Posted on 06/10/2010 7:34:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Housekeeper finds $6,000 and gets a $100 reward
Need a sign that there is still some good left in the world? Look no further than Jeanne Mydil.
The cleaning woman at the Miami International Airport Hotel was honored Thursday for returning $6,000 in cash that she found in a hotel nightstand after the guests had checked out.
What makes the honest act even more remarkable is Mydil's husband died just a week before and she was struggling to figure out how to pay for his burial.
But Mydil had a feeling the money was more important to someone else than it might be for her, even in the dire situation. She was right.
It was left behind by a group of Texas missionaries who was taking it to Mydil's native country of Haiti to help with earthquake relief work.
The hotel tracked the group down and gave it back. In turn, the Texas group gave Mydil $100.
The hotel named her Employee of the Month for May and have set up a fund for people to donate to help Mydil pay for her husband's funeral costs. If you would like to donate, call Miami International Airport at 305-876-7000.
God will bless this woman, maybe not in this life, but the next. Wow, she’s quite a woman.
Wow! God bless her, and bring her 6,000-fold the reward for her virtue!
It’s wonderful, but if she had fled with the money, they would have caught her before she could give an Obama cheer.
Was it stole money?
Fair enough; but she did return the money, and in this day and age, every smidgeon of virtue should be cherished.
Give the money to the maid. $100? That's a cheap ass tip.
Screw the missionaries, how much are they spending on hotels and airfare to take the money to Haiti?
I hate self appointed do gooders. They're all narcissists out to make themselves look and feel good. The ultimate hypocrites. It's usually about them not the people they say they're trying to "help".
Project much?
Great story; the hundred bucks ‘reward’ bothers me just a bit, though.
BTW, if you are ever in Las Vegas, have breakfast at the Egg & I (or EggWorks) restaurant. Very good breakfast. That is, if you are ever in Las Vegas.
One thing about Las Vegas is that it is very flat. And it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. I think that is a very unique thing about Las Vegas.
Do you know why it was still there? almost every room in Vegas has security cameras in them
it takes a group of missionaries to carry 6,000 dollars to haiti??????The Haitian government recently asked that food not be sent to the country because it was destroying the local farming community.....why buy it from a farmer when some American will send it to you free!!They need technology far more than they need money. Rebulid their buildings properly and not just stack a bunch of concrete block on top of each other. I think the missionaries should have looked around Dade county Florida and perhaps they would have found a poor person or two.....or maybe a poor parish . Their money would have been better spent doing so.
Aren’t you both being a bit harsh on missionaries to Haiti?
C’mon Haiti is a dump—not like an island paradise they are headed to. Don’t be so harsh——and what have you done to help the poor? Don’t judge or trash those who do!
Aren’t you both being a bit harsh on missionaries to Haiti?
C’mon Haiti is a dump—not like an island paradise they are headed to. Don’t be so harsh——and what have you done to help the poor? Don’t judge or trash those who do!
no, I,m not being harsh, our parish sends a group over there every so often to a sister parish somewhere in the mountains. ..I do plenty to help the poor, even once gave a poor family a house.....a nice house....they lost it to the tax people...irresponsibility is common among the “poor”. Haiti is not necessarily an island paradise, but it could be, just go across the border to the Dominican Republic and get in a round of golf at a luxury resort. The governments are the difference....freedom vs totalitarianism . Ever heard of Papa doc....look him up.
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