Found a wallet at the end of my driveway, crazy story

[BTLowry]

Good job getting it back to him

I found a wallet in the middle of a side street intersection one morning (mid morning)
Called 1411 (been a while) and asked for the number of the name on the DL. Operator said no listing so I explained what I was trying to do and she gave me the listed number for a different person with the same last name that lived at that address. Called and left a message and wasn't long my phone was ringing.
Seems the owner was visiting friends and had stepped out of his truck for something at that intersection and lost it
He tried to give me all the cash he had in it but I just told him to pay it forward

[GroceryGetter]

I'm glad it all worked out.

A couple years I left my wallet at the self checkout at H-E-B not too far from my house. I got down the road and realized I left it and turned around. I went to the business center and there it was after a good citizen returned it with everything inside.
That same afternoon I go out to check the mail and there's a handwritten note from my mailman stating that a USPS bigwig was the one that found my wallet at the checkout earlier that day. He got my address from my DL and contacted my local USPS then got a hold of my mailman to let me know it had been returned to the business center. I have yet to cuss USPS since then.

[tpack]

I put my billfold on the trunk of our car after getting groceries once. My wife had to go somewhere after unloading the groceries and it was still on the trunk. I was sitting in my living room a few hours later when my phone rang. It was my boss from work. He asked me if I had lost my billfold, and I said I don`t think so. I asked him why and he said that his nephew saw a billfold in the middle of the highway and stopped and picked it up. It had my company credit card with the company name on it. He called him and asked him if he knew me and dropped my billfold by his house. Everything was still in it when I went to retrieve it.

[EliteDriver]

Crazy stories!

[Gunnyart]

When I was a young kid I saw a dollar bill laying in the road and picked it up. And then another and another. I found 24 one dollar bills in all… just about the time I was sure I got them all someone drove up and asked if I had seen an envelope with 24 dollars in it? I didn’t feel so lucky anymore.

[Rustled Again]

I was graduating from HS in 1970 and several of us decided to drive to Pensacola, Florida to camp on the beach to surf and snorkel. We lived in TX. We had a big time for about a month and headed home. We stopped somewhere in Mississippi for gas and I used the pay phone to call my parents to let them know I was still alive. I inadvertently left my wallet on the ledge of the phone booth.

We made it home and about a week later I received my wallet via the mail with only the postage removed from it. I was astounded. Good people everywhere!

[twosixteens]

Great stories. I found a wallet in the Chicago airport parking lot 1988-89. I was in a hurry so I took it with me. When I got home I called a friend who lived in Chicago he looked up the guys phone number (phone book). I called the guy got an address and mailed him his wallet. He called a week or so later wanted to know where his F’n money was. I don’t know how much money was in it but getting family pictures drivers license and a nice wallet back wasn’t enough for him.

[S-3 Ranch]

My sister owned a air BnB off ceazar Chavez in Austin ( lots of shady people ) and asked me to help,watch her kids play in the backyard, well we found 4-5 different wallets and 2 purses laying in the yard, along with about 20-30 used needles
the police said just pitch them in the garbage because they were probably already reported & APD doesn’t respond to theft cases

[Dusty Britches]

Aliens!

[brokeno]

I was building a brick fireplace that took exactly 240 bricks. I studied the plans and added up all the bricks and had the perfect amount of bricks. I was crawling around on my behind and my wallet was hurting my butt so I laid it on the ground next to me. My neighbors dog came over and he’s always picking up stuff and messing with stuff. I got to the end of me building my fireplace and I’m one brick short. I looked around and my wallet was missing too. I saw my neighbors dog in his back yard and whistled and called him over and here he came running and guess what he had in his mouth. My lost brick.

[91cavgt]

I was building a brick fireplace that took exactly 240 bricks. I studied the plans and added up all the bricks and had the perfect amount of bricks. I was crawling around on my behind and my wallet was hurting my butt so I laid it on the ground next to me. My neighbors dog came over and he’s always picking up stuff and messing with stuff. I got to the end of me building my fireplace and I’m one brick short. I looked around and my wallet was missing too. I saw my neighbors dog in his back yard and whistled and called him over and here he came running and guess what he had in his mouth. My lost brick.

I’ve got an uncle who has a blue healer named Bullet that does that. He will walk off with bolts and tools mostly. So anytime I’m over there helping him work on something, we have to make a conscious effort not to put ANYTHING down, because inevitably, Bullet will take off with it.

[TheWidowMaker]

I had sold a boat to one of my buddies and he'd always pay me every month $500 cash until he didn't owe me anything else. We stopped at a restaurant for dinner after being at the lake all day and he had just given me that months $500 cash payment. So I put it in my wallet. I got up from the table to go to the restroom and while I was in there it fell out of my pocket and I didn't realize it. I was back home by the time I realized it and called the restaurant and they found it in the trashcan in the restroom with $0 in it. I don't carry wallets in swim trunks anymore and I'm a lot more aware when carrying more then a few bucks.

[PYBUCK]

I lost my wallet at my hunting lease once. I looked everywhere but to no avail. About a month later I got a call from a guy in Big Lake Texas that said he found my wallet in the bottom of a cattle guard going into the lease. I suppose I dropped it in there when I got out of the truck to open the gate. I drove over there, and he gave it to me will all the credit cards and $460 still in it. I tried to give him the money for being honest, but he refused. He did finally take $40 for him and his wife to go out an eat. There are still some good folks in the world

[Monark]

I have found two wallets in my life. Both one day after the other last year. First in a shopping cart in the Walmart parking lot & the next in the Home Depot parking lot. Both had a LOT of cash, ID's , credit cards. Turned both over to local Sheriff Dept. Hoping they got back to the owners.