Real life: I left my purse in a shopping cart at the Safeway in Prunedale once. The person who found it turned it in right away, and I got it back 10 minutes later.
At a recent NY comicon, a person I was with lost his backpack. It was soon returned, but only after the police had arived and we had shown them the thieves on the video as we were recording as part of an interview. They had returned the backpack after the video was posted on the con’s website’s daily video posts.
…and if you can follow this post, you are as pilastered as I am right now!
I never watch TV or read the paper, and I only glance through the headlines on my way to my daily emails. Unless it directly impacts my daily life or that of my friends and loved ones, I figure I’m better off not knowing the news. There isn’t usually much I can do about it anyway, and it will just depress me. And as you point out, there is still a lot of good in the world, if we just focus on it instead.
Mary… Gah! I guess tables at Starbucks are coveted.
Jack & Kona… a good deal of all news is sensational and fear-invoking… and advertising has but one goal.
Joe & EofO… these are happy endings… Joe- your story isn’t a happy one except for the ending. EofO… it’s nice to know that there are nice folks out there… still, yah?
I have returned several lost purses I’ve found, but always with a slight reluctance: I’m a 6’2″ guy who wears black and boots, and have “BAD GUY” written all over me. I fear that picking up a purse I find might lead some on-lookers to believe that I’m a thief or something.
…but it’s never stopped me so far. Score one for the good boys.
Every now and then there are attempts made of launching newscasts and magazines featuring only good news stories. They don’t last long. Sensationalism Sells.
Mary… They may have taken your table, but at least they left you your purse.
brig… Nice contrast to…misery loves company.
I lost a wallet once when I was a kid during an afterdark firecracker war (rival teams throwing firecrackers wrapped in modelling clay that resemble granades and taking prisoners of war) on Monterey’s Del Monte beach (the part with the ginormous sand dunes). It was mailed back to me less its cash. Glad I did not have any credit cards at the time.
My brother lost his wallet at an Apple store while he was waiting in line with his BFF for whatever new phone was released last year. I called the store, and not only had someone turned it in, but EVERYTHING was stil in it…including all his cash.
Dada… you keep being a bad-guy-looking good guy. We need more good guys in this world!
Stick… your youth activities scare me. You do still have all your fingers, yes? Jude put down her backpack at a park bench on a trail a couple years ago. An hour later, she realized it was missing… went back, and someone had rifled thru it, found her wallet, extricated the dough and left the wallet and pack there. Sigh… I suppose it coulda been worse.
Dawn… I do believe an Apple store would have a pretty good camera-spy-on-customers system….it’d be better to just turn in said wallet than be identified as a pilferer.
Real life: I left my purse in a shopping cart at the Safeway in Prunedale once. The person who found it turned it in right away, and I got it back 10 minutes later.
At a recent NY comicon, a person I was with lost his backpack. It was soon returned, but only after the police had arived and we had shown them the thieves on the video as we were recording as part of an interview. They had returned the backpack after the video was posted on the con’s website’s daily video posts.
…and if you can follow this post, you are as pilastered as I am right now!
I never watch TV or read the paper, and I only glance through the headlines on my way to my daily emails. Unless it directly impacts my daily life or that of my friends and loved ones, I figure I’m better off not knowing the news. There isn’t usually much I can do about it anyway, and it will just depress me. And as you point out, there is still a lot of good in the world, if we just focus on it instead.
Ugh, headlines. Pumping fear into the people to get them to spend money. There’s ‘good guys’ all around, glad there was one for Randie.
I ran after someone to give her purse back from a Starbucks.
And came back to find that although I had put down my bag on the table, someone else had taken the table in the minutes. sigh.
Mary… Gah! I guess tables at Starbucks are coveted.
Jack & Kona… a good deal of all news is sensational and fear-invoking… and advertising has but one goal.
Joe & EofO… these are happy endings… Joe- your story isn’t a happy one except for the ending. EofO… it’s nice to know that there are nice folks out there… still, yah?
I have returned several lost purses I’ve found, but always with a slight reluctance: I’m a 6’2″ guy who wears black and boots, and have “BAD GUY” written all over me. I fear that picking up a purse I find might lead some on-lookers to believe that I’m a thief or something.
…but it’s never stopped me so far. Score one for the good boys.
Every now and then there are attempts made of launching newscasts and magazines featuring only good news stories. They don’t last long. Sensationalism Sells.
Mary… They may have taken your table, but at least they left you your purse.
brig… Nice contrast to…misery loves company.
I lost a wallet once when I was a kid during an afterdark firecracker war (rival teams throwing firecrackers wrapped in modelling clay that resemble granades and taking prisoners of war) on Monterey’s Del Monte beach (the part with the ginormous sand dunes). It was mailed back to me less its cash. Glad I did not have any credit cards at the time.
My brother lost his wallet at an Apple store while he was waiting in line with his BFF for whatever new phone was released last year. I called the store, and not only had someone turned it in, but EVERYTHING was stil in it…including all his cash.
Dada… you keep being a bad-guy-looking good guy. We need more good guys in this world!
Stick… your youth activities scare me. You do still have all your fingers, yes? Jude put down her backpack at a park bench on a trail a couple years ago. An hour later, she realized it was missing… went back, and someone had rifled thru it, found her wallet, extricated the dough and left the wallet and pack there. Sigh… I suppose it coulda been worse.
Dawn… I do believe an Apple store would have a pretty good camera-spy-on-customers system….it’d be better to just turn in said wallet than be identified as a pilferer.