I dunno. You tell me:
Last month at work I found what appeared to be the contents of someone's wallet. There were three Home Depot store credit cards, a Social Security card, a Costco Executive card, a voter registration card and various folded pieces of paper and a couple of business cards.
I had the person's name and address, thanks to the voter registration card, so I plopped the wad into a padded envelope and mailed it across the lake to the address indicated with a note about how I came to possess it.
Two days later, like bad curry in the night, the envelope came back. The person in question no longer lives at the address indicated.
OK. I have a business card in the same name so I'll just email the business...Well, let's do the Google first.
The Google tells me nothing about the person, the Executive Director, at all. Zilch. The company, though, is in financial straights and has a lot of vendors angry at it on account of they've been stiffed. The newspapers tells me this but they never mention the Executive Director, just the CEO.
Cool. Or not cool, but interesting.
I send an email to the company and get nothing back. Nada. Zip. Zed.
Fine. I've tried very hard to be a good person but it just ain't working out. I'll send the Social Security card back to SocSec and...hmmm. Let's check on those Home Depot store credit cards.
Wowwee! They're still good and have a total of $140 on them!
Is this cosmic payback for my good intentions? Or will anything I purchase with the cards burst into flames, fly apart at high speeds, come loose during fine work, fold up suddenly or cause skin irritation?
Help me out here.
Comments (10)
Posted by Mokihana | June 19, 2007 10:59 PM
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Posted by Aunt Edna | June 20, 2007 10:50 AM
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Posted by Pinks | June 21, 2007 4:49 PM
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Posted by LWHoll | June 21, 2007 8:09 PM
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Well. Looking through the contents again (there was no actual wallet), I found an auto insurance card with either the wife or mother's name on it.
She's listed in the phone directory at a different address (the last name is unique, I know it's her) so the stuff will go in yet another envelope and be mailed tomorrow morning.
Posted by Panzo | June 22, 2007 5:39 AM
Posted on June 22, 2007 05:39
Posted by Huemr | June 22, 2007 9:12 AM
Posted on June 22, 2007 09:12
I'm not trying to be greedy but I could use that $140 in Home Despot store credit.
If the stuff comes back this time, there's no bad mana as I've really tried to get the stuff back to someone who might have claim to it.
There's also the matter of the guy's Social Security card. I wouldn't want that to be floating around in the Mortally Wounded Letter office.
Posted by Panzo | June 22, 2007 12:00 PM
Posted on June 22, 2007 12:00