As regular visitors will be aware, I am a serious booster for our city’s transit system. It is one of the finest systems that it has ever been my privilege to patronize. Having given up my car in 1991, and thus been a daily transit user for almost twenty years, I believe I know whereof I speak. Now, my faith in the system and its workers has been more than vindicated.
A few days before Christmas I went shopping downtown and on the Drive. By the end of the day, I had a raft of packages that I was manhandling. I got them all home safe, only to discover that my shoulder pouch had gone missing. The pouch was worth just a buck or two, but it held my expensive and well-loved camera, my new expensive sunglasses, and my asthma inhaler.
On the days we haven’t been completely snowed in, I have made efforts to visit every store I visited that day to ask if I left my bag there. No luck. However, this morning we phoned Transit Lost & Found and, lo and behold, the pouch was there – and with all its contents! It had been turned in by the driver (operator #50164: if you ever see him or her, give them a pat on the back).
Can’t beat that for good service and honest workers! Thanks to them all!
January 6, 2009 at 11:30 am |
Oh my god that is fantastic news. I can’t believe it. It’s good to know that honesty and good service still excist somewhere! Thank Goodness.
January 7, 2009 at 2:54 pm |
Jak, when I was about 16 I went on a trip to Europe with my family. We were in Dublin, and went out one night to eat, and took a taxi. The next night, we were going somewhere and flagged a taxi. When we got into the cab, the taxi driver held up my purse and said, “Does this belong to any one of you?”
I hadn’t even missed the purse yet. But not only was the driver honest, so were all the other fares he’d shown the purse to and asked about.
Not to mention the fortune of flagging down the exact same taxi in a city the size of Dublin two nights in a row.
January 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm |
Oops…that last post was mine.
Anyway, needless to say it was a feelgood moment.
February 27, 2009 at 12:40 pm |
I am operator #50164.
Thank you for the thank you!
The bag was turned in to me by another passenger; I merely tagged the item with the pertinent details.
The operator who relieved me was the one who actually turned the bag into Lost & Found, so he to (Herman is his name) should be thanked, along with the unknown passenger who could easily have kept the items him/herself.
I’m glad you were reunited with your possessions!
February 27, 2009 at 2:37 pm |
Wow! Thanks for stopping by. I thank you once again and all of the others involved in recovering my stuff!