Posted on 10/11/2010 5:18:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman, who helped a barbershop owner steal an Adenium plant from a family 20 years ago, bought an Adenium plant and secretly returned it to the family together with an apologising note out of deep regret.
The incident took place in Aulong New Village on 6 October 2010.
According to plant receiver Wu Jiajia, he found a plant and a note left in front of the backdoor of his house when he returned home with his wife and children.
In the note, the person who returned the plant wrote that she was 11 years old and was working in a barbershop when she helped the barbershop owner steal an Adenium plant from his house. She regretted it and wished to apologise to them. Her full name and incomplete identity card number were also written in the note.
As the house owner was not sure whether they had lost an Adenium plant before, he was a bit confused and perplexed.
Wu said that he had a similar experience before when he met a secondary schoolmate by chance many years after they left school. He asked Wu to pass a sum of money to another schoolmate as he had once picked up and took a ringgit note dropped by the schoolmate when they were playing.
"No one knows about it but after more than 20 years later, my schoolmate who took the RM1 note actually returned the money together with interest to our schoolmate who lost the money at that time," Wu said.
He also believed that his schoolmate who returned the money and the woman who returned the plant have regretted what they have done in the past and were trying to make up for their wrongdoings.
"So, my wife and I are glad to accept the returned Adenium plant and we wish the person happiness. At the same time, we hope that she would feel relieved," he added.
better late...
Alcoholic working the steps? Sounds like someones making amends and working a program..
Good for her. We all do stupid things as kids. Its a measure of character that someone would realize that time alone does not absolve one of wrong-doing. This type of character is instilled in people from parents who know that being a parent is teaching values, not simply giving the kid anything he or she wants in order to shut them up.
Her name is Earl-ine.
In 1983, I was a starving college student. One morning, I went out to my car (a '76 Ford Gran Torino) and saw that my nice wire wheel covers were gone. well, back then they were about $100 a set (figure $350 today.) I mourned and yelled for a few minutes, then accepted that I was going to be displaying lug nuts for quite awhile.
Three days later, I went out to my car and saw a large yard waste bag on the hood. I looked inside...there were my wheel covers with a note that said, "Sorry, they didn't fit."
reminds me of the people who stole Mr. Rogers car. After word got out they returned it saying they never would have taken it if they’d known it was his.
I wish more people could experience that same guilt in their lives!
I think there a lot of those cases.
Back around 1970-71, all our Christmas lights were stolen of our house and bushes about 2 weeks before Christmas. They were returned in a bag on our front porch about two weeks after Christmas with no note of explanation. Was always curious who did that and why. We still had a Merry Christmas, hope they did.
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