Apparently, my purse managed to sneak away from me at the grocery store last night without my knowledge. This morning I get a call from Citibank, asking me for my card. Sure thing, I says, and go down to the (locked) garage to retreive said pcard from said purse. Low and Behold - No Purse! “We know” says Citibank - this nice lady called and said she found your purse and therefore we are closing down this card, blah, blah, blah…
She then gave me the nice person’s phone number and address, whom I quickly called. I went on over the the nice lady’s place of employment and picked up my belongings. On the way over, I was thinking about a reward, as I knew I had at least $20 and change in there. I was hoping there was a bit more and finally decided to give her whatever cash I had for being such a nice lady.
I get there, meet the nice lady, she hands me my purse and I notice, while I am chattering away about how lucky I am and how nice she is, that she refuses to look at me. Hmmm. I open my purse to hand her some cash, and whaddayaknow, no cash. Again, I thank her profusely and go on about my merry way.
Hmmmm, I am thinking as I drive home. Hmmm.
I get home and start going through my purse, feeling slightly violated that someone else has been pawing through my belongings.
Now, nice lady said that the first thing she though of when she found it was to call the credit card company and tell them. Why? My checkbook was in there, my phone number is one the checks. My license is in there, my address is not but 2 miles from the nice lady’s home and I am listed. My address book is in there, my name and address are in there, too. AND, they found it in the parking lot (I think it more likely in a shopping cart), why didn’t they turn it in to the store? How did they know I wasn’t in the store looking for it?
Hmmm. I them start looking for the cash, which I keep in two different places. I am positive that there was a dollar, folded up in the grocery store reciept from last night. It’s gone, as is all the change that was in there and some random keys that I didn’t know what to do with as I didn’t know what they went to.
I can only assume (yeah, I know), that this nice lady and/or her husband (he’s the one who actually found it) helped themselves to the little bit of cash I had on hand before bothering to call and report it as found.
Which really pisses me off. Again, I am assuming, so I can’t get too mad because I don’t know who to accuse in this. The nice lady could be completely innocent. But somehow, I don’t think so.
I am not sending her a reward, after all.