Thank You

Consider yourself thanked. This is for anyone who has ever returned any object they found, or turned in an object to a Lost & Found. You probably never received a "thank you." So here it is.

I lost my glasses at Wal-mart. I knew that the glasses had to be somewhere in the store. I had just loaded up my trunk with diapers and wipes and laundry detergent and paper towels, and other exciting items. I had put my son in his seat first, as it was raining. And not one of those pleasant rains, a cold, dreary and biting rain, that eats away at your bones.

As I sat down in the driver's seat, I reached on top of my head. No glasses. I looked in my purse. I found an empty eyeglass case. Well, so much for carrying that thing around, I thought. I checked my pockets, and actually hoped I was sitting on them.

At this point, my boy was due to eat lunch, and I was not about to lug him back into the store, through the rain. So I drove home. I found a beat up pair of prescription sunglasses that had a huge scratch on them. They were way too dark for such a dismal day.

Luckily, I had to make a return at Wal-mart the next day.

"Did anyone turn in a pair of glasses?" I asked the clerk.

"What did they look like?" she asked.

"Kind of like these," I said, "round, with pinkish gold frames." I had another old pair of glasses, which was one prescription off of my current glasses. The old glasses also fit all wrong.

She quickly found my glasses. They were in one piece, unscratched, and neatly folded. I could have sworn that somebody cleaned them.

I wanted to thank someone. Of course, I thanked the clerk.

But what about that mysterious stranger who found my glasses and took the time to return them? I wanted to thank that person. Since it was unlikely I would ever know who to thank, it got me thinking. How many people out there have returned something and never been thanked? This was my opportunity to give them their overdue thank you.

So, to anyone, anywhere who has ever taken a few minutes out of their busy day to tell someone their lights are on, or to let them know they dropped something, or to anyone who has ever returned an item, valuable or otherwise, that did not belong to them, this one is for you,