A BIG Thanks

I just want to thank the person 'out there' who found my purse and delivered it (intact) to the Costco store which I had been shopping at yesterday.

Yes, it was one of those days where I was rushing around and the last thing I wanted to do was shop at Costco. The line-ups were long and I only had a few items. Finally, upon completing the shopping list, I went to my car and put my groceries in the trunk and then proceeded to stack the grocery carts together instead of leaving them all askew in the parking lot. (I do that in shopping centres when I see clothes on the floor, hangars out of sequence and often I fold sweaters as well). Without really thinking too much about it, I guess I had placed my purse in the seat of the cart and then pulled the three carts together and promptly walked away and got into my car.

Upon arriving at the next shop about 2 miles away, I parked the car and absentmindedly reached for my purse which of course was NOT there. Oh my gosh! I looked on the floor, in the backseat, got out and looked into the trunk (twice) and in the backseat again and on the floor in the front passenger side...full well knowing (in the back of my mind) that I had left it in the shopping cart at Costco!

I raced back to the store and to the exact location where I had parked. The grocery carts were still there - all three of them, packed nicely together as I had left them. One difference....no purse! My heart raced. As I headed toward the store doors, I offered up this prayer: "Please God, may some honest individual be the one to find my purse and turn it in."  As I stood second in line at the admin office, I spotted an employee talking on the phone. "Oh, that she could be calling my home about my purse" I thought to myself. As the woman in front of me proceeded to the desk, I noticed a brown purse sitting on the counter. I uttered softly under my breath "That's my purse". She turned and looked at me with a question on her face saying "Is that your purse?" to which I replied "YES!"  You cannot imagine how relieved I was! The woman on the phone WAS speaking to my husband and had left a message for me to call the store. She told me that she did not tell him the reason for her call. I guess that meant I could keep this as 'my little secret'!  But you know what? I was so happy to get that purse back (with all my credit cards and money inside) that I felt like screaming it out to the world that there ARE honest people still around! Thank you ' whoever YOU are! God bless you for being honest and turning in my purse. I look forward to 'paying it forward' in whatever way that turns out to be.

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.