Posted on 12/03/2020 6:39:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Christopher Camacho of Ontario, Canada, found a wallet in an old couch and returned it to owner Darcy Major, who last saw it in 1966. Photo by pprasantasahooo/Pixabay.com
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Dec. 2 (UPI) -- An Ontario, Canada, man who lost his wallet 54 years ago had the item returned to him after another man found it in an old couch.
Darcy Major, 86, of Port Dover, said his wallet went missing in 1966, and he never found out what happened to it until Christopher Camacho got in touch with his children.
Camacho found the wallet in an old couch and got Major's name from the documents inside, which included a driver's license, an old check and a dog license.
Camacho wrote in the Currently in Port Dover group on Facebook that he had fished the wallet out of an old couch and was trying to find its owner.
Commenters on the post helped Camacho get in touch with Major's children, who informed their father that his wallet was found.
"It was unreal, where's it been for all those years," Major told the Simcoe Reformer. "It must have been a good couch."
Major said he was grateful to Camacho for tracking him down.
"It's quite a thrill, even though everything is outdated," Major said. "There's honest people out there to return it. He could've put it in the garbage, and it's so nice that there's people like that."
I’ve kept my wallet in my front pants pocket for at least 40 years.
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Wow, you keep your clothes longer than I do, even!
Feel like it sometimes.
Well, if I could just find them, I could have my wallet back.
Guy comes home from church with 2 black eyes. When asked how it happened, he explained that the rather large woman in front of him had her dress wedged into ‘where the Good Lord split ya,’ so, being the good Christian man he was, reached out and gave it a gentle tug. The woman turned around and popped him in the eye.
Okay, says the friend, that explains one shiner. What about the other? “Well,” he said, “I got to thinking maybe that’s where she wanted her dress to be, so I reached out and tucked it right back in.”
You need better friends.
“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them.~Mother Teresa~
Very good.
I wonder what it would take to launch a ‘note in a bottle’ into SPACE?...................
Funny you mention that. I'm a retired chip-maker and some of the chips I helped make in the mid/late sixties are on the Voyager Space Craft that has already left our solar system.
"On 5 November 2019, data from Voyager 2 indicated that it also had entered interstellar space.[3] On 4 November 2019, scientists reported that, on 5 November 2018, the Voyager 2 probe had officially reached the interstellar medium (ISM), a region of outer space beyond the influence of the Solar System, and has now joined the Voyager 1 probe which had reached the ISM earlier in 2012.[4][5] "
I’m sure that if I did it, or even just tried it, I would soon be visited by some government officials of many departments.....................
I lost my virginity on a couch...Haven’t missed it.
I lost mine in the back of a Buick Station Wagon..............
#21 Women must have looked at you and gone wow!.....
I always do the same, and if I'm going to be in a crowded public place, I give the pocket material a twist with the wallet in it to discourage pickpockets.
That wallet is so covered in farts...
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