a young man came up to my car, and asked for money. He told me that he needed to get his son’s inhaler and was $4 short on the cost of the prescription. What was I to do? Usually, when someone comes up for money, I walk away and say I don’t have anything to give. But, I did have $2 and I handed it to him. He said, “Bless You!”

Today’s mail came with a surprise. The woman who owned the change purse sent us a thank you note. In this note was a gift certificate from a local pizza joint! She wrote a lovely note and was grateful that we returned her items.

That was dinner! Yippee! Now here comes the best part. When I paid for the meal, they accidentally charged me for delivery and I didn’t see that until I had walked back to my car. So when I walked back up to the cashier and showed them that mistake, they refunded my money.

It was two dollars!