Yay! Glad it worked out as I hoped/thought it would. 
Thanks for posting to let us know. When we hear so much about bad things happening in the world, it’s good to be reminded every now and then that most people are basically decent.
nice ending to this story, amateur_barbarian … and thanks for sharing.
now, make sure the woman replaces the iphone as well as the password and phone#. and she needs to proactively check her credit-history … every three to six months for the next five years. sometimes it’s the personal info that is more valuable to a thief than, say, money or fancy purse.
Well, now her flight home was cancelled, turning home-by-dinner into a long, long evening of driving to Boston, then Hartford (car) and back to home… :smack:
News media report bad stuff. Woman loses purse/handbag; item is handed in and returned, rarely gets a mention.
My wife put her handbag on the roof of her car as she got in and drove off with it still there. Before she got home, a lady knocked on our door; she had opened the bag, found the address in a diary and returned it before my wife knew it was missing. I sent the story to our local paper but they never published it.
One Dublin woman didn’t take her husband’s advice:
…I did I forgot my suede gloves on the seat behind that I never got after some robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the Irish times lost in the ladies lavatory D B C Dame street finder return to Mrs Marion Bloom…
[“D B C”–Dublin Baking Company]