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Some decent people left in the world!

I was heading into Leeds today to do my exams, and I called at Greggs to get some breakfast only to go in my pocket and find that my purse was no longer there, I'd obviously not zipped it up enough. So I get all stressed out and teary because I had no money, already quite stressed with exams and retraced my footsteps a bit and was no where to be seen....

Was getting worked up over how I could cancel my cards when I had no numbers on me, no time due to exams etc when my phone rung, and it was a nice man from the Yorkshire Building Society. He'd found my purse on the street and when he had looked what was in it to see if he could find out an address or something, he saw my Yorkshire Building Society cash card, and therefore pulled all my details up and rung me to say he had left it at the branch for me to collect.

Most people would have just took the purse, spent the money that was in it and tried to use the cards to buy numerous things on the internet!
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  • *Jellie*
    *Jellie* Posts: 3,018 Forumite
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    What a lovely story!
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  • sparky0107
    sparky0107 Posts: 3,496 Forumite
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    Nice to know some still exist. Just had some troll using the name iamlegend (in their own mind), throw a load of very nasty abuse at a newbie looking for help.

    Glad you got your purse back & hope you done well in your exams hun
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  • poorbabe
    poorbabe Posts: 900 Forumite
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    Good story for the day.

    There really are good people in the world. A chunk of them are on here
    :j
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  • thank you for restoring my faith in the human race! i feel all fluffy and warm! today i broke down on a back road, so had to sit on the verge and wait for aa and about 15 cars passed by me and only one stopped to ask me if i was ok and if they could help!:mad: annoyed me as i am a mum so would usually have my baby with me so would have been stuck there in blistering heat.
  • poppyg_2
    poppyg_2 Posts: 322 Forumite
    A story to cheer us all up :)
    Money doesn't make you happy so I'm skint but cheerful :beer:
  • andan
    andan Posts: 2,110 Forumite
    Great feel good factor story, that guy was really nice. I think there are a lot of nice people out there, we just here too many of the bad stories.
    :j Live on £4500, £2531/£4500:T 101 in 1001 (52/101):j:beer::j


  • doodledo_2
    doodledo_2 Posts: 4,676 Forumite
    Awwww what a lovely story and what a nice man.:T
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  • bringmeshoes
    bringmeshoes Posts: 2,792 Forumite
    i always seem to find people's purses & mobile phones in work ( i work in a large call centre) a few months ago i found £5 by the cash machine and handed it in to security, people asked why i didn't keep it, i told them it may be somebody's last £5 and if it was me i would like to think somebody would do that for me
    The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about - Oscar Wilde:beer:
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  • Lorne
    Lorne Posts: 770 Forumite
    Wow, excellent story. I hope that you've been just as lucky with your exams!
    Thanks for the advice Martin! :money:
    Member no. 920 - Proud to be dealing with our debts
  • IWantToBeFree_2
    IWantToBeFree_2 Posts: 1,831 Forumite
    Exams are nothing to do with luck, just good revision!!
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