Monday morning, mom was at the dentist and had a panaramic X-ray thing done. The dental tech took off her necklaces for the x-ray and then put em back on afterwards. She went to work, then to the mall, and noticed an emerald & diamond pendant on a gold chain missing. Spensive thang. She traced her steps back at work and looked all around the shops and couldn’t find it.
I told her to call the dentist and ask if it was there, but she said she knew it was there at one point at work. So I told her to go to the department store at the mall and look in the lost and found.. She said, “You think someone would turn something like that in?” I said, “I don’t know, it can’t hurt to try. I’d turn it in, I wouldn’t know what to do with the thing. There’s still two or three honest people left in the world.”
She goes to the mall a couple more times this week to walk and shop, but doesn’t stop by the customer service desk at the department store. We go to the store tonight to find an Xmas present for my sister, and I make her go to the customer service desk and ask. She asks the lady if any one has turned in an emerald necklace, lady says, “Well, someone did turn in a gold chain, it’s back there on the counter.” Mom asks to see it, thinking that getting the chain back is better than nothing. Well, the pendant was there too. She says to the lady, “Now that I have this back, do you want to know how much it cost? $850.” And it was just sitting on the counter back there.
Turns out that a security guard found it on the floor out in the mall and brought it back to the desk. Mom was elated. The employee called security and let em know that the necklace was claimed and passed along mom’s gratitude.
So, see, there are some honest people left in the world. Nice to know.
