Son dropped/lost his wallet yesterday

[Picaro]

15. Discovered this years ago

For various reasons I’ve lost my wallet six times in my life.

Got it back with everything in it five times. This was before Cell phones and people would track me down and find my phone number (remember those phonebook things?) and call me.

Only once did I not get it back and that was when I left it on a doughnut counter in Giant Foods. The girl that waited on me stole it.

I had an ethical choice to make. Make a stink about it and get her fired or just take the $10 loss. I was all of 17 and didn’t have any credit cards. Not sure even existed back then — it was 1971.

I also had hair down to my waist and getting any authority involved back then was a crapshoot.

Didn’t wanna get the girl fired and I didn’t wanna get arrested. I let it go. Odds are I would’ve gone my way because she was a black girl and it was Norfolk Virginia in 1971. Very racist city.

But getting my wallet back all those times taught me that people are for the most part pretty good.

All part of my liberal outlook.