The good people
“ There are more good people than bad people ” is a quote from author Tucker Elliot. I experienced evidence of that one morning last week, when I set my coffee cup on the trunk of my car to get my jacket out of the back seat. I then picked up my coffee cup and drove to the gym.
Arriving at the gym, I realized I was missing my wallet. I assumed I had left it at home but was troubled to not find it upon returning there. Had I possibly laid it on the trunk with my coffee cup earlier and not picked it up again? Upon sharing my concern with my wife, she told me she’d heard an incessant ringing of the doorbell and knocking at the door shortly after I had left the house. She got to the door only to see someone driving away. Could that someone have found my wallet on the street and was attempting to return it?
Hoping against hope, I checked the mailbox and found the wallet placed way in the back — with its contents intact. A huge thank-you to the anonymous “good person” who changed my feelings of despair into gratitude.