I want to share a great experience I recently had at the Bristol NASCAR track. We spend quite a few weekends camping in Bristol and visiting family throughout the year, but never have I seen such an act of selflessness and kindness as I did at the race.
The primary purpose of this letter is to say thank you to the anonymous good Samaritan who turned in my husband’s wallet after the race on Aug. 22. My husband thinks he left it behind on one of the concession stands after paying for a mid-race snack. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize it was missing until waking the next morning. We spent the next 24 stressful hours retracing his steps, reporting his credit cards as lost, filing a lost report at the track and getting new IDs made.
He is an active duty Air Force officer and both his military ID and his driver’s license were in the wallet. On top of all the different forms of identity at stake, he was also upset because the Armani wallet was an anniversary gift from me and contained more than $300 in cash at the time it was lost.
Then, after going through all the motions one goes through upon losing a wallet, we arrived home to a waiting voice mail. Someone had turned his wallet in! As soon as the track staff had confirmation that it was indeed my husband’s wallet, they shipped it overnight to our home. All credit cards, IDs and cash were as he remembered them. Not one dollar was missing from the wallet.
We were both amazed and thankful that good people still do exist in the world. There was no name with the wallet to say who turned it in, but I wanted to write this letter to publicly thank the person who found the wallet and the Bristol track staff for ensuring my husband got his identity back. We had almost lost hope that he would ever see the wallet or its contents again.
I hope whoever the good Samaritan is who found the wallet reads this and knows how thankful we are!
Heather Mueller
Charleston, S.C.
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