Here are my scores from the swap meet yesterday. It was a good day with good finds.
But that's not what this blog post is really about. It's about losing my car key a couple months ago. It was on June 7th.
It was a regular swap meet day, except that when it came time to leave I didn't have my car key. No matter how hard I (and Sweetie) looked, I just didn't have it.
I reported the loss to the Lost and Found people and left my phone number. Landon came with my spare key.
I called the Stadium during the week to see if anybody had turned it in. No luck. It bothered me a lot, mostly because losing the key made me feel old and incompetent.
It woulda cost over $200 to replace it so I never did. Instead, every time we went to the swap meet after that I would always go first to Lost and Found to see if maybe the key was somehow there and to check and see if they still had the scrap piece of paper with my phone number on it in its place on the side of the desk.
Yesterday, for the first time I decided not to check. A few months had already passed after all.
Right away we ran into Len, a regular shopper who's there every Sunday (and Saturday too). I jokingly asked him if he found my key yet. He laughed and said no.
We walked our regular route. We saw the regular vendors.
I decided to get some cucumbers from one of our fave veggie vendors. There were just a few bags left. As I was inspecting one of the bags, something familiar caught my eye.
There on the counter right above the cucumbers, nestled in a shallow plastic container lay my car key.
I was stunned. I almost cried. I might've created a commotion. I'm not sure.
The vendor said that he had found it on the ground months ago and didn't know what else to do except to put it in a container on his counter and hope that the rightful owner would someday come to claim it.
After awhile, I grabbed a bunch of vegetables to buy and thanked him profusely. I gave him two of my mom's crocheted kitchen towels which I happened to have with me.
Maybe I'll bake him something for next time.
I'm still stunned.
16 comments:
Wow! God is Good!
Izsmom
That's kinda what Geri said.
that is so cool!
Ho da lucky!! I lost mine few years ago and never found it. Suspect it fell in rubbish can.Yep, cost $200 replace 😫
Hurray! However, too bad he didn't turn it in to lost and found. Though the joy at finding it after all this time was increased tenfold.
Maybe the vender didn't know there was a lost and found spot for the Swamp Meet area. My son lost his key chain at a suburban KC park during and overnight Scout campout. It had his deceased dog's tags on it. A couple of month's later, the little Ranger's office called based on the phone number on the dog tag. Someone found them in the leaves and took it to the Ranger's office. Linda in Kansas
What a great day it was......... and your noodles !!! w a i t .... you bought "1" onion ???
Isn't it??!!
Reminds me of the time I accidentally threw away (I think) the FOB for my mom's elevator. Was $$$ to replace.
Yah, the build-up. LOL.
The vendor is an immigrant farmer who I'm pretty sure doesn't know about "lost and found". So glad your son's precious key chain got returned.
Ahahahahaha, we usually use sweet onions in our house, but I wanted to support the Laotian couple so I grabbed the one (not sweet) onion, two potatoes (we already had two at home), and a bag of limes (which I already had from cucumber guy). That's kinda why I made corned beef patties last night 'cause I wanted to use one of the potatoes. 😆
i was gonna say why didn't he turn it in to lost and found but others posted possible reason.
isn't there usually a physical key in the key fob? If so, next time take the spare key and have a key shop cut a key. way cheaper than those remotes and keep that as your spare key.
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WOW 🥳 awesome!!!
After months!!
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