You need to go buy a butt load of lottery tickets! You're one lucky dude!
Zapata, TX is a dangerous place these days. That doesn't mean there aren't still good people there, it's just the way it is. Though I have in the past, I won't go just wandering around Zapata for kicks and giggles! Lot'sa folks "snow bird" down there. We topped out at 12°F here today. In Zapata, it was up over 80°F!
Stopped in San Ignacio TX to look for birds and take photos, an hour later I’m on the river at Salineno and I get a text “Sir please call us we found your wallet in San Ignacio along the highway”.
I had set it down on the back bumper sorting out stuff, drove off leaving it there. I backtrack to 30 miles to Zapata, wait for the guy at McDonalds.
A working pickup pulls up, forty-something Hispanic driving, a maybe five year old girl grinning a wide toothy grin in the passenger seat. He lowers the window she hands me the wallet.
“You know how we got your number?” he said with a laugh. We were in Ace Hardware and my wife had them look it up from your hunting license”.
Wouldn’t take the $50 cash I had in the wallet. “No problem, esta bueno” he said, and drove off. Just like that, two minutes tops.
Ya, I know I’m a retard, ya I know this follows hard upon the keys episode. Could be I’m getting Presidential.
I’m only posting this to let folks know how I have found the people to be over the years here in South Texas.
There are good people everywhere, but the horrible ones get all the press and cause 10 times more grief than their numbers would suggest.
I found a wallet a few years ago in Baltimore turned it over to the police. I asked them.if they were trustworthy or not, wallet had at least 3k cash in it with all of the ID cards ,insurance, charge cards, work ID. I hope they did the right thing and contacted the owner.
Went into a lowes in our area and when walking up to go in there laid a wallet with a wad of cash in it, it wouldn't even stay shut, took it in and gave it to costumer service and the lady said wow that's a load of cash, I don't know if it ever made it way back to the person
in general, most of your border meskins are good folks, even more fed up with the illegals than we are. wanna get some of them folks mad, ask them about paying a slimeball immigration attorney 10k bucks to read them their court notices and waiting years to become legal, only to have this current crop of wets come over and get all this handed to them. those border folks are pretty prideful, and most hard working folks. doesnt suprise me you got it back
"The Warden" has lost a few things - the most memorable being a bank coin purse she keeps credit cards, DL, and some cash in. It fell out of her pocket when we stopped on the side of the road for a "nature call". The next day, our nephew, who worked for NMDOT, was driving down I-25, and his partner said "STOP, I see something. Partner got out, picked it up, and said "I guess we need to find Joy Shubert." Nephew said "That's my auntie!" One call, and we got it back that evening.
She's had multiple things find their way back home, and can't remember anything that didn't!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
Glad to hear you got it back, Mike. And that there are still a few honest folks around.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I found a wallet a few years ago in Baltimore turned it over to the police. I asked them.if they were trustworthy or not, wallet had at least 3k cash in it with all of the ID cards ,insurance, charge cards, work ID. I hope they did the right thing and contacted the owner.
Very low odds that one ever found it’s way back to it’s owner.
Stopped in San Ignacio TX to look for birds and take photos, an hour later I’m on the river at Salineno and I get a text “Sir please call us we found your wallet in San Ignacio along the highway”.
I had set it down on the back bumper sorting out stuff, drove off leaving it there. I backtrack to 30 miles to Zapata, wait for the guy at McDonalds.
A working pickup pulls up, forty-something Hispanic driving, a maybe five year old girl grinning a wide toothy grin in the passenger seat. He lowers the window she hands me the wallet.
“You know how we got your number?” he said with a laugh. We were in Ace Hardware and my wife had them look it up from your hunting license”.
Wouldn’t take the $50 cash I had in the wallet. “No problem, esta bueno” he said, and drove off. Just like that, two minutes tops.
Ya, I know I’m a retard, ya I know this follows hard upon the keys episode. Could be I’m getting Presidential.
I’m only posting this to let folks know how I have found the people to be over the years here in South Texas.
Different outcome, but sure makes one think of this (AWESOME) song:
You can no more tell someone how to do something you've never done, than you can come back from somewhere you've never been...
Stopped in San Ignacio TX to look for birds and take photos, an hour later I’m on the river at Salineno and I get a text “Sir please call us we found your wallet in San Ignacio along the highway”.
I had set it down on the back bumper sorting out stuff, drove off leaving it there. I backtrack to 30 miles to Zapata, wait for the guy at McDonalds.
A working pickup pulls up, forty-something Hispanic driving, a maybe five year old girl grinning a wide toothy grin in the passenger seat. He lowers the window she hands me the wallet.
“You know how we got your number?” he said with a laugh. We were in Ace Hardware and my wife had them look it up from your hunting license”.
Wouldn’t take the $50 cash I had in the wallet. “No problem, esta bueno” he said, and drove off. Just like that, two minutes tops.
Ya, I know I’m a retard, ya I know this follows hard upon the keys episode. Could be I’m getting Presidential.
I’m only posting this to let folks know how I have found the people to be over the years here in South Texas.
There are good people everywhere, but the horrible ones get all the press and cause 10 times more grief than their numbers would suggest.
I read this post then had to check the title to see if it was a bicycle post.
