Kosmic Karma
Hello blogging folk. Apologies for my absence, I have no excuse other than the heat. My office has no air conditioning and no proper windows for opening so when I get home I shower and konck out for the evening. The last thing I feel like doing is sitting in front of a computer again! Then last week I got a dreadful cold. Sitting in a puddle of your own making whilst drinking lemsip and blowing your nose is not how I want to spend the hottest day of July since 1911!
However, last night there was an incident that restored my faith in human nature and I feel compelled to tell you all about it.
I stupidly left my mobile phone sitting on the bench at the station on my way home. The embarrassment, in my defence in six years of owning one I haven’t abandoned it yet so I think I deserve points for that! When I got home the land line rang and it was a man who had picked up my phone and wanted to give it back to me. So, he said he would call me and let me know when he was on his way back from London and that it would be about 9:30. At 9:30 he called and said that he had been sitting on a stationary train for 40 mins and had no idea what time it would be leaving and where did I live. He drove out of his way to Cheam, where I live, and met me and handed my phone over at 11:00 at night!
I was gob-smacked and tearful. For someone to not only do me a favour and return my phone to me but to go out of his way to that extent, well I was speechless. Just as I was beginning to think that people like that didn’t exist one turned up out of the blue. I am now looking for a moment to pay the karma forward so that the cosmic gods don’t fall out with me. Any ideas?
That is awesome. Maybe make a donation to a worthy cause? Sorry, I”m lame, I can’t think of anything else…
Aw, what a nice story!
Once, I put 50p into a chocolate machine and then couldn’t get the little metal door open as the train was coming. When I finally did squeeze my hand in, there were two chocolate bars! AND the freebie one was plain Dairy Milk while the one I had bought was caramel (because Rob wanted it, even though it’s too rich for me). Score! We figured it was make-up karma for all the times Rob has put money in a chocolate machine just to find that it’s broken.
What a wonderful story! There are decent people in the world. :)
By the way, my blog is back up and running. WHOO HOO! You should stop by.
Erin
Ahh don’t ya just love a happy story!
eeek I’m so glad about your phone…
I’d be so stressed if something happened to “my baby” LOL!
Hey! Did you get my updated password, typepad freaked out a week or so back and I e-mailed everyone the new one, if you didn’t get it send me some mail!
xoxo
Katie
I once left my filofax with my bank book everything in it. The railway people rang me up to say someone had handed it in intact!!! I think we see so much bad stuff on the telly we forget that most people are kind generous and good.