Reunion

Well, I needn’t have been as worried as I was. By Monday morning, I had resigned myself to never seeing the wallet again and would start cancelling my loyalty cards, as I had done my bank cards on Saturday, plus buy a wallet with an elastic cord that could be attached to a belt hook or something. And then I got a call from a bus driver (sorry, coach driver, I was once ticked off by one on that) who had seen a notice I had put up at the campus shuttle coach stop (Medway end) appealing for information with my phone number present. He said his colleague had handed in a wallet and I was given the reference number.


I assume that as the coach driver in question finished his shift at 1a.m. when he got back to the depot, the office was locked up. So he found the wallet and took it home with him (the campus-shuttle does not work weekends), to hand it in Monday morning. So when the duty manager on Saturday searched the coach, of course, he found nothing.

I was going to call Kingsferry one last time, to make a request that I search the coach myself, as no action had been taken with the cards, but was pre-empted by this very pleasant news, which happened in part through my pro-activeness at placing the notice (my phone number was not in the wallet and who knows if the connection with Saturday would have been made at the office). I bought the driver a bottle of Merlot (though not too pricey) in expression of my appreciation at his diligence. I walked down to the depot and on quoting the reference number I was reunited with everything, wallet, cards, photos.

I will learn from this now in possession again. Already, I have removed all non-essential cards (and obviously cancelled cards) from the wallet as Altaa advised previously long ago. The wallet is a lot slimmer and looks a little sparse as compared to before, but I really don’t need, for example, my Gillingham library card with me, always and everywhere. Also, I have put my student ID card into one of those holders with a neck cord that delegates at conferences wear, so that I don’t have to consistently retrieve and replace my wallet – it sounds simple but minimising risk will minimise accidents on my part.  I know myself.