"My Karma ran over your dogma."- Anonymous
This one goes in the "true, but hard to believe" file. We were at West Marine this morning picking up bottom paint and a few other items when we noticed a black pouch on the floor by the checkout counter. I picked it up and told the girl at the register "It looks like somebody dropped their pouch, if there's any money in there it's mine!" I flipped it open and there was a wad of $100's!!! About 150 of them!! No I.D, nothing else.
My name's not Earl, but I know when Karma is testing me, and we gave the pouch over to the manager to put in the safe while we tried to track down who lost the pouch. The most likely customer was a German guy who had just bought a dinghy, but the store didn't have any contact info for him, just a vague idea that he was leaving soon on a boat he just bought, and he may be at a local marina. We drove over to the marina where they thought he may be, and sure enough two guys were there blowing up a new West Marine inflatable dinghy. I asked, "hey, do either of you guys own a black pouch with a Dodge logo on it?"
"Yes" one fellow replied as he patted his jacket pocket. Then he got a horrified look on his face!
Turns out it was his cruising kitty for the next 6 months as they were preparing to sail to the Caribbean, and they were just moving out of a hotel and on to the boat today. Needless to say, he was incredibly grateful, gave us a generous reward, and will probably be telling the story as much as us!!!
That will make a Merry Christmas, hope you are both well! Love and Peace for us all, HO HO HO!
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