update on the purse

So after posting on my blog last night I head upstairs and did a few things then the doorbell rings (thinking about this now....the timing all worked out because you can't hear the doorbell when you are downstairs). anyway, there is a man at the door and he asks me if I am Jessica. Then he shows me my purse!!!!! He was maybe in his early 50's and he came in and chatted with me for a while. He has 2 daughters and one is my age and something like this happened to her where she lost her purse. ANyway, he'd seen it at walmart and didn't want to return it to customer service. the reason being, I have a clear pouch that I put my tips in at work and I had JUST put it in my purse! like seriously, after leaving work I went to the Running room before walmart and put the tips in before the running room. my purse was unzipped and so he saw the money in there and thought it was someone young working a job like that to have all that cash. He took it home, found my number in the phone book and had tried to call it for over 2 hours to tell me not to worry. Unfortuanatley, we have a different number than the phonebook now and so he couldn't get a hold of me. So he used the address and came to my house! EVERYTHING was in there! EVERYTHING!!! I tried to pay him but he wouldn't accept anything! Finally, I got him to take $10 for the gas to find my house (and he's from Beaumont! which is a 15 min drive away). I just feel so so lucky and happy that my purse is back. I was such a mess yesterday thinking of all the things in my purse. I had already cancelled all my credit cards, but I still had hope it would come back! He wanted a hug for a reward and he was so touched that I had a daughter (who by the way ran up to him and gave him a big "HI!") and that I was a waitress supporting my husband). As he left, I said, you just made my whole week and he replied, you just made my whole week too!! THere are wonderful people in this world!!

While this was happening, Brian had gone out to Costco to get his Ereader fixed and when I closed the door he came out from behind a corner at the back door and had flowers for me! He had heard all that had happened with the guy (his name is Les) and he had bought me flowers while he was out for my bad day. What a guy. He made my whole week too!

HOORAY FOR HAPPY ENDINGS!!