Lost My Handbag Tonight

[slinky.kate]

I left it in the toilet in tescos,when I got to the cash desk realised what I done,the cvashier told me the cleaner in the toilet handed it in,i was very lucky,i will send him a thank you card and a wee something for his honesty,

[shoota]

Hope it didn't have the family jewels in it Kate.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh Kate, what a relief you must have felt to get it back, well done that man!!

[slinky.kate]

it was a bag my son bought me(leather)cost him £180.i also had a £90 camera in it and all my cards etc.i will need to try and be more careful.but what a kind man eh?

[gness]

How lucky, Kate....glad you got it back....horrible feeling isn't it......x

[Butterbun]

And what a lucky woman .. You.

[shoota]

I'd be distraught if I lost my family jewels....

[Buenchico]

I used to work in a medium-sized railway station, where we booked in about 5000 items of lost property per year (and had to chase up many thousands more that were booked in at other stations on the network). Many people were amazed that our staff were so honest (and were kind enough to express their thanks) but we still got a few who regarded it as OUR fault that they'd lost something and expected us to hold a mainline train in the station for ages, so that they could hunt for an item that they might have left on it earlier in the day!

[Buenchico]

Possibly the most relieved customers I encountered when I told them that I'd found their property:

1. A Metropolitan Police Officer who'd left his wallet (complete with his warrant card and ID for the anti-terrorist squad) on a train ; and

2. A woman who'd got 14 credit/debit card in her purse, together with an unencrypted list of the PIN codes for all of them!

[shoota]

What a liability that warrant card was, especially if you were a naturist.....

[Buenchico]

On the other side of things . . .

I recently left £30 'cashback' at an an Asda self-service checkout. I was pleasantly surprised when I phoned up to ask about it and was told that it had been handed in.

[Buenchico]

I'm a naturist, Shoota ;-)

[shoota]

We could form a clique B..... ;-)

[Buenchico]

Another railway lost property story:

A station further along the line phoned to say that a customer had left his briefcase on a train, and asked if we could look for it when the train arrived at our station. I said that we'd try but reminded them that we couldn't delay the train and (given that it was already a few minutes late) we'd be trying to get it away within just a few seconds after arrival.

I radioed a message to a colleague, asking him to jump onto coach G and take a quick look around for an unclaimed briefcase on the luggage rack on the right-hand-side of that coach (but again stressing that there must be no delay to the train). He did so, found a briefcase that matched the description of the missing one and quickly asked everyone nearby if anyone owned it. Nobody said 'Yes', so he grabbed it and got off the train as quickly as he could.

A few minutes later the train's conductor phoned me to say that he'd got a very irate passenger who'd just had his briefcase nicked by my colleague while he'd been in the buffet car!

Oops!!!

[jennyjoan]

Buenchico/Chris - I work voluntarily in a Credit Union - have done for 35 years.

We issue loans and sometimes the people who get loans (sorry can't get the right word for them).

After the person gets a loan they come into us in (cash dispenser) (if we have it (cash) we give it to them). We are not a BANK.

However, it is amazing that they get a loan so easy and yet they are ready to kill us because we don't have the cash. We tell them they have to go to the bank to get their cheque issued. Still they're ready to kill us.

[Buenchico]

I understand, Conne. I don't go looking for gratitude but some people seem determined to provide exactly the opposite.

A prime example that comes to mind is when a 14-year-old pupil (being chased by his 'friends' with a can of 'fart spray') tried to pen the front door of the school of by pushing it, instead of pulling it, resulting him putting his arm through a pane of glass and severing an artery. As the school's senior first aider, I assisted a colleague who got there first (and who was also a registered nurse) bind his wound and save his life. Did his parents thank us? No. They tried to find a way to sue us!

[Buenchico]

^^^Typo!
'pen' = 'open'

[PankySmooch]

I left my iPhone on a railway station bench a few weeks ago in Hackney, I only realised once I got on the train and it pulled away.
My friend who was with me rang it twice but it went straight to voicemail, he said someone's probably seen it and kept it, when we got off at the next stop to catch the next train back I rang it again and a chap answered it and said he found it on the bench and will hand it in to the ticket office.

Got the train back and the phone was indeed with the ticket office, but that sickening feeling when you realise you've lost something to the relief when you've got it back is something else.

[janbee]

You were lucky Kate. It's a nice gesture to say thank you with a card and a wee pressie. Honesty is something we used to take for granted but now, it's more unique and therefore should be rewarded. xx

[mikey4444]

Nice to see that there are still some honest people in the world Kate !

Though I wonder if it would have been handed in if a customer rather than a cleaner had seen it first ?

[slinky.kate]

I realise how lucky I was,what should I give him in a 'wee pressie'he is middle aged.